the 2005 Operation Iron Hammer, aimed to clear Al-Qaeda in Iraq from the Hai Al Becker region in western Iraq, resulted in no reported casualties and no use of deadly force?
thousands of Flat Daddies, life-size photo cutouts of American soldiers deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan, have been created to help families cope with their deployment?
a major flood in the Tigris in 1936 caused the building site of the Kut Barrage in Iraq to be flooded entirely so that construction had to be temporarily halted?
Sarkis Soghanalian, the "Cold War's largest arms merchant", was backed by the CIA and was the primary private arms dealer to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war?
Omar Hayssam, a Syrian-born Romanian financier, was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison after a court found him guilty of masterminding the kidnap of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005?
Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski was a policy analyst at the Pentagon for four and a half years before retiring and becoming a vocal critic of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq?
James Bond author Ian Fleming suggested that Dame Violet Dickson should write her autobiography while he was researching a book on Kuwait, and that her autobiographical book was eventually published but his never was?
in Kuwait, the freedom of the press is restricted mostly by self-censorship rather than active government action?
the Law Library of Congress created the Global legal information network in 1993 to provide free access to an online searchable full text database of international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws, from many countries, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Peru, and Romania?
Salt is an ancient agricultural town in west-central Jordan, famous for the quality of its grapeharvest, and therefore speculated to be the root for the English word sultana?