id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt mdp.39015018502909 Metz, Helen Chapin Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. Iraq, a country study Federal Research Division, Library of Congress ; edited by Helen Chapin Metz 1990 .txt text/plain 94082 6439 61 Iraq experienced various other foreign rulers, including the Mongols, the Ottoman Turks, and the British under a mandate established after World War I. The Baath high command succeeded in controlling Iraq's military institution to a degree that surprised foreign observers. appeared to be gaining control of substantial areas of Iraqi territory, such as Al Faw Peninsula in the south and the northern mountainous Kurdish area-Iraq unleashed a barrage of missiles against Iraq was eager to have Iran allow the UN to begin clearing sunken ships from the Shatt al Arab so as to permit Iraqi access for Iraqi political life that were to continue until the 1958 revolution; they chose Faisal as Iraq's first King; they established an between Sunnis (see Glossary) and Shias; the latter group, a minority in the Arab world as a whole, constitutes a majority in Iraq. ./cache/mdp.39015018502909.pdf ./txt/mdp.39015018502909.txt