1915 British won Battle of Shaiba in Basra province by
counterattacking and
routing Ottoman
forces
1941 UK decided to go ahead with troop deployments to Iraq
1959 Gen Qasim made cover of Time magazine
1966 Pres Arif died in helicopter crash
1987 Iran and KDP captured strategic mountains near
Sulaymaniya city
1991 Pres Bush said US would send humanitarian aid to Iraq
and condemned govt
attacks on
civilians but would not get more involved
1992 Sec Def Cheney said US didn’t overthrow Saddam in Gulf
War because would be
too
difficult to occupy Iraq
1993 US launched cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence
HQ in Baghdad in
response to
Iraqi attempt on fmr Pres Bush in Kuwait
1998 IAEA report to UN Iraq provided full and complete
record of its nuclear program
and shown
no new activity
1999 CIA paper said 4 reports claiming Iraq offered safe
haven to bin Laden Were all
false
2003 US forces captured Tikrit
2003 Bush criticized press for reporting on looting in Iraq Blamed
Saddam for postwar
chaos
2003 Rumsfeld said US would find Iraq’s WMD when people
started coming forward
and providing
intelligence about where they were hidden
2003 US forces found suspicious missile warheads that might
have contained WMD
Didn’t
2003 Turkmen accused Kurds of killing a child Crowd called
for revenge and Turkish
intervention
2003 Turkmen Front demanded that KDP leave its headquarters
in Kirkuk giving it
eviction
notice
2003 US Gen Hawkins flew into Baghdad to try to get power
grid up and working
again since
it went down when city taken by US
2004 CENTCOM cmdr Gen. Abizadi said that US needed
7000-10000 more troops
in Iraq Bush
agreed to increase
2006 Gen Swannack fmr cmdr 82nd Airborne Div
became 5th retired general to call
for
Rumsfeld to resign over Iraq
2007 9 insurgent groups joined together to fight ISI
including Islamic Army and
1920
Revolution Brigades
2008 Iraq signed $833 mil arms deal with Serbia with no
competitive bidding didn’t
follow
anti-corruption rules and Maliki stopped audit
2008 1300 police and soldiers fired for not fighting Mahdi
Army in Kut and Basra
2008 Maliki ordered cracked down on gas stations and oil
distribution centers
controlled by Sadrists
2008 Cabinet approved bill that would ban political parties
that had militias from
taking part
in provincial elections
2008 US National Sec Adv Hadley said Iraq had agreed to
pressure Iran to stop
arming
militias
2009 Sinjar and Makhmour said they would not cooperate with
Hadbaa led Ninewa
council
2009 Maliki signed technical military cooperation deal while
on visit to Russia
Including fixing
equipment and opened door to buying arms
2010 State of Law said it didn’t have any red lines with
Iraqiya but said some members
were tied
to Baathists
2010 Basra announced free trade zone with Iran
2010 KRG parliament passed regional budget Gorran and
Islamic Group dissented
saying that no reforms included in
it
2011 ISF raided union and women’s organization to arrest
protest organizers in
Baghdad
2011 Baghdad authorities tried to ban protests in Tahrir
Square
2011 Head of Oil Police Gen Ibrahim said his forces were
short 12,000 officers Led to
signing
8,000 contractors
2011 Reported split within SIIC Wanted to remove Ammar Hakim
and Adel Abdul
Mahdi and
elect new leadership
2011 Protesters in Sulaymaniya refused to meet with Pres
Barzani delegation Protesters
called for
Barzani PM Salah and speaker to all step down
2011 Gulf states asked Arab League to cancel summit in
Baghdad due to Iraq criticizing
crackdown
in Bahrain
2012 ISI said it was responsible for March prison break in
Kirkuk that freed 19
prisoners
2012 Head of Election Commission and another member were
arrested on corruption
charges
brought up by Maliki to get rid of them
2013 Sadrists in Karbala and Iraqiya in Mosul claimed ISF
were being told to vote
for State
of Law in provincial elections
2014 ISIS held parade in Baiji
2015 Abadi fired 300 army officers as part of reforming ISF
2015 Maliki said Hashd had become 3rd military
force in country after army and
police and
said any negative stories about them were all lies
2015 Hashd arrived at Assad base in Anbar for Albu Faraj op
Would later claim they
were not in
Anbar due to Abadi and US
2015 Kataib Hezbollah and Peace Brigades said they would
take part in Anbar offensive
2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Hezbollah Nujaba and Badr said
wouldn’t take part in Anbar
offensive because of US airstrikes
2016 Fist fight broke out in parliament over PM Abadi’s
technocratic cabinet
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