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Across 2. Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale especially caused by fire or nuclear war. 3. A movement for the re-establishment, development, and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. 6. Dividing into parts. 8. The name used for the military operation in which international armed forces, including British and US troops, attacked Iraq in the Gulf War.

Down 1. A protracted military conflict that began in 2003 with an attack by a coalition of of forces led by the United States and that resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. 4. A war between the forces of the United Nations, led by the United States , and those of Iraq, that followed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's invasion in August 1990. 5. A former Turkish empire that was founded about 1300 by Osman and reached its greatest territorial extent under Suleiman in the 16th century, collapsed after WW1. 7. Stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and is an extremist militant group that rules by Wahhabi/Salafi law.