Iraq

by Bill Thompson and Dorcas Thompson

Between 2003 and 2011, the United States maintained a large military presence in Iraq in an attempt to build a stable, democratic society in that country. That effort, most experts agree, has failed. Today Iraq is a country bitterly divided by civil war. The conflict has emerged along sectarian lines: members of Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority have joined with Islamist rebels from Syria to form the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1422234428
• ISBN13: 9781422234426
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12