1946 Iraq-Turkey Friendship Treaty
Would cooperate over Tigris and Euphrates
Security
education communication economies
1947 Sayid Salih Jabr became
premier 1st Shiite PM of Iraq
1982 Saddam offered to withdraw to international border
between Iran-Iraq Rejected by
Iran
1984 US intel found Iraq buying equipment from West German
company to make
chemical
weapons W. Germany denied story
1984 US intel reported Iraq had 5 sites producing chemical
weapons for Iran-Iraq War
1987 Ali Hassan al-Majid given special powers over all govt
agencies in northern
Iraq to
deal with Kurds
1991 Iraqi troops recaptured Kirkuk from Kurdish rebels
1991 Iraqi troops captured Tanuma, Basra from rebels
1994 Saddam became prime minister of Iraq
2002 Gen Franks briefed military service chiefs on Iraq war
planning
2003 UK Embassy in Washington Bush mad at press reports
invasion not going
according
to plan
2003 1st Suicide bomber in Iraq war hits US
checkpoint in Najaf killing 4 soldiers
2003 Iraq VP Ramadan said suicide bombers would become
routine in Iraq and
threatened
England and US with them
2003 VP Ramadan said that foreign fighters had arrived in
Iraq to help defend it against
Americans
2003 Iraqi govt removed commander of Iraqi air defense in
Baghdad after
missiles
misfired and hit the capital
2003 Iraq fired 2 SCUDS at Kuwait but shot down by US
Patriot missiles
2006 US intel report said 1707 Sunni and Shiite families
moved in Baghdad after
Askari bombing
Mahdi Army kidnapping and executing people
2007 National Police kidnapped 5 British security guards
from Eastern Baghdad
2007 New US Amb Ryan Crocker arrived in Iraq
2007 Suicide bombings in Baghdad kill 82
2008 Fighting between ISF and Mahdi Army continued in
Karbala, Hillah, Baghdad,
Basra
2008 Mahdi Army fired rockets at Green Zone again in
retaliation for Charge of Knights
2008 Maliki delegation met with Sadr in Iran to work out
ceasefire in Basra
2008 Sadr said he was talking with Ayatollah Sistani to
negotiate ceasefire with Maliki
2008 Sadr also called for Qais Khazali and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq
to rejoin his organization
2009 Provincial election results announced State of Law won
126 of 440 seats 28%
ISCI went
from 200 to 50 seats
2009 Maliki govt said in talks with Asaib Ahl Al-Haq to get
5 British hostages it
kidnapped
released
2009 PKK rejected call by Pres Talabani and Pres Barzani to
disarm
2009 Sahwa in Dora, Baghdad protested over not getting paid
by govt
2009 US and ISF disarmed Sahwa in Fadhil, Baghdad after
fighting broke out day before
when its commander arrested
2010 Peshmerga withdrew from Jalawla, Diyala after argument
over control of
disputed
areas with Baghdad
2011 Maliki presented nominees for security ministries never
filled after 2010
elections
2011 Najmuddin Karim elected governor of Kirkuk
2011 ISI attacked Tikrit provincial council building leaving
150 casualties
2011 Parliament human rights committee found chronic abuses
in Diyala prisons
including torture
2011 Opposition parties boycotted KRG parliament because
govt hadn’t responded
to protest
demands
2011 Turkish Premier Erdogan went to Kurdistan first Turkish
leader to visit region
2015 Most Hashd had pulled out of Tikrit op to protest US
airstrikes
2015 Abadi met with Hashd leaders to talk about Tikrit
offensive and their
protests
over US airstrikes
2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq said it would not join future ops in
Anbar and Ninewa
if US
involved
2016 Deadline set by Sadr for Abadi to announce new technocratic
cabinet
2016 State of Law said Abadi ready to present candidates for
cabinet but
ruling
parties were not cooperating
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