This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 5 Pres Bush said Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait would not stand

 

1933 Iraqi army swept through Jebel Behkair executed any Assyrians found

(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)

This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 4 French deported Assyrians from Syria who then attacked Iraqi army believing they were sent to kill them Captured Assyrians executed

 

1914 US consulate report Ottomans ordered mobilization and draft in Baghdad

This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 3 IS took Sinjar starting Yazidi genocide

 

1922 New cabinet formed under PM Abd al-Rahman al-Gaylani

This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 2 Iraq invaded Kuwait

 

1914 Ottomans signed alliance with Germany that would bring Mesopotamia into WW1

This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 1 Iraq walked out on talks with Kuwait which would lead to invasion

 

883 Mohammed leader of Zanj slave rebellion killed by Abbasid army led by Caliph

Muwafaq

(Musings On Iraq review The Revolt Of African Slaves In Iraq in the 3^rd/9^th Century)

Review Orit Bashkin, Impossible Exodus, Iraqi Jews In Israel, Stanford University Press, 2017

  

In 2015 an Israeli was looking for an Arab to kill in revenge for the deaths of Jews. He stabbed an Iraqi Jew because he looked like an Arab. Even after the Iraqi yelled that he was Jewish the man continued his attack. Luckily the Iraqi was able to run away. This is a metaphor for author Orit Bashkin on how Iraqis were treated in Israel. Even though they were Jewish they were treated as an Other because they came from an Arab country.

This Day In Iraqi History - Jul 31 Foreign companies divided up Iraq’s petroleum concession

 

1918 UK oil expert Adm Slade wrote 1^st Lord of the Admiralty Sir Geddes that UK should seize as

much oil as possible which included fields in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)