1941 London ordered India to send forces to Shaiba air base
in Basra and Basra
City
1941 British expeditionary force put together in India to be
sent to Iraq to deal
with
pro-German PM Gaylani
1941 PM Gayalni convened parliament and asked it to pick new
Regent Selected
Sharif
Sharaf veteran of Arab revolt and relative of Hashemite family
1941 PM Gaylani gave speech at parliament that his govt would
honor Anglo-Iraq Treaty
of 1930 to
stall British action against him
1941 Hitler decided to give military aid to Iraq
1941 Italian ambassador to Iraq said Golden Square coup sign
Iraq believed Axis was
winning WW2
and would soon be in Middle East
1968 Arif said Iraqi National Oil Company would develop
North Rumaila oil field
without the
Iraqi Petroleum Company
1969 1st Spring Festival held in Mosul to
highlight ancient Iraqi history as part of
Baath
campaign to create unified national identity
1982 Syria closed Iraqi pipeline to Mediterranean to help
Iran in war Cut Iraq oil exports
to just
600,000 bar/day
1982 Syria closing pipeline led Iraq to settle border
disputes with Jordan Turkey Saudi
Arabia to
build land routes for its oil
1983 Iran launched Op Wa al-Fajr 1 Attacked Ain al-Qaws with
goal of cutting Baghdad-
Basra highway in Maysan using human
waves Captured 69 sq mi of Iranian territory
1986 Iraq’s 4th attempt to free Fao Peninsula from Iran
failed
1988 Iran started Op Bait al-Moqaddas 5 in Panjwin,
Kurdistan Meant to draw Iraqi forces
away
from south Didn't work
from south Didn't work
1990 UK seized parts for Iraq’s supergun
1991 US ordered Iraq to end all military action in northern
Iraq above 38th parallel
Northern no
fly zone created
2001 1st CIA report that Iraq tried to buy
aluminum tubes for centrifuges and sign Iraq
renewed
nuclear program Didn’t provide any analysis for claim
2001 CIA report said aluminum tubes were step backwards from
centrifuge designs Iraq
working on
before Gulf War
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2002 Blair told parliament Saddam was threat to his people
and region and
was working
on WMD
2003 Saudis called on Saddam to step down to end war
2003 Iraq’s 5th Corps surrendered to US Special
Forces and Peshmerga as they entered
Mosul
2003 After Kirkuk fell Kurds Arabs and Turkmen carried out
attacks on each other
for 2 days
40 killed
2003 Bush administration told Turkey that US forces would
take control of Kirkuk city
2003 Powell told Turkey that US stood for territorial
integrity of Iraq meaning
wouldn’t support
Kurds separating
2003 PUK told Turkey that it would withdraw its Peshmerga
from Kirkuk city
2003 Sadr’s followers killed Sheikh Abdul Majid al-Khoei in
Najaf Surrounded
Ayatollah
Sistani’s house but driven off by tribesmen
2003 US moved 2,000 Peshmerga backed by US Special Forces to
Diyala’s
Khanaqin to
try to block Badr Brigade moving in from Iran
2003 Rumsfeld said that it was important for US to find
Iraq’s WMD
2003 Powell said he was sure US would find Iraq’s WMD
2003 Def Policy Board’s Adelman OpEd in Washington Post
Reminded readers 14
months
before he said war would be a cakewalk
2003 Adelman said Iraqis would start coming forward telling US
where Iraq’s WMD
were hidden
2003 Suicide bomber hit Marine checkpoint in Baghdad
wounding 4
2003 White House said it wanted to name some of ORHA staff
after they’d already
arrived in
Kuwait ready to go into Iraq
2003 White House spokesman Fleischer said Iraq’s WMD would
be found
2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq kidnapped American Nick Berg and took
him to Fallujah Would
later be
beheaded by Zarqawi
2006 Report US failed to provide police trainers as called
for to rebuild Iraqi police after
03 invasion
2006 Report CPA pushed number of new police not quality and
Interior Ministry lacked
capacity to
deal with them
2006 Report US officials withdrawn from Interior Ministry
which facilitated Badr’s take
over of
ministry
2007 Islamic Army accused ISI of killing 30 of its members
and members of
Mujahadeen
Army and Ansar al-Sunna
2008 Bush said US would only leave Iraq when it became a
democracy
2008 Interior Min said it would start confiscating weapons
in Basra as amnesty
period
ended
2008 Sadr said he would disarm Mahdi Army if all the others
militias disarmed
2010 Iranian Amb said next Iraqi govt should be national
unity one with Sunnis
implying
that Allawi’s Iraqiya should be included
2010 Insurgents like 1920 Revolution Brigades held meeting
in Istanbul to discuss
Iraq after
US military withdrawal
2011 Sadr said that he still had a militia which continued
to attack US forces
2012 Maliki said that if Assad deposed in Syria would cause
greater problems in
Middle East
2012 Sadrist MP said no confidence vote against Maliki would
not be good move
Pushed for
national conference instead to work out differences
2013 Gorran Islamic Union Islamic Group all said opposed to
Barzani extending
his term as
president of KRG
2014 Mutahidun accused militias of attacking civilians
throughout central Diyala
2015 IS captured Albu Faraj north of Ramadi Executed 33
people afterward
2017 Around 100 MPs signed petition to have parliament
dismiss Kirkuk Governor
Karim over
raising Kurdish flag in province
View the Iraq History Timelines
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