It was absent from the 1952 Summer Olympics and boycotted the 1956 games over opposition to the Suez Crisis.

Iraq is one of the non-African countries that joined the 1976 boycott, the others being Afghanistan, Albania, Burma (Myanmar), Guyana, Sri Lanka and Syria.

On April 9, 2003, the National Olympic Committee of Iraq building in Baghdad was damaged in looting and fires from looters.

Iraq's Olympic program recovered in time to compete in the Athens Olympics the following year, and the Iraq football team almost won a bronze medal but were defeated by Italy in the bronze medal match.

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