Iraq

Iraq is a country in the Middle East (or Western Asia), sharing borders with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Jordan and Turkey. It has two main rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. The region was known as Mesopotamia, and the civilisations which populated it as far back as 5,000 BCE were responsible for a lot of early intellectual culture.

Iraq is currently in the process of transition from rule by the United States and it's allies in the Coalition of the Willing through to giving power to the Iraqi Provisional Authority. Before the current conflict started on the 20th of March, 2003, Iraq was ruled by the now deposed and executed Saddam Hussein.