During the fourth week of November the Islamic State once again disappeared from Iraq while incidents by the Islamic Resistance also fell off.
Iraq News, Politics, Economics, Society
1920 US Consul in Baghdad said England hadn’t taken any serious steps to create an independent
Iraqi govt
1915 Retreating British force attacked by pursuing Ottomans at Um at Tubul after loss at Battle of
Ctesiphon/Salman Pak
Pritchard, Tim, Ambush Alley, The Most Extraordinary Battle of The Iraq War, Ballantine Books, 2005
Tim Pritchard’s Ambush Alley, The Most Extraordinary Battle Of The Iraq War is one of those books that you can’t put down once it gets going. It covers a battalion of Marines who attacked Nasiriya during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Americans weren’t expecting any resistance but found themselves in one of the most intense battles of the entire conflict. The author does a fantastic job describing the drama that ensued.
1914 Gen Barrett and Sir Percy Cox asked that UK occupation of Basra be announced as
permanent believing it would sway Arabs to UK side Request turned down
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1623 Safavids took Baghdad after son of governor betrayed him Tortured and killed Sunnis and
destroyed Sunni mosques and shrines
During the fourth week of November the Islamic State once again disappeared from Iraq while incidents by the Islamic Resistance also fell of...