Edmund Candler was a journalist who traveled with the British forces during the Mesopotamia campaign of World War I. This second volume of his book The Long Road to Baghdad covers the end of the war from 1917-1918. The vast majority of the writing is a blow by blow account of the various battles fought as the British conquered what would become Iraq. It does bring up larger issues however such as the lack of a strategy and the contempt the English had for the Ottomans and Arabs.
1921 Colonial Sec Churchill wrote PM Lloyd George Said making Faisal king of Iraq best
chance for UK to save money in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Cairo 1921, Ten Days That Made the Middle East)
(Musings On Iraq review Desert Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia)
(Musings On Iraq review Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923)
(Musings On Iraq review Foundations of British Policy In The Arab World: The Cairo Conference of 1921)
On March 12 Ansar Allah’s 19th Hashd Brigade was struck by at least two airstrikes in Akashat, Anbar. When rescue teams arrived they were hit as well. At least 35 were killed and around 90 were wounded. That was by far the highest number of casualties by any operation by the United States and Israel since the Iran War started. Before that the Hashd announced that there had been a total of 27 dead and 50 injured.
1910 Ottoman army defeated Montafiq tribal confederation in present day Maysan province for rejecting
taxes
In the late hours of March 11 two oil tankers off the coast of Iraq were hit by a booby trapped boat. One crew member was killed and several were injured. This was the second time a tanker was hit in Basra waters.
1914 UK sent ultimatum to Ottomans If they wanted to increase tariffs had to allow merger
of Turkish Petroleum Company that was going to get oil concession in Mosul vilayet with Anglo-Persian Oil Company 1st sign UK wanted to control Mesopotamian oil
The lead story in the Iran war’s impact on Iraq was that the United Arab Emirates’ consulate in Irbil was targeted by a drone either by Tehran or the Iraqi Resistance. This forced Baghdad into a series of phone calls with foreign countries to assure them that their diplomats would be safe in the country although there is no guarantee that will happen.
Edmund Candler was a journalist who traveled with the British forces during the Mesopotamia campaign of World War I. This ...
