1978 Pres Assad visited Baghdad to talk about unifying Iraq
and Syria Issued
unification
declaration
1980 Iraq crossed Shatt al-Arab and took city center in
Khorramshahr1984 US Info Service reopened office in Baghdad Closed since 1958 in first step to
reestablish
formal relations between US & Iraq
2002 Pentagon's Policy Counterterrorism Group briefed Rumsfeld on
Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2002 Rumsfeld told press Policy Counterterrorism Group was
not an intel unit
2002 Intel officials complained to press that Pentagon
politicizing intel on Iraq
2003 US secured $13 bil in aid and loans from allies for
Iraq at Madrid conference
2005 Palestine Hotel and Sheraton Ishtar Hotel in Baghdad
hit by truck bombs
2014 Babil’s Jurf al-Sakhr finally cleared after a dozen
attempts All civilians forced
out of city
and have not been allowed to return since
View the Iraq History Timeline
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