The history of education in the Republic of Iraq

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Iraqi educational system crushed under embargo: The Baghdad Observer, 10 December 1997. The past six years have witnessed an unprecedented halt in the growth of basic educational services and a stagnation of the educational facilities. The halt in implementing educational plans and the new drop-out phenomenon were the effects of the US-led war in 1991 and the continuation of the trade sanctions.
Iragi schools registering high drop-out rates: By Ahmed Yassin, The Baghdad Observer, 9 June 1998. Lack of educational aids and the hard economic situation caused by the sanctions made the educational sector unable to meet the ambitions of a large part of students, forcing them to desert schools to supplement their families& livings.
Facilities in Baghdad University are worse than in Africa: By Anton La Guardia, The Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2001. Iraqis once prided themselves on being the Germans of the Arab World, with a standard of higher education approaching Western levels. Iraq is the Arab country that came closest to developing a nuclear bomb. But now, after the war and a decade of sanctions, the facilities at Baghdad University are poorer than those of many African universities.