1922 Turkish troops tested border with Iraq Seized Rania in
Sulaymaniya after four days of fighting
1980 Iraq-Iran border clash at Qasr-e-Shirin in central Iran
across from Diyala province
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1987 UN Sec Gen tried to mediate end to Iran-Iraq War
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War,
The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)
1991 UN Resolution 712 said that money should be released
for buying food and supplies for Iraqi civilians
1996 US began 2 days of cruise missile attacks on targets in
Nasiriya in retaliation for Iraqi forces helping
KDP vs PUK and invading Irbil
1996 Iraqi army withdrew from most of Kurdistan after helping
KDP against PUK
1996 Barzani interviewed on BBC Said Saddam was president of
Iraq KDP had not left Iraq If deal could be
made with Baghdad it would happen
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
1996 US extended southern no fly zone farther north
2002 Bush told PM Blair Iraq had WMD and unclear how quickly
it could get nukes
2002 NSC met to discuss how to approach UN on Iraq Sec State
Powell wanted new inspections VP
Cheney said that would be useless
Bush decided to ask for new inspections
(Musings
On Iraq article UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD
and 2003 Invasion)
2002 Bush told NSC he wanted Congressional resolution for
use of force vs Iraq Thought would be easy
with elections coming
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Zarqawi car bomb hit Baghdad police HQ killing 1
wounding 20
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2003 Abdul Aziz al-Hakim blamed lax US security for death of
his brother Ayatollah Hakim
2003 Bush agreed to talk with UN
about multi-national force helping with security in Iraq Effort failed
2004 2 Americans Jack Henlsey and Eugene Armstrong and
Briton Kenneth Bigley kidnapped by Zarqawi
in Baghdad
2006 20 Anbar sheikhs told US forces they were forming
Emergency Council to fight Al Qaeda in
Iraq Said would work with US and
wanted Anbar governor dismissed
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar Gov Alwani)
(Musings
On Iraq article on change in perceptions that led to Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Confronting Al
Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Marines
Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Illusions of
Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2006 Iraq CIA station chief told Iraq Survey Group Interior
Ministry running death squads and torturing
people
2006 Fin Min Jabr told Iraq Survey Group corruption under
control due to Board of Supreme Audit
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen
on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption
in Iraq)
2007 Bush admin official said US now working around PM
Maliki because he was unwilling to reconcile
Said US pushing for elections
Maliki opposed US focusing on local reconciliation
2007 Report Head of Natl Reconciliation Comm Safa said
afraid US creating Sunni militias with sahwa that
would fight govt UK Gen working on
reconciliation said insurgents reluctant to join sahwa because afraid Maliki
govt would turn on them
2007 UK Gen Cross said he raised concerns about postwar
planning with Sec Def Rumsfeld who dismissed
warnings Told Rumsfeld
reconstruction should be internationalized and said more troops needed Said US
war plan fatally flawed
(Musings
On Iraq book review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
2008 Deadline for all displaced squatters to leave Baghdad
set by PM Maliki Threatened legal action against
those that didn’t leave Little
compliance
(Musings
On Iraq article on Maliki’s deadline to squatters/displaced)
2014 Peshmerga recaptured Zumar Ninewa
2014 Relatives of Camp Speicher massacre stormed parliament
and demanded explanations for what
happened
2014 ISI released video beheading of US reporter Steven
Slotoff Threatened to kill UK hostage if US didn’t
withdraw from Iraq
2014 US sent another 250 troops for force protection to Iraq
2015 Protesters surrounded Najaf provincial council building
and tried to sack it
2017 Kurdish Asayesh accused of executing up to 375 IS
suspects that just surrendered to them in Ninewa
(Musings
On Iraq article on Kurdish executions)
2018 Protest in Basra City Hawir Nahr Bin Omar oil field
Saibah gas field Shatt al-Arab and Garmat Ali
over water crisis in Basra
Protesters handed over demands for reforms and services in Muthanna and Health
workers protested not being paid in Dhi Qar and Qadisiyah
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