This Day In Iraqi History - Nov 26 1920 Revolt ended vs British Mandate in Iraq

 

1914 Gen Barrow in India was against further advances by British in Mesopotamia Did want to

seize Qurna, Basra

Full Results Of Iraqi’s 2025 Parliamentary Election

 

While Iraq’s ruling elite are starting discussions over who should be the next prime minister the full results of the country’s 2025 parliamentary elections have been announced.

This Day In Iraqi History - Nov 25 Report Pres Trump asked PM Abadi twice for Iraq’s oil in return for invading Iraq

 

1638 Ottomans laid siege to Baghdad for 3^rd time

This Day In Iraqi History - Nov 24 Colonial Sec Churchill said when King Faisal could pay for his govt he could decide the future of Iraq Until then UK was in control

 

1915 UK decided to retreat from Ctesiphon/Salman Pak due to heavy casualties Turks withdrew as well

This Day In Iraqi History - Nov 23 Military govt formed under PM Mahmoud to put down 1952 Intifada protests against monarchy and UK

 

1914 Sir Percy Cox issued statement in Arabic that British had occupied Basra and UK was

at war with Ottomans and had no ill will towards locals

(Musings On Iraq review Desert Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia)

(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)

This Day In Iraqi History - Nov 22 1952 Intifada started against Regent of Iraq

1914 Looting started in Basra city after it fell to British UK appointed governor of vilayet

Review Farnaz Fassihi, Waiting for an Ordinary Day, The Unraveling Of Life In Iraq, Public Affairs, 2008

 

Fassihi, Farnaz, Waiting for an Ordinary Day, The Unraveling Of Life In Iraq, Public Affairs, 2008

 

Farnas Fassihi was a journalist for the Wall Street Journal who reported from Iraq from before the 2003 invasion to the start of 2006. In her book Waiting for an Ordinary Day, The Unraveling Of Life In Iraq she attempts to tell the stories of regular Iraqis who were swept up in the changes and violence that enveloped their country and how the growing insecurity took a toll upon her. It is one of the few Western books from this time that put Iraqis in the forefront