What best characterizes iraq and afghanistan today?

Iraq and Afghanistan are both countries that have it really bad nowadays. These two countries have very unstable governments. Both of them are in ruins after the wars they had. There is still lot of foreign military forces to keep things under control, at least as much as ti is possible. Both countries still have terrorist organization which large followings, and there are terrorist attacks very often. The future of these countries is also not certain, as there are groups of people in both of them that want to separate and create independent countries.

"they had a large area of land that they owned."