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Need to update military figures

Compare "The Iraqi Navy is a small force with 1,500 sailors and officers, including 800 Marines, designed to protect shoreline and inland waterways from insurgent infiltration. The navy is also responsible for the security of offshore oil platforms. The navy will have coastal patrol squadrons, assault boat squadrons and a marine battalion.[96] The force will consist of 2,000 to 2,500 sailors by year 2010.[98]" to "As of February 2011, the navy has approximately 5000 sailors and marines which form an Operational headquarters, 5 afloat squadrons, and two marine battalions.^[1]" I see no value to having a prediction from 2007 over far more recent and accurate actual recent figures.

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^ "Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq – February 2006 Report to Congress," (PDF). 17 February 2006. p. 45. Retrieved 26 May 2008.

Local Government in Iraq

Looking at the administrative divisions of Iraq, I see that there are provinces, districts, and subdistricts. But, does Iraq have municipal/local government for its cities and towns? Or are all settlements governed at the subdistrict and district level? There needs to be at least a sentence or two added onto the page about this if it is the latter. If it is the former, there needs to probably be an article on this, or at least a good paragraph of two detailing the aspects of municipal government in Iraq. There is a page of for List of cities in Iraq and List of places in Iraq, but they do not detail what exactly is being measured (i.e. settlements, urban areas, municipal council areas/local governments, etc...) --Criticalthinker (talk) 16:39, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also known as Irak

Iraq is also called Irak. See http://www.thefreedictionary.com/irak . This should be mentioned at the beginning of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrincodi (talk • contribs) 21:40, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

hu

hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.75.255.168 (talk) 01:59, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Under the section titled "Middle Ages" it says, "The Arab Islamic conquest in the mid-7th century AD established Islam in Iraq and saw a large influx of Arabs and Kurds." Please change it to, "The Arab Islamic conquest in the mid-7th century AD established Islam in Iraq and saw a large influx of Arabs." The Kurds are indigenous to the region. They did not arrive with the Islamic conquest because they themselves were subjected to the Islamic empire. Please correct this error. Thank you. 152.75.205.29 (talk) 16:58, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done That makes sense and is in line with the info in Kurds in Iraq. Thank you for pointing this out. --Cerebellum (talk) 12:15, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

pronunciation section

The following...

"In English, it is either /ɪˈrɑːk/ (the only pronunciation listed in the Oxford English Dictionary and the first one in Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary) or /ɪˈræk/ (listed first by MQD), the American Heritage Dictionary, and the Random House Dictionary."

...is not a sentence. Maybe the close-parenthesis after "MQD" was meant to go after "Random House Dictionary"?

[1] "Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq – February 2006 Report to Congress," (PDF). 17 February 2006. p. 45. Retrieved 26 May 2008.

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