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The Iraq national football team were the 2007 AFC Asian Cup Champions after defeating Saudi Arabia in the final, held in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2006, Iraq reached the football final of the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, after defeating former FIFA World Cup semi-finalists South Korea and eventually finished as runners-up, winning silver.
The majority of Iraqis are Muslims, split between Shia and Sunni sects, influencing much of their cultural practices, including art, literature, and daily life. Iraqi Arabs are the largest ethnic group in Iraq, [22] followed by Iraqi Kurds, then Iraqi Turkmen as the third largest ethnic group.
Christianity was brought to Iraq in the 1st century by Thomas the Apostle and Mar Addai (Addai of Edessa) and his pupils Aggai and Mari. Thomas and Addai belonged to the twelve Apostles. [21] Iraq's Eastern Aramaic-speaking Assyrian communities are believed to be among the oldest in the world.
Ammar Rashed has a stack of letters from U.S. troops attesting to his work during some of the most dangerous days of the Iraq War. “You don’t have to keep me and my family suffering for, for ...
Sometimes the hardest part of war is coming home. James Childs, who battles PTSD after serving 33 months in Iraq and Afghanistan, came to the conclusion that life was no longer worth living. And ...
A 2003 CIA Factbook map which shows the distribution of ethnoreligious groups in Iraq. Religion in Iraq dates back to Ancient Mesopotamia , particularly Sumer , Akkad , Assyria and Babylonia between circa 3500 BC and 400 AD, after which they largely gave way to Judaism, followed by Syriac Christianity and later to Islam .
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., says she owes her life to Dr. Adam Hamawy, an American surgeon who provided critical care to her 20 years ago when she was wounded in the Iraq War.
The Jarrar family, while chronicling their daily lives amid the destruction, also provides descriptive analysis of the political climate that resulted from the American occupation of the country. After the fall of Baghdad in 2003, Jarrar worked as the country director of CIVIC Worldwide, the only door-to-door civilian casualties survey in Iraq ...