1917 British army captured Baghdad Led to widespread looting
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1922 Wahabi Ikhwan from Saudi Arabia attacked south of Nasiriya slaughtering civilians
1959 Nasser gave speech in Damascus attacking Communists as being against freedom not
supporting Arab nationalism and taking orders from a foreign country meaning USSR Aimed at Iraqi Communists who supported Qasim govt
(Musings On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
1963 Pres Arif formed govt that didn’t include Nasserites Purged them from military
1963 Deputy PM and Baath leader Saadi said Kurds would remain under govt authority for foreign
economic and military affairs during negotiations with Mullah Mustafa Barzani He said he would accept decentralization
(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)
1970 Bakr agreed to Kurdish autonomy Included self-rule with assembly Recognized Kurdish language
Promoted Kurdish culture Kurdish vice president Share of oil revenue Barzani agreed to give up heavy weapons and have Peshmerga integrated into army
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
(Musings On Iraq review People Without A Country, The Kurds and Kurdistan)
1970 Since fighting started in 1968 some 60,000 killed in Kurdish rebellion 300,000 displaced
1971 Was supposed to be census in Kirkuk to determine whether it would join Kurdish
autonomy region or not Never happened
1974 After talks with KDP broke down Bakr govt announced Autonomy Law for Kurdistan which KDP
rejected
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1984 Report Iraq had 3 poison gas plants producing chemical weapons for Iran-Iraq War
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)
1985 Iran bombed Baghdad and 10 other Iraqi cities Started 2nd War of Cities
1985 Iran started Op Badr trying again to cut Basra-Baghdad highway and take back initiative in war
Started with diversionary attack then infiltration into Hoveyzah marshes Overran Iraqi 35th Division
1986 Iraqi Special Forces unit destroyed attempting to storm beaches on Faw Peninsula in Basra
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1987 Limited Iranian attack in Basra stopped by Iraqis
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1988 Iran and Iraq signed truce in war of cities in Ankara Didn’t last War of Cities went on for another
month
(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 review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1991 Shiite uprising in Hillah put down
1991 Rebels from Najaf met French forces who said they would meet Gen Schwarzkopf Never happened
1991 Kurdish uprising started in Irbil
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1991 Massoud Barzani offered amnesty for soldiers who surrendered to Peshmerga
1991 Peshmerga began attacking Kirkuk, Iraqi army responded by taking hostages inside city
(Musings On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the Impact of the 1991 Uprising)
(Musings On Iraq Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising)
1992 Saddam said Kurds could not hold elections for parliament until they gave up protection of
Coalition forces
1992 Iraq objected to UN inspections claiming they were trying to deindustrialize country by
blocking use of dual use equipment
(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)
1995 PUK suicide bomber hit KDP headquarters in Zakho
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
2002 PM Blair told VP Cheney UK would support US action to remove Saddam
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Bush and NSC met Agreed to keep Iraqi police
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld said US could attack Iraq by itself without other nations Said British might not
participate
2003 UK Embassy in US furious that Sec Def Rumsfeld said British might not take part in war and
complained to White House
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld forced to issue clarification saying British would take part in Iraq war
2003 PM Blair said Britain would help in any US attack upon Iraq
2003 UK acknowledged couldn't get 2nd UN resolution authorizing force against Iraq before US timetable
for war
2003 UK Chief of Def Staff Adm Boyce said military needed legal directive for war with Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 CIA assessment said it didn’t dispute IAEA finding that Iraq-Niger uranium docs were fakes
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 CIA WMD division said it didn’t dispute IAEA finding that Iraq-Niger uranium docs were fakes
and always considered intel on story fragmentary
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
2003 ORHA head Garner told press US would keep Iraqi army and would quickly turn over control of
country to Iraqis When asked Garner dismissed talk about US turning over power to Chalabi and INC
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz and UnderSecDef Feith chastised ORHA head Garner for comments about
INC Garner later told by Pentagon he could no longer talk to the press
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)
(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)
2003 Natl Sec Adv Rice issued memo on postwar Iraq plans Said interim Iraqi authority would be created
Meeting in Baghdad to be held to bring in more Iraqis to authority
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s “Hard Lessons” – Part I: Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
2004 UK envoy to Iraq John Drawers said US had no leadership strategy or coordination
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2004 Iran intel opened Office to Help Poor Shiites as front office in Najaf Recruited Iraqis
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 11 The Gathering Storm)
2007 US Emb report 11 ministries and Central Bank of Iraq using Article 136(b) of Criminal Code to
block up to 48 investigations and corruption cases Sep 06-Feb 07 Said PM Maliki blocked corruption cases to help political allies
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen on Iraq’s fight with corruption)
(Musings On Iraq interview with former anti-corruption official Vincent Foulk)
2008 Report Awakening had broken up into 3 main factions under Sheikh Abu Risha Sheik Suleiman
and Sheikh Hayes They were fighting for political power in both Anbar and in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq Anbar’s Forgotten Sheikh)
(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
2008 Mahdi Army fought ISCI controlled police in Kut after they raided Sadrist areas Clashes in several
other southern cities ISCI leader in Babil assassinated Sadr said that Mahdi Army could use arms in self defense leading to new round of confrontations with its main rival for control of south Iraq
2009 PM Maliki blamed all corruption in Iraq on Saddam Said his govt would work on being
transparent to counter graft
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen on Iraq’s fight with corruption)
(Musings On Iraq interview with former anti-corruption official Vincent Foulk)
2010 US captured ISI governor for Baghdad Rawi who provided intel that led to killing of ISI leaders
Masri and Baghdadi
2010 State Dept annual human rights report said 09 PM Maliki went after Sunnis in Diyala Warrants for 4
provincial council members dep governor MP Special Forces raided provincial govt and arrested council member Dep governor arrested
2011 4,000 protested in Sulaymaniya demanding reforms 1 man tried to light himself on fire but stopped
2011 KDP held rally against on going protests
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
2011 Protests in Baghdad Fallujah Basra Najaf Hilla Ramadi Nasiriya calling for reforms end to
corruption services jobs Communists led protest in Baghdad
2011 Maliki govt said it would meet electricity demand by 2014 Didn’t happen
2011 Report sahwa leader in Garma Anbar said half his fighters had left because didn’t think Baghdad
would employ them All sahwa were supposed to be integrated into govt by end of 2010 but delayed due to election Nothing happened after new govt formed
2012 KRG said it wanted to produce 1 mil/bar/day of oil by 2014 and 2 mil/bar/day by 2019 Didn’t
happen
2012 SIIC and Badr officially split into 2 parties
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2013 Anbar council voted to delay provincial elections there due to security concerns
2015 Sadr said that Hashd and ISF should be punished for torture and abuses Said liberated areas
from IS needed to be rebuilt Said his militia Peace Brigades would help restore services in some freed places Response to social media postings of killings and abuses by security forces
2015 Salahaddin council admitted that some houses were burned during security ops but said
they all belonged to IS members Response to Hashd destroying houses
2015 Report Photos being posted by ISF and Hashd on social media of killing prisoners Dead IS
fighters tied to Humvees and then heads cut off Civilians being executed
2015 Report Mass grave found in Albu Ajeel Salahaddin with 300-400 bodies Some believed
they were from IS massacre of cadets at Camp Speicher after Mosul fell
2016 Sadrists protested again in Baghdad demanding reforms
(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM Abadi’s reforms)
2016 UNHCR said KRG forcing displaced into camps and not allowing them to leave
2017 Golden Diiv and Federal Police attacked Old City Mosul from 3 axes
2017 Pres Barzani said Kurdish independence would come about via dialogue Said disputed areas
Kurds had occupied during war vs IS had to determine their own future Said since Iraq created had abused Kurds and that continued since 2003
2017 Hashd found mass grave near Badush prison Ninewa with 100s of bodies IS reportedly
killed 600 prisoners when it took prison in 2014
2018 Security operation in part of Hawija district Kirkuk began in response to increased insurgent attacks in
area
2018 2 Pro-Abadi MPs said that parliament added too much govt spending to 2018 budget which World
Bank objected to and admitted IMF had problems with budget as well
2018 Ninewa council called for all armed groups to leave Sinjar Aimed at PKK who didn’t leave
2019 Iranian Pres Rouhani came to Iraq to increase economic ties to avoid US sanctions
2020 Kataib Hezbollah fired rockets at Camp Taji in Baghdad killing 2 American and 1
British soldier and 1 US contractor
(Musings On Iraq As Talk Of Expelling US Forces From Iraq Dies Down Attacks Upon Americans Pick Up)
2020 2 activists assassinated in Maysan Led protesters burned Asaib Ahl Al-Haq office
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2021 Sadr called for protecting protesters Said he was against kidnapping and assassinating
activists Sadr had followers join protests then turned on them and attacked them Now tried to reconcile with them
2021 Protests in Maysan and Muthanna after activist assassinated in Maysan
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
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