1916 Ottomans defeated the British at Battle of Kut after 4
months captured
13,000
prisoners British lost 33,000 casualties One of largest UK defeats in WWI
1941 More British troops from 20th Inf Brigade
arrived in Basra Iraq protested
1941 British Ambassador told British women and children to
leave Baghdad because
of expected
war with Iraq
1941 British flew planes from Shaiba base in Basra to
Habaniya in Anbar
1941 PM Gaylani sent Iraqi forces to British air base at
Habaniya, Anbar to confront
them 11th
Inf Brigade ordered to Baghdad to later be deployed to Anbar
1941 Iraqis flooded Habaniya area limiting movement of British
troops there
1948 Battle of Katamon began between Jewish forces attacking
Iraqi volunteers and
Arab Legion
in 1st Arab-Israeli War
1954 Arshad al-Umari became premier 2nd time
1969 Iraq condemned Shah of Iran for unilaterally ending
1937 border treaty over
Shatt
al-Arab waterway
1981 Amnesty Intl report interviewed 15 Iraqis exiles
detailing toture methods used by
govt
1982 Iran launched Op Bait al-Moqaddas with 70,000 troops to
liberate Khorramshahr
Iran-Iraq
War Gained 300 sq mi
1994 Iraqi army launched new military campaign to drive out
displaced and rebels
from
southern marshes
1994 Sec State Christopher said Iraq complying with UN Res
687 was not enough to
end
sanctions Contradicted resolution
2002 Pentagon official said 9/11 hijacker met with Iraqi
intel officer in Prague
Didn’t
happen
2003 2nd anti-American protests in Fallujah Threw
rocks at US troops who fired into
crowd
killing 3 wounding 16
2003 50 former British ambassadors and senior officials
wrote letter to Blair criticizing
having no
plan for post-invasion Iraq
2004 US announced end of Battle of Fallujah Would withdraw turn
over security to
Fallujah
Brigade
2004 Sheikh Jabani’s brother and 3 kids kidnapped in
Fallujah for fighting insurgents
2005 Gen Vines issued order for US troops to stop and report
any cases of abuse by
Iraqi
forces
2008 2nd ISCI and Dawa delegation went to Iran to
meet Sadr and Gen Suleimani to
negotiate
ceasefire
2008 MPs found torture at Karbala prison overcrowding in
Babil ones
2008 Accordance Front sent list of candidates to replace
their vacant ministers in
cabinet
Maliki rejected some of them
2008 Turkey’s Foreign Minister said Ankara wanted better
relations with KRG
2008 Fmr Dep Sec of Def Wolfowitz said Bush admin never
expected an insurgency
in Iraq
2009 Police sent by Integrity Comm to arrest Trade Min
Sudani for corruption got
into
shootout with guards in Baghdad
2009 Interior Ministry said ISI had successfully penetrated
ISF and used agents to
carry out
attacks
2010 Maliki said that there were no secret prisons in Iraq
after one at Muthanna Airport
prison was revealed Claimed that
torture victims at Muthanna prison gave themselves scars to fake abuse
2010 US accused Iran of using Hezbollah to carry out attacks
against its forces in Iraq
2010 Sadrists said Maliki could not get a second term as
premier
2011 Obama’s National Security Adviser suggested 10,000 US
troops stay in Iraq after
withdrawal
2011 Sadr threatened to bring back Mahdi Army if US forces
stayed past end of year
2011 KRG security forces arrested one of top protest leaders
in Sulaymaniya
2011 Anbar councilman Fallujah police chief and other
officials arrested in Anbar
Anbar Ops
Command and Maliki blamed
2012 Pres Barzani told US he objected to selling F-16s to
Baghdad Said didn’t trust
Maliki with
them
2013 Maliki and Pres Barzani agree on 7 point program to
repair relations between
Baghdad and
Irbil
2013 ISI set off 2 car bombs in central Karbala 2 car bombs
in Amarah 1 car bomb
in Diwaniya
2013 Turkmen in Kirkuk demanded peshmerga withdraw from
disputed areas
2014 ISIS took credit for suicide bombing of PUK rally in
Khanaqin, Diyala that killed
30
2014 Report that US intel believed Maliki getting re-elected
PM would divide Iraq
more
2016 Protests in Baghdad Basra Najaf Qadisiya Maysan Karbala
Dhi Qar Muthanna
against corruption and sectarian
quotas in govt
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