1924 First elections held in
Iraq Was for Constituent Assembly
1940 England decided to send Indian Div to Basra after PM
Gaylani wanted to block
British
troops moving through Iraq as part of Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1940 UK Cmdr in Middle East Gen Wavell thought sending
British troops to Iraq would
destabilize
region so Indian Div sent to Egypt instead
1967 General Tahir Yahya became premier 2nd time
Was later charged with corruption
1978 Former Prime Minister Naif died from gunshot wounds
from assassination attempt
by Iraqi
agents in London
1978 England would expel Iraqi diplomats and intel officers
for Naif assassination Iraq
retaliated by expelling British
diplomats arresting British businessmen Embargo on UK
1988 Iraq recaptured 14 mountain peaks in Panjwin area of
Kurdistan
1990 Gulf OPEC members met and agreed to follow quotas which
Iraq had been
demanding
1991 UN set up camps at Lake Hammar to take in displaced
from southern marshes
but govt
did not allow people to enter
2002 Pentagon Defense Policy Board met over Iraq invasion plans
Angry
military
not thinking innovatively Wanted generals fired
2003 Iraqi police demonstration in Baghdad saying US forces
in city led to attacks
upon police
2003 Powell told ABC that captured trailers were Iraqi
mobile WMD labs
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2008 2 Sadrist politicians and an Iraqi army officers said
Hezbollah ran two training
camps in Basra since 2006 Up to 10
Hezbollah operatives trained Special Groups there Closed during Charge of
Knights
2008 Sadrist politicians and army officer said Hezbollah
involved in Jan 07 Asaib Ahl
Al-Haq raid on Karbala that killed
US soldiers and involved in AAH kidnapping of 5 Britons from Finance Min in
Baghdad May 07
(Musings
On Iraq article on Hezbollah presence in Iraq)
2012 During visit to Irbil Pres Barzani tried to get Syria’s
Kurdish National Council
and
Democratic Union Party to unite and not align with PKK
2017 PM Abadi declared Mosul freed after 9 month long
campaign Heavy fighting
continued
in city
(Musings On Iraq Interview
with Ret. Col Witty on the Battle of Mosul)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Horizon Client Access’ Alex Mello on Battle of Mosul)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Amnesty International’s Donatella Rovera on Battle of Mosul)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with International Center for Study of Radicalization’s Charlie Winter on how IS
media dealt with its defeat in Battle of Mosul)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with BBC’s Quentin Sommerville on the Battle of Mosul)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Niqash’s Mustafa Habib on Battle of Mosul)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Reuters’ Stephen Kalin on Battle of Mosul)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with AFP’s Ahmad Mousa on Battle of Mosul)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with journalist Florian Neuhof on Battle of Mosul)
View the Iraq History Timelines
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