After not participating in the Iran-Israel War pro-Tehran factions in Iraq have started targeting the Kurds in July. At the start of the month there was also a rare incident by the Islamic State.
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1914 US consulate in Baghdad reported Sayid Talib and Ottoman forces attacked Sheikh
Ajaimi of Montafiq Confederation in Zubayr Basra vilayet Talib won battle and took town Gave Talib de facto control of all of Basra Led to dismissal of Ottoman governor of vilayet
1915 US consulate report Worried that sectarian war might start with Shiites turning on
Sunni Ottomans due to troubles in Karbala and Najaf
1923 1st Parliamentary elections resumed after protests by Shiite clergy led to delay Assembly
wouldn’t meet until Mar 1924
Lowry, Richard, Marines in the Garden of Eden, The True Story of Seven Bloody Days in Iraq, Berkeley Publishing Group, 2006
Nasiriya was the biggest battle the Americans fought during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Initially the Marines didn’t think the Iraqis would put up much resistance but it turned into a week-long operation. Richard Lowry tells the most comprehensive story of what happened.
869 Abbasid Caliph Mutazz confronted by Turkish soldiers who wanted to be paid Mutazz beaten
and forced to resign Muhtadi became new caliph
(Musings On Iraq review when baghdad ruled the muslim world, the rise and fall of islam’s greatest dynasty)
After not participating in the Iran-Israel War pro-Tehran factions in Iraq have started targeting the Kurds in July. At the start of the ...