This agreement marks another milestone in the history of modern Iraq.
Allen said he had admired the work of Gertrude Bell, the British writer and archeologist who was partly responsible for the creation of modern Iraq in the 1920s.
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But today, we are alone and as the late afternoon sun turns the dull brown mountains a richer, deeper shade of ochre it is time to head down and start the long drive back to Erbil and the complexities of modern Iraq.
Both the Anfal campaign and the Halabja attack, which coincided in 1988, until now, this trauma has shaped the Kurdish posture in modern Iraq to the extent that they are trying to use the current situation to maximize their future possibility of succeeding from Iraq.
The British took over Palestine and three Ottoman provinces of Mesopotamia and created modern-day Iraq.
In modern times, Iraq has faced hardships most nations cannot fathom.
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Weiss is dusting off evidence in the region known as the Fertile Crescent, including much of modern-day Iraq and Syria, indicating that a human revolution in irrigated agriculture occurred after an extended drought and cold spell.
Although Baathist propaganda is out, so is most of the modern history of the Middle East that has affected Iraq.
Indeed, the Iraq war is the first conflict in modern history where the U.S. having complied with the laws of war by promptly prosecuting American troops believed to have violated those laws did not bring to justice a single one of the hundreds of captured enemy combatants who have killed Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and contractors.
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Because the modern terrorist cell, be it in Saudi Arabia or Iraq, needs more.
Even if Iraq spurns this extraordinary opportunity to mold a modern, democratic nation, our war against Islamic fanaticism need not sustain a fatal blow.
In the opposite end are Muslim faces in the crowd of those rallying in support of democracy and the modern world as in Turkey and Lebanon, Indonesia and Iraq, or forced into silence as in Iran.
Large parts of Siberia, Iraq and Saudi Arabia have not even been explored with modern kit.
The change is an acknowledgment that women on modern battlefields already are in the fight 152 women have died in Iraq and Afghanistan and that military rules need to be updated to reflect realities of the current-day war zones.
The video was a striking artifact an unmediated representation of the ambiguities and cruelties of modern warfare and he hoped that its release would touch off a worldwide debate about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But today the city that has the feel of a modern boom town as savvy investors have understood that the Kurdish region is way more stable than the rest of Iraq which in turn is still sadly struggling to throw off its reputation for sectarian violence and political instability.
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