Time: October 4, 2018.
Local time in Baghdad: 13:56.
As the capital of Iraq, Baghdad straddled both banks of the Tigris River and lay only thirty kilometers from the Euphrates.
By the standards of the ordinary world, Baghdad was one of the major centers of early human civilization.
With its beautiful scenery and countless unsolved historical mysteries, the city was shrouded in an ancient, mysterious veil.
Unfortunately, on March 20, 2003, the United States bypassed the United Nations and launched a unilateral military strike against Iraq on the grounds that it possessed weapons of mass destruction.
While subjecting the people of that country to more than a decade of war, the U.S. military also destroyed a vast—an overwhelming—number of historical ruins and cultural relics. This beautiful city suffered especially heavily under the bombardment.
Of course, the real reason for the U.S. invasion had nothing to do with "weapons of mass destruction," nor was it for democracy and freedom.
The Iraq War caused one hundred thousand deaths and displaced tens of millions of people. It was truly all for "democracy and freedom," huh~.
The real reason was to safeguard the status of the "U.S. dollar."
Even though Iraqi President Afford Masoom had signed with the UNSC, he had also signed Umbrella's Confidentiality Agreement, allowing Iraq to receive more financial and technological support.
But a president did not represent every faction in a war-torn country, especially the warlords who controlled real power and the oil magnates who controlled its resources.
Because of war, ethnic hatred, and various other reasons, along with the deliberate misinformation spread by the warlords and magnates, the UNSC did not have much control over the Middle East.
At that moment, Baghdad's streets were filled with large numbers of modern tanks, armored vehicles, and other heavy equipment, as well