Main article: Politics of IraqBaghdad Convention Center, the current meeting place of the Council of Representatives of Iraq.The federal government of Iraq is defined under the current Constitution as ...
On March 20, 2003, a United States-organized coalition invaded Iraq, under the pretext that Iraq had failed to abandon its weapons of mass destruction program in violation of U.N. Resolution 687. This ...
In 1958 a coup d'etat known as the 14 July Revolution led to the end of the monarchy. Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim assumed power, but he was overthrown by Colonel Abdul Salam Arif in a Februar ...
The Guadalajara Cartel was benefited by the CIA for having connections with the Honduran drug lord Juan Matta-Ballesteros, a CIA asset, who was the head of SETCO, an airline used for smuggling drugs i ...
Main article: List of journalists killed in MexicoIn the first years of the 21st century, Mexico was considered the most dangerous country in the world to practice journalism, according to groups like ...
By the end of 2013, the estimated number of killed in the Mexican drug warfare was topping 111,000 people.Through 2012, the number of killed by November was at 18,161.Through 2013, the number of kille ...
Although violence between drug cartels had been occurring long before the war began, the government held a generally passive stance regarding cartel violence in the 1990s and early 2000s. That changed ...
The Juárez Cartel controls one of the primary transportation routes for billions of dollars' worth of illegal drug shipments annually entering the United States from Mexico. Since 2007, the Juárez C ...
The birth of all Mexican drug cartels is traced to former Mexican Judicial Federal Police agent Miguel ?ngel Félix Gallardo ("The Godfather"), who founded the Guadalajara Cartel in 1980 and controll ...
Given its geographic location, Mexico has long been used as a staging and transshipment point for narcotics and contraband between Latin America and U.S. markets. Mexico supplied alcohol to the United ...
Throughout the entire Iraq war, there have been human rights abuses on all sides of the conflict.Iraqi government The use of torture by Iraqi security forces.Iraqi police from the Interior Ministry ac ...
For coalition death totals see the infobox at the top right. See also Casualties of the Iraq War, which has casualty numbers for coalition nations, contractors, non-Iraqi civilians, journalists, media ...
On 30 April, the United Kingdom formally ended combat operations. Prime Minister Gordon Brown characterized the operation in Iraq as a "success story" because of UK troops' efforts. Britain handed con ...
Speaking before the Congress on 8 April 2008, General David Petraeus urged delaying troop withdrawals, saying, "I've repeatedly noted that we haven't turned any corners, we haven't seen any lights at ...
By March 2008, violence in Iraq was reported curtailed by 40–80%, according to a Pentagon report. Independent reports raised questions about those assessments. An Iraqi military spokesman claimed tha ...
