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 Persia. 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.

Iraq is a developing parliamentary democracy composed of 18 governorates (known as muhafadhat). The capital city, Baghdad, is in the center-éast. Iraq's rich history dates back to ancient Mesopotamia. The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is identified as the Fertile Crescent—the cradle of civilization—and the birthplace of writing. During its long history, Iraq has been the center of the Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Abbasid empires, and part of the Achaemenid, Macedonian, Parthian, Umayyad, Sassanid, Ottoman and British empires.

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.

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Bacaan salajengna 
 Interview with Refugees International's Séan Garcia on the plight of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees  
 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 EconomistWarta 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 

Mésopotamia
Arab
Républik konstitusional
Nagara nu basana Basa Arab
Nagara anggota Liga Arab
Liga Arab
Nagara di Wétan Deukeut
Wewengkon nu dikawasa ku militér