| GULFWAR | The last crisis over Iraq (4,3) |
| AMNESIA | Failure to recall American Senate brought up over Iraq, oddly (7) |
| SOLDIER | The American ___ community representing the U.S. forces in the Iraq War which was declared as the Time Person of the Year in 2003 |
| ISRAELI | By late in 1948, the ... Army had repelled the attack by the forces of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq a |
| BAGHDAD | The capital of Iraq, on the River Tigris (7) |
| CHILCOT | Who chaired the UK's inquiry into the Iraq War, which recently published its findings? (7) |
| NINEVEH | Ancient capital of Assyria, on the east bank of the Tigris opposite modern-day Mosul, Iraq (7) |
| ENGLAND | Lynndie ___, soldier at the centre of the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal in Iraq (7) |
| THEPOPE | Noted Iraq war critic who recently visited the White House |
| EDMEESE | Rudy Giuliani's replacement on the Iraq Study Group |
| AQUARIA | Answer question over Arabs once Iraq regularly reveals tanks (7) |
| ASSYRIA | Country North of Iraq. Assur is the ancient capital (7) |
| HUSSEIN | Saddam --, the 5th President of Iraq (7) |
| HALABJA | City attacked with chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war |
| KURDISH | Language spoken in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Russia by the world's largest ethnic group without its own country (7) |
| CONYERS | Congressman who introduced a bill to ease sanctions on Iraq |
| ARMYMOM | Recipient of letters from Iraq, often (2 wds.) |
| FAISALS | Grandfather/grandson kings of Iraq |
| WARTORN | Like Iraq in 2006 |
| MIDEAST | Locale of Iraq and Iran |
