Modern Iraq

Out of the Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul, Britain assembled a new state, and Iraqis have been contesting its shape ever since — through monarchy and revolution, the Ba'ath and Saddam Hussein, a generation of wars, and the long struggle to rebuild. Across a century, the land of the world's first cities has sought to become a modern nation. Slide across the history of Iraq from its founding to today.