1959 Gen Qasim withdrew Iraq from anti-Communist Baghdad
Pact
1973 Saddam visited Moscow to
push for stronger Iraq-Soviet cooperation
1986 UN condemned Iraq’s use of
chemical weapons in Iran-Iraq War
1988 KDP base hit with poison gas in 2nd Anfal
campaign Civilians rounded up and
men
executed by govt forces
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1991 Turkish Pres Ozal met Bush in US and told him an
independent Kurdistan in Iraq
would lead
to greater Kurdistan affecting Turkey Syrian Iran
1992 Iraqi army began shelling Kifri as sporadic fighting
with Peshmerga continued
1998 French Pres Chirac told PM Blair that sanctions were
killing kids in Iraq
2002 Cheney on CNN’s Late Edition called Saddam an evil man
that U.S. would deal
with
2003 US forces reached outside Karbala
2003 US B-52 bombers began attacks on Republican Guard
positions south of
Baghdad
2003 British forces took Basra airport Heavy fighting with
Fedayeen led British forces
to withdraw from Basra City
2003 British military told govt local Iraqi militias putting
up tough fight in Basra
2003 Red Cross warned of humanitarian emergency in Basra
city as water running out
2003 Dow Jones reported no WMD found at suspected facility
in Najaf
2003 Iran decided to send in operatives and Badr Brigade to
carry out ops against US
in Iraq
2003 Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and Pres Khatami recorded
talking about sending
forces to 5
Iraq cities to incite anti-US violence
2003 Arab League voted 21-1 demanding U.S. and UK forces
withdraw from Iraq
2003 Putin called Bush and said there would be great
suffering during war Bush said
everything
would be under control
2003 Tariq Aziz gave presser saying US was after Iraq’s oil
2004 Ex-White House counterterrorism chief Clarke told 9/11
Commission Iraq not
behind 1993
World Trade Center bombing
2008 PM Maliki launched Charge of Knights against Mahdi Army
in Basra He arrived in
Basra to
oversee operation
2009 Sahwa commander in Salahaddin said that Ansar al-Sunna
and ISI had
created new
alliance
2010 Maliki announced new anti-corruption campaign
2011 Riot at Rusafa prison over overcrowding
2012 Baghdad and Irbil agreed to increased joint patrols in
Diyala
2013 Naqshibandi sent group to Ramadi protest site to try to
push it towards
violence
against govt
2014 After Burhiz, Kirkuk retaken from IS Hashd killed at
least 2 civilians and
burned
homes
2016 Most ruling parties refused to send candidates for
technocratic cabinet to Abadi
2016 Supreme Council suspended its ministers in govt
2016 Head of IS Military Council Anbari killed
View the Iraq History Timelines
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