1639 Treaty of Zuhab ended Ottoman-Safavid War and gave
Ottomans most
of
Mesopotamia
1920 Huge joint Sunni-Shiite demonstration in Baghdad during
Ramadan against
British
rule
1941 British forces set out from Habaniya base to try to take
Fallujah
1941 More British planes landed at Habaniya air base from
Egypt and launched attack
on German
planes in Mosul
1941 British planes shot down 2 German fighters over Baghdad
1941 German liaison officer with Iraqi govt killed by an
Iraqi soldier flying into
Baghdad
1972 Oil Ministry took hardline with Iraq Petroleum Company
in 1st move towards
nationalization
1973 Iraq rejected border agreement with Kuwait saying never
ratified by Iraqi
constitution
1986 Iraq attacked area around Mehran and seized 60 sq mi of
Iranian territory Saddam
said
offensive meant to drive Iran to negotiate peace
1987 Iraqi fighter hit USS Stark with 2 missiles killing 37
US sailors
2003 Iraqi Leadership Group of exiles and Iraqis put
together by Barzani and Talabani
to advise
ORHA head Garner disbanded by Bremer
2003 ORHA head Garner told Bremer he was leaving Iraq Bremer
talked Garner into
staying for
a bit
2003 US-Kurdish agreement allowed 6,000 Peshmerga to be
deployed in Diyala Kirkuk
Ninewa
Salahaddin beyond Green Line
2003 500 Arabs from Hawija attacked Kurds in Kirkuk City
Lasted 36 hrs Were heard
shouting
Saddam slogans Protesting Kurds moving into city after war
2003 Baghdad Univ faculty held election for new leadership
as part of democratiziation
move pushed
by US
2003 CIA interviewed head of Iraq’s centrifuge program Mahdi
Obeidi who asked for
asylum in
US
2004 Report Mahdi Army recruiting Baathist security and
intel officers in Kirkuk for
militia
along with Shiite Arabs and Turkmen
2004 CIA warned that political factionalism in Mosul leading
to instability
2004 Zarqawi killed Iraqi Governing Council head Salim with a
suicide bomber in
Baghdad
2004 Report Rumsfeld authorized special interrogation
program that helped lead to
Abu Ghraib
abuse scandal
2004 Report INC provided defector Adnan Haideri’s stories
about Iraq WMD used by
US pre-war proved false Was used in
CIA DIA White House reports May 02 labeled fabricator by DIA
2005 Association of Muslim Scholars accused police of being
involved in massacres of
Sunni
civilians
2005 Report Albu Mahal and Albu Nimr tribes in Qaim formed
Hamza Forces to fight
Al Qaeda in
Iraq Wento to Marines in Fallujah asking for help
2005 Albu Mahal and Albu Nimr criticized US Op Matador in
western Anbar for
targeting them
when they were fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq
2006 US cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey told NSC sectarian violence
up in Iraq New Baghdad
security plan not working Casey
told Bush Iran providing more EFPs to attack US forces
2009 Head of parliamentary integrity comm said Trade Min
Sudani covered up
his
brothers’ involvement in corruption at ministry
2009 Protest in Shikhan against Hadbaa led Ninewa government
2009 Oil Ministry criticized KRG’s independent oil deals
2010 China’s CNOOC and Turkey’s TPAO signed deal to develop
Maysan oil field
2010 KRG Natural Resource Min said Kurdish oil exports
wouldn’t start until new
Iraqi govt
formed
2011 Interior Min investigation found IS prison break in
Baghdad had inside help
2011 Baghdad Operations Command said most assassinations of
ISF personnel were
done by
militias not ISI
2011 Pres Barzani said he was ready to talk with opposition
parties in KRG parliament
about
reforms
2012 Asayesh arrested 3 Yazidis for attending govt sponsored
conference to intimidate
them to
stay away from Baghdad
2012 Maliki withdrew no confidence request to parliament
against Dep PM Mutlaq to try
to stop no
confidence move against himself
2014 Sheikh Hayes blamed protesters for creating environment
for return of insurgency
in Anbar
2014 4 Kurdish parties accused PUK of cheating in
Sulaymaniya voting
2014 Kurdish parties announced united stance when
negotiation to form new Iraqi govt
2015 Anbar council voted to allow Hashd to deploy to province
Were already there
2015 IS unilaterally began withdrawing from Baiji refinery
after Ramadi taken Used
fighting in
Baiji as diversion
2015 Intl Org of Migration reported 2.8 mil displaced in
Iraq since start of 2014
2016 PUK and Gorran signed power sharing-cooperation deal
Gorran would get
Sulaymaniya governor PUK
Sulaymaniya city mayor
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