1915 British forces moved north to try to encircle Ottoman forces in Qurna
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1931 Barzinji agreed to truce with Baghdad after a month of RAF bombing and actions by Iraqi
army Barzinji was sent to south as part of deal
(Musings On Iraq review Britain In Iraq, Contriving King and Country)
1935 Muntafiq tribe joined revolt against monarchy
1936 Muntafiq tribes in Nasiriya and Suq al-Shuyukh joined tribal revolt in Diwaniya Demanded
more Shiite representation in govt
(Musings On Iraq review The Shi’is Of Iraq)
1941 Iraq told German ambassador to Turkey that it agreed to Turkish offer to mediate with England
1941 Golden Square officers rejected Turkey’s offer to mediate and threatened to shoot PM Gaylani
He offered to resign Mufti of Jerusalem had to intervene
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny)
1941 1st trainload of Nazi German war supplies from Vichy France controlled Syria arrived in Mosul
to support PM Gaylani’s govt Never used
(Musings On Iraq interview World War II In Iraq and Syria Interview With Case Western’s Prof Broich)
1941 British forces bombed Syrian-Mosul railway to try to block Axis aid to Iraq
1941 Jordanians from Palestine arrived at Fort Rutba in Anbar
1941 German planes attacked British forces at Habaniya air base 1 British plane shot down by German
plane over Mosul
1941 Egyptian Chief of Staff Gen Masri arrested while attempting to fly to Iraq to join fight vs British
(Musings On Iraq review Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1982 Iranian Security Council asked Khomeini’s permission to enter Iraq but denied
1983 Dep PM Aziz went to Paris to ask for new arms deal with France
1984 Iran attacked Kuwait tanker carrying Iraqi oil in Persian Gulf Was retaliation for Iraq attacks on
Iranian oil industry
1987 UN investigation said Iraq used chemical weapons against Iranian civilians
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
(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 Kurds attacked police station in Zakho as negotiations continued over rules following 91
uprising
1997 Iraqi army clashed with Bani Said tribe in southern Iraq
2000 Saddam speech Said Iraq had broken will of US during Gulf War and dismissed US military
technology
(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Perspectives Project, A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership)
2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld said US didn’t need to connect Iraq and 9/11 to go to war Said main reason
was WMD
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 White House official said Iraq may not have had stocks of WMD but just capability to make
them
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld told Bremer he would be responsible for temporary governing of Iraq
2003 Mass grave of 15,000 victims of 1991 uprising found in Mahawil, Babil
(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)
(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)
2003 Defense Min adviser Slocombe sent draft order to disband Iraqi military to UK officials Who
agreed to it
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
2004 Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace told Senate US interrogation methods used in Iraq violated Geneva
Conventions
2006 US military report US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey said Iran providing weapons safe haven to militias
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq A History Of Iranian Weapons Shipments To Iraq Interview With Arkenstone Blog’s Galen Wright)
2007 Abu Musah arms supplier to Iranian backed Special Groups arrested
2007 Jihad and Reform Front got into gun battle with ISI in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq The Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
(Musings On Iraq review Caliphate At War)
2007 Fmr CPA head Bremer OpEd in WashPost Defended deBaathification and disbanding Iraqi
military Said army had disbanded itself Shiite and Kurdish leaders wanted it gone Said right to ban Baath US was only doing what it did in Germany with Nazis after WW2 Said it was Iraqis that abused deBaathification but CPA stopped them
(Musings On Iraq The Baathist Purge In Post-Saddam Iraq, A Short History Of DeBaathification)
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq Interview with CSU San Marco’s Prof Marashi Development And Setbacks Of The Current Iraqi Military)
2008 Report most insurgents fled Mosul before govt started offensive there
2008 Report Iraqi officials were smuggling artifacts out of Iraq to be sold on the black market
2008 Speaker of KRG parliament said Kurdish oil deals were legal and in accordance with
constitution
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2008 Constitutional committee turned over Art 140 that was to determine future of Kirkuk and other
disputed issues in constitution to parliament to resolve Nothing happened
2008 Report Fmr head of State Dept’s anti-corruption effort said office never staffed and ideas
ignored Said State Dept allowed corruption to grow State never committed to fighting it Ignored PM Maliki’s attempt to undermine Integrity Comm Anti-corruption office closed in Dec 07 after report it made leaked to media
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Corruption)
(Musings On Iraq Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US Anti-Graft Official)
2009 Denmark latest European country to start deporting Iraqi refugees
(Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
2009 Hadbaa party was in talks with Baghdad to try to force Kurds to participate in Ninewa council
that they were boycotting
(Musings On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)
2009 ISCI’s Hakim said he wanted the United Iraqi Alliance reformed before the 2010 elections
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Role In The Revival Of The United Iraqi Alliance)
(Musings On Iraq United Iraqi Alliance Ready To Be Reconstituted)
(Musings On Iraq Trying To Revive the United Iraqi Alliance)
2010 Iraqi general said Sahwa were like a militia that needed to be disarmed and that members of
Maliki govt distrusted them
2010 Christian party said insurgents were threatening Christians and Assyrians in Mosul trying to
drive them out of city
(Musings On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)
2011 Friday of Redemption protest in Baghdad called for better services and jobs Were calls for PM
Maliki to step down
(Musings On Iraq Protests In Iraq’s Tahrir Square Continue)
(Musings On Iraq May 20, 2011 Protests In Iraq’s Tahrir Square, Baghdad)
2011 Iraqiya blamed PM Maliki for assassination attempts on 3 of its members
2011 World Health Org report said Iraq 1 of only 2 countries where life expectancy went down in
MENA Dropped from 68 to 66 yrs from 2000-09
2011 Report MI6 drew up coup plot against Saddam in Dec 01
2011 ISCI’s Ammar Hakin called on Arab govts to end tensions with Iran and improve relations
2011 Parliament created special committee to implement Article 140 to determine future of disputed
territories Led to nothing
2011 Sadr sermon in Najaf Appealed to public to get rid of US through protests
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sadr Could Be Backing Off Threat To Revive Mahdi Army If U.S. Doesn’t Withdraw)
2012 Report that Pres Talabani supported PM Maliki while Sadr Speaker Nujafi Pres Barzani and
Allawi wanted no confidence vote Sadr actually stood with Maliki
(Musings On Iraq How The No Confidence Move Against Iraq’s Premier Split The Kurdish Parties)
(Musings On Iraq What Does Iraq’s Sadr Want?)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sadrist Back Off Attacks Upon Prime Minister Maliki For Now)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2012 Report that Syrian govt was arresting and deporting Iraqis
2012 Ninewa Gov Nujafi announced he was reconciling with KRG When Nujafi elected in 09 Kurds
boycotted provincial govt
2012 Report State Dept cut police training program Originally called for 350 trainers Cut to 50
Some thought program would end soon State was supposed to take over program from Pentagon but couldn’t Lacked resources and personnel
2013 Arguments between Ramadi and Fallujah protest sites over which represented Anbar
demonstrators Sheikh Saadi said talks beginning between Ramadi protest site and govt
(Musings On Iraq Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor of Inside Iraqi Politics)
(Musings On Iraq Explaining The Political Factors Behind The Increasing Violence In Iraq, An Interview With maria Fantappie Iraq Researcher At The International Crisis Group)
2013 Report 2009 elections PM Maliki’s State of Law won 50% of Shiite seats 2013 only won 33% of
those seats State of Law was larger in 2013 Sadrists also lost seats from 22% to 15% Iraqiya only won 1 seat in south
2013 KRG signed new energy deal with Turkey Ankara would get stakes in KRG oil and gas fields
2013 Sadr criticized Mahdi Army factions that were attacking civilians and displacing people Claimed
they were exploiting the name of the Mahdi Army for personal gain
2014 ISF claimed progress in Fallujah op MPs and experts warned that ISF failing due to bad logistics
ISF took Halabsa Albu Alwan Nassaf Amiriya Fallujah Sijr Amal Would fail to free Fallujah
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Western Front Is Anbar Next To Fall?)
2014 ISIS began car bomb wave
2014 Iraq asked Turkey to follow 2010 trade agreement and not export oil for KRG Maliki govt
stopped monthly budget payments to KRG for not meeting its oil export quota set in budget
2014 Report KRG turned to private investors and companies for money to make up for Baghdad not
sending monthly budget payments Official said KRG got $417 mil loans from donors Oil companies loaned $258 mil Oil exports were going to pay them back KRG would not be able to pay its debts
2015 Rumors of suicide bombers led to riot amongst Shiite pilgrims in Adhamiya Baghdad burning
homes and cars
(Musings On Iraq Disaster In Iraq’s Adhamiya Neighborhood Averted)
2015 Report Abu Ala al-Afri deputy IS leader killed in air strike in Tal Afar Ninewa
2016 IS attacked ISF bases around Ramadi with 20 suicide car bombs
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2016 Protests in Wasit Muthanna Babil Basra Dhi Qar Baghdad calling for govt reform
2016 Report Oil companies told Oil Ministry development projects would be delayed if Baghdad
insisted on spending cuts Oil Ministry asked companies to cut their budgets for 2nd yr due to low oil prices BP Shell Lukoil all complained about request
2019 Mansour Marid elected Ninewa governor Set off controversy in Baghdad as various politicians
claimed vote was rigged by bribes Part of power struggle between Sunni factions
(Musings On Iraq New Ninewa Governor Surrounded In Bribery Accusations Over His Election)
2019 Speaker Halbusi said he was leaving Axis Alliance to form his own bloc Iraqi Forces
Alliance Would be start of building up his own power base
2019 Integrity Commission said it found corrupt deal between Basra Oil Company and 2
foreign companies worth $126 mil
2019 Report IS had cave network in Badush Ninewa Carrying out attacks kidnappings
extortion ISF arbitrary in response Human Rights Watch documented torture to get confessions Badush was IS base before it seized Mosul in 2014
(Musings On Iraq Can The Islamic State Make A Comeback In Iraq Part 1? Interview With Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Michael Knights)
(Musings On Iraq Can The Islamic State Make A Comeback In Iraq Part 2? Interview With Il Foglio’s Daniele Raineri)
2019 IS started burning farms in Qara Tapa dist northern Diyala
(Musings On Iraq The Islamic State’s Failed Comeback In Iraq)
2020 US govt report IS called for increased attacks during COVID IS activity remained at low level
Mostly operated in remote parts of Iraq Recruited in Al Hol camp in Syria IS looked to preserve forces Jan 2020 UN said IS trying to rebuild in rural areas IS’s own media said its attacks decreased from end of 2019 to start of 2020 Exploited disputed areas Most active in Diyala
(Musings On Iraq Islamic State Calls For More Attacks During Covid Crisis In Iraq)
2020 Protesters said suspending demonstrations until after Eid holiday to give PM Kazemi time to
fulfill promises
(Musings On Iraq Protests Return To Iraq Can New Govt Respond To Their Demands?)
2021 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq attacked Falcon Intelligence Cell office in Basra after it tried to arrest a
militiaman for killing an activist PM Kazemi ordered investigation Nothing happened
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2021 Police arrested protesters in Babil demonstrating after assassination of Karbala activist Led
to clashes
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
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