1917 UK Col Clayton worried Sykes-Picot would create
opposition by Sharif of
Mecca
against UK taking Baghdad
1941 Operation Regulta began British forces marched north
from Basra to
Kut and onto
Baghdad
1941 British forces moved from Fallujah to cut Baghdad-Mosul
road and railway
1941 PM Gaylani told Italians he was disappointed with Axis
assistance
1947 Month after returning to Iraq Mustafa Barzani started
another revolt against govt
1991 Kurdish parties threatened to go back to fighting if
deal not reached with Baghdad
over
autonomy
1993 UN Resolution 833 set Iraq-Kuwait border
1995 PUK and KDP met to maintain Kurdish parliament during
civil war
2003 Rumsfeld said Iraq might have destroyed its WMD right
before war but they
would be
found
2003 Preliminary report sent to Washington said 2 captured
trailers were not mobile
WMD labs as
first thought
2003 Cleric at Fallujah mosque praised 1st
serious attack on US troops 2 soldiers killed
9 injured
at checkpoint
2003 Outgoing ORHA head Garner told Bush and Rumsfeld Iraq
making progress and
US would be
out of country in weeks
2003 New UN Rep to Iraq deMello said that the sooner Iraqis
had power the better
2004 Sadr agreed to deal to end fighting US forces in Najaf
and other southern cities
2005 Badr militiamen in Wolf commando brigade blamed for
sectarian attacks
on Sunnis
2005 Sheikh Janabi of National Dialogue Council said
violence had changed to killing
based upon
identity Sunnis getting killed for being Sunni
2008 Maliki issued arrest warrants for new party in Diyala
made up of Sahwa Part of
crackdown
on Sunni in province
2008 Fmr Under Sec of Def Feith criticized Bush for
switching goal of Iraq war from
threat of
Saddam to spreading democracy
2009 US Army Chief of Staff Gen Casey said US could be fighting
in Iraq for next 10
yrs
2009 Iraq signed 2 year deal with IMF for $7 bil to help
with budget deficit
2011 Anbar council rejected protest calls to make province
federal region
2011 Protest in Baghdad over lack of services demanded
release of prisoners
2012 Pres Barzani said KDP and PUK peshmerga would be united
by end of year Still
hasn't
happened
2012 Kurdish Coalition said hadn’t decided on no confidence
vote against Maliki
2013 13 ISI car bombs in Baghdad killed 36 wounded 147
2013 Sadr gave Maliki 24 hrs to have ISF clear Asaib Ahl
Al-Haq from streets of
Baghdad
2014 New op in Jurf al-Sakhr, Babil four days after declared
freed
2014 Protest in Nasiriya over lack of electricity and
services
2014 Report Iran pushing PUK to support 3rd term
for Maliki
2015 Iranian Foreign Min denied Iranian troops fighting in
Baiji said only advisers
2015 Fmr MP Othman said 2,822 Peshmerga killed fighting IS
since June 2014
2015 Report Army and Hashd ordered to shut bridge to
displaced trying to flee Anbar
into
Baghdad
2016 Sadrists protest in Baghdad Police fired tear gas to
break them up Demos
in Babil
Karbala Basra Dhi Qar Muthanna too
2016 Kataib Hezbollah stopped large group of displaced
fleeing Sjar Anbar abducted
73 men not
seen afterward
2017 Iranian Revolutionary Guard general killed advising
Hashd around Baaj western
Ninewa
2017 Toronto Star printed story by Der Spiegel author
providing more information on
abuses by
Rapid Reaction unit during Mosul battle
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