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Iraqi Americans (Arabic: أمريكيون عراقيون) are American citizens of Iraqi descent. As of 2015, the number of Iraqi Americans is around 145,279, according to the United States Census Bureau .
This is a list of notable Iraqi Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Founded in 2007, we are the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project (IARP), a nonprofit in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We build bridges of communication, understanding, and support between Iraqis and Americans after decades of US-led sanctions, war, and occupation.
Diplomatic relations between Iraq and the United States began when the U.S. first recognized Iraq on January 9, 1930, with the signing of the Anglo-American-Iraqi Convention in London by Charles G. Dawes, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Although the majority of Iraqi Americans dislike Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, they are also growing increasingly distrustful of American policy in the Arab world. As a result, more Iraqi American civic and religious leaders are beginning to address the concerns of their people.
The U.S. invasion in 2003 unleashed a vicious sectarian war that engulfed Iraq. Then militants seized large swaths of territory. Iraqi forces reclaimed their country in intense fighting, but huge challenges remain, including rampant corruption, a lack of basic services, continued violence and more than 1 million people still internally ...
Twenty years ago today, the U.S. bypassed the United Nations and began its invasion of Iraq - a sovereign nation. The pretext for that war was that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction...
The conflict, which officially ended in 2011, has claimed the lives of more than 4,400 U.S. troops and around 300,000 Iraqi civilians, according to Brown University estimates. Death toll...
The Journey from Iraq to America: One Family’s Story. In Turkey, life for an Iraqi refugee leaves much to be desired. Iraqis are not granted refugee status in Turkey and because they are not recognized as refugees, they are not allowed to earn money legally.
In Iraq, it's hard to find a town, a neighborhood, a street, or a family that hasn't been touched by the U.S. invasion 20 years ago and its turbulent aftermath, but some parts of the country...