1920 Treaty of Sevres started the break-up of the Ottoman
Empire after
World War I Included ceding
Mesopotamia to the British Included call for a Kurdish state Turkey rejected
Treaty Also claimed Mosul province citing Madrid armistice when British forces
only held small part of vilyat
1933 Kurds and Arabs looted Assyrian farms south of Dohuk
1987 Iraq began bombing campaign against Iran’s Tabriz oil
field Iran said it would
make
Persian Gulf a killing field in retaliation
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
1990 Arab League split over Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait Did
vote to demand Iraq
withdrawal
return of Sabah family to power troops to defend Saudi Arabia
1990 Saddam speech called on Arabs and Muslims to rise up
against the US in jihad
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Univ of Penn’s Dr Samuel Helfont on Saddam and
Islam)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Compulsion In Religion, Saddam Hussein, Islam, and
the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq)
1992 Govt curfew in Najaf to try to stop march after death
of Ayatollah Khoei
2003 Report British govt said it had independent intel to
support Iraq-Africa uranium
deal after
US said story weak Story was false
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Report CIA denied contradictory stories about aluminum
tubes White House used
tubes in its first public relations
campaign against Iraq claiming it had renewed nuke program
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2006 US cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey said more civilians killed by
Shiite militias than
insurgents
in Baghdad
2008 PM Maliki turned Op Promise of Good in Diyala from
huting insurgents to
confrontation with Kurds over
disputed area in Khanaqin Baghdad called for Peshmerga to withdraw from Jalawla
Kurds refused saying they only followed KRG
(Musings
On Iraq article on PM Maliki dispute with Kurds over Khanaqin)
2017 ISCI’s Basra Gov Nasrawi resigned over corruption
charges
2017 Parliament’s integrity committee banned travel for
Basra Gov Nasrawi
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