This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 28 PM Gaylani and pan-Arab Golden Square officers decided to go to war with UK Asked Axis for military aid again

 

1922 UK Iraq Commissioner Cox said King Faisal racially weak for disagreeing with him

This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 27 Pres Arif said Kurds would never have autonomy in Iraq

 

1916 UK offered Ottomans all the artillery and 1 mil pounds in return for letting British forces

leave Kut UK forces had been under siege in Kut since Dec Ottomans refused offer

This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 26 PM Gaylani asked Axis for aid to fight British

 

1916 Gen Townshend cmdr at Kut wrote Turks about surrendering Townshend told to offer

money to allow his troops to go Turks wanted unconditional surrender

Review Aaron Klieman, Foundations of British Policy In The Arab World: The Cairo Conference of 1921, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970

Klieman, Aaron, Foundations of British Policy In The Arab World: The Cairo Conference of 1921, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970

 

At the end of World War I the English found themselves in possession of a large amount of Ottoman territory. London had made various promises to different groups which were often contradictory because it had no strategy for the region. In 1921 Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill organized a meeting in Egypt to attempt to find a solution to all these issues. The Cairo Conference came to shape much of the modern Middle East. That is the topic of Aaron Klieman’s Foundations of British Policy In The Arab World: The Cairo Conference of 1921. The author argues that Churchill was able to create a short term success for the British Empire which eventually collapsed.

This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 25 British Mandate in Iraq created Was start of Iraq as a nation state

 

1920 San Remo Agreement created British Mandate in Iraq France agreed to give up Mosul vilayet

in return for oil concessions in Iraq

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This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 24 Kurds announced tentative deal with Saddam for Kurdish autonomy Would lead to Kurdistan Regional Government

 

1916 British attempt to re-supply besieged garrison at Kut failed Last attempt to relieve

forces there

Trump Administration Increasing Pressure On Iraq To Cut Ties With Iran But Might Close Embassy In Baghdad

The United States is starting a new effort to get Iraq to cut its ties with Iran as part of President Trump’s Maximum Pressure campaign. At the same time the White House may close its embassy in Baghdad showing that Iraq is not a priority. This is another sign of the dysfunction within the American government.