Irak

**Républik Irak**, biasana katelah **Irak** (Basa Arab: , IPA: ), nyaéta hiji nagara di Wétan Tengah nu ngampar lolobananana di tungtung kulon kaler Pagunungan Zagros-, bagéan wetan Gurun Siria sarta bagéan kaler Gurun Arabia. Irak diwatesan ku Kuwait jeung Saudi Arabia di  béh kidul, Jordania di kulon, Suriah di kulon kaler, Turki di  béh kaler sarta Iran di wetaneunnana. Irak boga bagéan basisir nu heureut di Umm Qasr di Teluk Pérsia. Aya dua walungan nu ngalir: Tigris jeung Éfrat. Dua walungan ieu nyababkeun lemah Irak bisa dipaké tatanen, patukang tonggong jeung lanskap gurun nu nutupan lolobana wewengkon di Wétan Tengah.

Irak mangrupikeun démokrasi parleménter ngembang anu diwangun ku 18 kagubernuran (katelah *muhafadhat*). Ibu kotana, Baghdad, aya di tengah-wétan. Sajarah euyeub Irak balik deui ti jaman Mesopotamia kuno. Wewengkon antara walungan Tigris jeung Éfrat dikenal salaku Bulan Sabit Subur, tempat lahirna paradaban jeung tulisan. Dina sajarahna anu panjang, Irak parantos janten puseur kakaisaran Akkadia, Assyria, Babylonia sareng Abbasiyah, sarta bagian ti kawasaan kakaisaran Akhemenia, Makedonia, Parthia, Umayyah, Sassania, Utsmaniyah sareng Britania Raya.

Since an invasion in 2003, a multinational coalition of forces, mainly American and British, has occupied Iraq. The invasion has had wide-réaching consequences: increased civil violence, political bréakdown, the removal and execution of former présidént Saddam Hussein, and national problems in the development of political balance, economy, infrastructure, and use of the country's huge reserves of oil. According to the 2007 Failed States Index, produced by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace, Iraq has recently emerged as the world's second most unstable country, after Sudan.

## Tempo ogé 
## Rujukan 
## Bacaan salajengna 
* Interview with Refugees International's Séan Garcia on the plight of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees http://www.epic-usa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=2262 
* Shadid, Anthony 2005. *Night Draws Near*. Henry Holt and Co., NY, USA. ISBN 0-8050-7602-6
* Hanna Batatu, "The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq", Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978
* Iraq was one of the major settings for the John J. Rust science fiction novel "Epsilon"
* A Dweller in Mesopotamia , being the adventures of an official artist in the garden of Eden, by Donald Maxwell, 1921. *(a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries; DjVu & layered PDF  format)*
* By Desert Ways to Baghdad , by Louisa Jebb (Mrs. Roland Wilkins) With illustrations and a map, 1908 (1909 ed). *(a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries; DjVu & layered PDF  format)*

## Tumbu luar 
**Pamaréntah**
* Iraqi Government official government site
* New Iraqi government structure (PDF)  (As of July 17, 2006)
* Kurdistan Regional Government 
* Ministry of Industry and Minerals

*Sawangan*'
* *Encarta Encyclopedia* 
* Baghdad's Golden Period
* al-Bab - *Iraq* 
* Encyclopaedia Britannica *Iraq* Country Page
* BBC News Country Profile - *Iraq*
* CIA World Factbook - *Iraq* 
* US State Department - *Iraq* includes Background Notes, Country Study and major reports
* Read Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding Iraq 
* Iraq Country Profile from Reuters AlertNet
* Country Briefing: Iraq from The Economist

**Warta**
* Focus on Iraq  Daily News on Iraq
* Iraq News and Iraqi views  from Electronic Iraq
* News in Depth  from the Financial Times
* Diplomacy Monitor-Iraq 
* IPS Inter Press Service  Independent news about Iraq
* Iraqis react with joy, anger to Hussein death sentence CNN story on Hussein's death sentence
* Hometown Baghdad  Documentary series shot by an all-Iraqi crew. Tells the stories of three young péople trying to survive in Baghdad.

**Lianna**
* Operation Iraqi Children
* Iraq Image, a cultural resource on Iraq cities and locations
* Juan Cole, a léading scholar and public intellectual
* The Ground Truth Project —A series of exclusive interviews and other resources capturing the voices of Iraqis, aid workers, military personnel and others who have spent significant time on-the-ground in Iraq.
* Alternate wiki article about Iraq 
* Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)—A Washington DC-based nonprofit organization promoting a free and secure Iraq
* Amnesty International Report on Iraq
* Internal Displacement in Iraq - Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
* Coalition Provisional Authority Now-defunct occupation authority; site is archived
* Iraq Law  from the University of Pittsburgh’s Jurist project
* 1900–2000 a history of Iraq
* US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq 
* Iraqi Familiarization Guide  - *(546 kilobyte PDF file)*
* Short Guide to Iraq (WWII U.S. Military Guide)
* Charity Helping the People of Iraq