1918 Battle of Khan Baghdadi between Ottomans and British started
1975 Iranian premier visited Baghdad and laid out steps to implement
Algiers
Agreement
1979 Iraq hosted anti-Sadat meeting to oppose new
Egypt-Israel peace treaty
1984 US Special Envoy Rumsfeld arrived in Iraq for 2nd
time Rumsfeld presented
secret
proposal for Israeli aid against Iran Iraq rejected offer
1985 Iraq threatened to spread war to all sections of Iran
if it didn’t agree to a peace
settlement
1991 Fierce fighting between Iraqi forces and Peshmerga on
Khanaqin-Jalawla road,
Diyala
1991 Talabani returned to Iraq after 3 years during Kurdish
revolt against Saddam
1991 White House meeting on Iraq revolts Was split over
whether to help Iraqis or not
1991 Bush administration said they would not stop Iraq from
using helicopters to
put down
uprisings
1991 Bush Natl Sec Adv Scowcorft secretly met Saudi King
Fahd who told US to stay
out of 1991
uprising
1996 Jordanian govt held party celebrating opening of Iraqi
National Accord
new HQ in Amman
1996 PUK backed peace deal with KDP although talks had not
worked out
1997 SecState Albright said Iraq not cooperating with
inspections and US would not
remove
sanctions
2003 US forces began move on Kut, Wasit Surrounded Najaf
2003 US 173rd Airborne Brigade landed in northern
Iraq to cooperate with Peshmerga
move into
Kirkuk
2003 Iraq claimed US missile hit market in Baghdad US Air
strikes failed to take Iraq
state TV
off the air
2003 Bush and Blair met at Camp David to discuss Iraq
invasion
2003 ORHA sent list of 16 sites that needed to be protected
in Baghdad to US military HQ
in Kuwait
but was ignored
2003 Rumsfeld told Garner he had some replacements for
Americans going to run Iraq
ministries
Wanted them all from Pentagon
2003 British intel report Hope that Iraqi govt would quickly
fall within days of
invasion fading
2008 Badr Brigade got into shootout in Diwaniya likely with Mahdi
Army elements
2008 Curfews in Kut Hillah Nasiriya Samawa Diwaniya to stop
Sadrist protests
2008 Fighting between ISFand Sadrists continued for 2nd
day in Kut Mahdi Army seized
7 neighborhoods
2008 Fighting between ISF and Mahdi Army in Hillah where
Sadrists took 3 districts
2008 Fighting between ISF and Mahdi Army in Karbala
2008 Sadrists walked out of parliament over govt crackdown
on movement
2008 US and Iraqi forces began moving into Sadr City as
fight against Mahdi Army
moved from
Basra to Baghdad
2008 Fighting between Mahdi Army and ISF in north and east
Baghdad
2008 Sadrists said they would call for a no confidence vote
against Maliki
2008 Maliki gave gunmen 72 hours to turn in weapons in Basra
2008 Fighting resumed in 5 districts of Basra after short
ceasefire
2008 Sadr said he would talk with Maliki if ISF left Basra
2010 Election results announced Iraqiya 91 seats State of
Law 89 National Alliance 70
Kurdish
Alliance 43
2010 Pres Talabani and VP Mahdi went to Tehran to talk about
national elections
2010 State of Law met with Sadr in Qom to try to win his
support for 2nd Maliki
administration
2010 State of Law protest in Amara called for recount in
national elections
2010 Human Rights Min said it found 84 mass graves in
Baghdad and Diyala all from
post-03 violence
2011 Maliki warned of sectarian conflict in Gulf after Saudi
Arabia and UAE sent
troops to
Bahrain
2011 Peshmerga announced withdrawal from parts of Kirkuk
after political protests
2012 KRG said it would stop oil exports if it didn’t get
paid for what it had already
shipped
Claimed owed $1.5 bil by Baghdad
2012 Pres Talabani announced national conference to solve political
differences over
Maliki govt
on Apr 5 Barzani and Allawi said they wouldn’t attend
2013 Cabinet said that it agreed to meet major demands of
protesters dealing with
arrests, amnesty, etc Never did
2014 Sadr condemned militias in Diyala after several reports
of them killing civilians
and
destroying property
2014 Mutahidun said militias had killed civilians in Buhriz
and destroyed houses
and mosques
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