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The Iraq War documents leak is the disclosure to WikiLeaks of 391,832 [1] United States Army field reports, also called the Iraq War Logs, of the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009 and published on the Internet on 22 October 2010. [2] [3] [4] The files record 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths.
On 18 September 2004 the British Daily Telegraph ran two articles titled "Secret papers show Blair was warned of Iraq chaos" and 'Failure is not an option, but it doesn't mean they will avoid it' by reporter Michael Smith, revealing the contents of six leaked British government documents – labelled "secret" or "confidential" – concerning the lead-up to the war in Iraq.
Basic government services such as the civil service and military continued functioning, but the national political system was in deadlock including in respect of almost all major spending and taxation issues. [6] On 27 October 2022, the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani was approved by the Council of Representatives. [1] [2]
The Coalition Provisional Authority (Arabic: سلطة الائتلاف المؤقتة, romanized: Sultat Alaitilaf Almuaqata; Kurdish: دەسەڵاتی کاتی هاوپەیمانی, romanized: Desteya Demkî ya Hevbendiyê, abbr. CPA) was a transitional government of Iraq established following the invasion of the country on 19 March 2003 by U.S.-led Coalition forces.
Democracy in Iraq is a fledgling process, but Iraq achieved a more democratic approach than most surrounding countries. [1] [2] Iraq has a score of 3.51 of ten on the 2021 The Economist Democracy Index, which is considered authoritarian. Iraq scored 0.362 on the V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index in 2023, ranking 3rd in the Middle East and 115th ...
On 31 August the Protestors broke into the Presidential Palace in the afternoon, initiating a Sit-in in the Palace, soon however many protestors would be shot as they pulled out of the palace, it is unclear who started the fighting first, However, a huge battle broke out between presumably the Mahdi army (or Peace Companies) and several ...
Four senior ISIS leaders were killed in last month's U.S.-Iraqi military raid in western Iraq including the group's top operations leader in Iraq and its chief bombmaker for whom the United States ...
Iraq is a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic.It is a multi-party system whereby the executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers as the head of government, the President of Iraq as the head of state, and legislative power is vested in the Council of Representatives.