1927 Turkish Petroleum Company struck oil at Baba Gurgur
field, Kirkuk starting Iraq’s oil
industry
1973 3rd day fighting
between Israeli and Iraqi forces in Syria
1980 Iraqi forces entered Khorramshahr Iranians began phased
withdrawal from city in south Took
Abadan-Ahwaz road Began attack on
Abadan but didn’t have numbers to take it
1980 Iranian counterattack stopped Iraqi advance in Dezful
area
1982 Iraqi air force ended two month bombing campaign
against Kharg Island Iran’s major oil port with
little to show for it
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service
With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
1990 Iran and Iraq officially restored diplomatic relations
as Saddam tried to secure his eastern flank
as war neared with US
1997 Britain, Turkey, US asked for KDP to withdraw from PUK
territory
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
2001 Frontline TV show interviewed INC provided Iraqi
defector Khodada who claimed Iraq trained
terrorists to hijack planes at
Salman Pak implying 9/11 connection
2003 White House told Congress 70,000 new Iraqi forces on
duty and 13,000 in training
2003 Sadrists tried to seize Karbala shrine leading to
fighting with Sistani followers
2003 Zarqawi suicide car bombing of Turkish Embassy in Baghdad
2 dead 13 wounded
2004 Insurgents suicide bombers penetrated Green Zone killed
5 wounded 18
2004 US forces began encircling Fallujah and sending
reinforcements to Ramadi
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2006 After 26 bodies of men from Balad found in Dhuluiya
Mahdi Army began arriving in Balad from
Baghdad Shiite gunmen set up checkpoints
in Balad and started killing Sunnis Shiite mosques began broadcasting messages
that Sunnis needed to leave
2008 1795 Christians fled Mosul after 14 killed PM Maliki
sent 2 National Police Brigades to try to stop
killings
(Musings
On Iraq article on Christians in Mosul)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Christianity in Iraq)
2008 140 Iraqi refugee families returned from Syria as part
of PM Maliki’s campaign to encourage
refugees to come back to Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on PM Maliki’s refugee return policy)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Children of War,
Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
2009 Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry reported 85,694 dead
147,195 wounded civilians and ISF from 2004 to
Oct 2008
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq Ministry Counts 85,000 Dead From 2004-Oct 2008)
2012 MP announced arrest warrant issued for head of Central
Bank of Iraq Shabibi after he refused
to cooperate with PM Maliki over
the dinar
2014 IS captured Hit Anbar after Iraq army unit abandoned
base
2015 Baiji refinery in Salahaddin finally freed from IS
2017 IRGC Gen Suelimani met with Talabani family Went over
govt take over of Kirkuk Warned PUK to
distance itself from KDP or suffer
the consequences after independence referendum
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Great
Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
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