Iraq Today.

Iraq is emerging from two waves of sectarian violence, the first in the years following the U.S. invasion, and the second when ISIS, in reality a new manifestation of what had been known as al-Qaeda in Iraq, took and controlled vast swaths of primarily Sunni-majority areas from 2014 to 2017. Baghdad IT is safe to say that Iraq's security situation is the best it has been since the U.S. invasion of 2003. One young demonstrator said that the U.S. deposed the last Iraqi regime, that of Saddam, and now needed to help Iraqis depose the current one. Perhaps surprisingly to some, a similar theme is common in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region, where many people - though perhaps fewer than in Baghdad - insist that life was better under Saddam than it is under the two ruling parties that now govern the region. [Extracted from the article]