Iraq National Library and Archive

The National Library and archive of Iraq (Arabic: دار الكتب والوثائق العراقية, DMG Dār al - Kutub wa-al - Wata ʾ iq al - ʿ Iraqiya; engl: National Library and Archives of Iraq, today also: Iraqi National Library and Archives, abbreviated: INLA ) is the National Library of the Republic of Iraq, based in Baghdad.

The Iraqi National Library in Baghdad was in the Third Gulf War on 13 April 2003, a victim of the flames. The first assumed loss of valuable manuscripts and other historical documents from the period of the Ottoman Empire has subsequently proved to be. Have been destroyed, only younger archival records from the reign of Saddam Hussein. The destruction was caused by arson. Which military unit in Iraq or the Allies was responsible remained unknown.