Iraq

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The most popular sport is football, known as soccer to some. Also they have basketball, swimming, weightlifting, boxing, bodybuilding, and tennis.

Iraq has a rather intersting history of football. For example in the Quarter-Final 1912 World Cup the team turned on their captain and beat him to death, the captain being Stuart Carle. They later won that cup.

During the first gulf way, he went over to Iraq to meet Saddam and negotiate their release.

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The United States, along with a coalition of allies, invaded Iraq in March 2003 and removed Saddam Hussein from power. The invasion was primarily justified by the U.S. government on the grounds of eliminating weapons of mass destruction and addressing concerns over terrorism. Following the invasion, Saddam Hussein was captured, tried, and executed in 2006. The military intervention had significant and lasting impacts on Iraq and the region.

Iraq was never a democracy prior to the 2006 Constitution written with US assistance. It had always been some form of authoritarian regime, be it a kingdom, sultanate, or subject to military rule.

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Currently, as of June 2016, Iraq is in the midst of a civil war between the Republic of Iraq and the Islamic State. At the same time, the nominally Republican territory of the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq has effectively broken away from the Republic of Iraq as an independent-in-all-but-name country of Iraqi Kurdistan. However, Iraqi Kurdistan continues to be engaged in the War Against Islamic State.

The Republic of Iraq is the result of the US-led constitutional reforms in 2006, which led to the Shiite majority electorally coming to power. Because of the Prime Ministry of Nouri al-Maliki and his successor, the country has taken a strongly Shiite sectarian outlook, making life difficult for Sunnis under the Republics control. As the Iraqi Army has repeatedly found it difficult to defeat Islamic State, Shiite militias and Iranian Special Forces have been in the Republic to help Iraq make gains. However, these militias also terrorize the local populace and harangue religious minorities, sexual minorities, Iraqis who assisted the US occupation in some way, and Secular or Sunni Muslims. With the hope of not losing Iraqi Kurdistan as an ally, the Republic maintains a good relationship with the Kurds and "permits" their functional independence.

Iraqi Kurdistan is effectively the union of the three major Kurdish provinces and the Kurdish-majority regions in Iraq captured by the Peshmerga or Kurdish Army. The Kurds have managed to create a pluralistic state that permits many religions, but are hesitant about giving political autonomy to any of the religious minorities located within the state. Conditions in the major cities of Kurdistan like Hewler/Erbil tend to be relative safe, punctuated by occasional bombings. However, because of political disagreements between Iraqi Kurdistan and the Kurdish militants in Syria (YPG Rojava) and the Kurdish militants in Turkey (PKK), the relations between the groups have some tension. The government in Kurdistan seems to be a hybrid between democracy and nepotism, with most leaders coming from the Barzani or Talabani Kurdish families.

Islamic State is the "country" that seeks to create a worldwide Sunni Caliphate, a theocratic country ruled by religious Sunni Islamic Law. As Fundamentalist Sunnis, Islamic State holds that Shiite Islam (dominant in Iraq) and Alawite Islam (politically powerful in Syria) are heresies and publicly proclaim "takfir" (blasphemer) against them. Islamic State's opposition to the Kurds is similarly based in Kurdish secularism and religious pluralism. Life is hard for people under Islamic State occupation, especially religious and sexual minorities, but it is still difficult for Sunnis as well. The Islamic State operates like a mafia, stealing property and commandeering people's skills for its own use. Sunnis in Islamic State often contend that even with the repression of Islamic State, they are probably treated better there than at the whims of the Shiite militias operating in the Republic of Iraq, so it is hard for the Republic of Iraq to gain their loyalty.

One of the official goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 was to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), which were believed to pose a threat to regional stability and global security. The operation aimed to dismantle the regime of Saddam Hussein, thereby promoting democracy and ensuring the safety of the Iraqi people. Additionally, it sought to combat terrorism and prevent the proliferation of WMDs in the Middle East.

Iraq was expected to honor the sovereignty of Kuwait and if Iraq did not, the United Nations would do what ever was necessary to protect Kuwait. The stances of both Iraq and the UN resulted in the Gulf War.

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Answer 1
Cairo has been an important capital of the earlier Muslim Province of Egypt. It has also been a famous place of learning and trade centre.

Baghdad had been the Capital of Abbasid Caliphate for many centuries. It has seen the Golden period of Islam. It had been the most important centre of culture, arts and learning.

Cordoba had been the capital city of Umayyad Caliphate for many centuries.
It had been the most important centre of culture, arts, and learning during a period when most of Europe was called wild, wild West.

Answer 2
The three cities were the capitals of the Fatimid (Cairo), Umayyad (II) (Cordoba), and Abbassid (Baghdad) Caliphates. In each were established great universities, important mosques, large markets, and huge bureaucratic centers.

The modern country of Iraq is a result of the British Empire and how the territories of the Ottoman Empire were divided after World War I. In 1919, the British established the Class A Mandate for Iraq. The British installed a Hashemite monarchy in Iraq and the country was given nominal independence in 1932, but British troops were still stationed in the country. In 1941, Iraqi Arab Nationalist leaders (Rashid al-Gaylani and the Golden Square) ejected the British and the Iraqi Hashemite monarchy for short while, before they both returned later in the year. In 1947, British troops began their withdrawal, which finalized in 1954.

The monarchy was overthrown in 1958 by General Abd el-Karim Qasim who ruled Iraq completely independently of the British for the first time in Iraq's history. Iraq was ruled by military generals like Qasim until 1968. At that point, the Ba'athists led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr performed a coup d'état and established the Ba'athist Iraqi State, which was first ruled by al-Bakr and then by his lieutenant Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq until 2003, when he was removed by the US-led Coalition and current Republic of Iraq was instated in 2006. Iraq is currently considered a failed state by many in political circles since the Shiite-majority government does not effectively exert control over both the Kurdish Regional Government in the North and the Islamic State Government in the northwest.

Operation Iraqi Freedom was launched in March 2003 primarily to dismantle the regime of Saddam Hussein, eliminate Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), and combat terrorism. The U.S. and its allies aimed to promote democracy and stability in Iraq and the broader Middle East. The operation was controversial, as the existence of WMDs was later disputed, leading to significant debate about the war's justification and consequences.

Theoretically, Iraqi citizens have the right to vote on their politicians, but much more of the Iraqi political process is controlled by political gangs and offset by the current war with Islamic State. Iraqi Kurdistan is de facto independent and the people there have much more relevance on political issues, but Iraqi Kurdistan is more-or-less under one-party control from the PUK.