1920 Gertrude Bell wrote that Baghdad started the 1920
Revolt but not lost
control of it when tribes rose up
and they listened to no one Baghdad did not start revolt
(Musings
On Iraq review Reclaiming Iraq, The
1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
(Musings
On Iraq review Gertrude Bell And Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Gertrude Bell,
Explorer of the Middle East)
(Musings
On Iraq movie review Letters from Baghdad)
1933 Iraq-French meeting Iraq told new border meant
Assyrians who tried to get into Syria
were
actually still in Iraq French didn't want them in Syria
(Musings
On Iraq review The Tragedy of the
Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review State and Society in
Iraq)
1983 Iran Op Wa al-Fajr 2 captured Haj Omran pass and Mount
Kerde Mand in Iraqi Kurdistan
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1985 Iranian Op Al Quds 4 in Mandali Diyala
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1988 Iraq began Op Eternal Light using Mujahedeen e-Khalq
attacking towards Kormanshah
Advanced 60 miles Took 2 Iranian towns
with Iraqi air support hoping to start revolt against Khomeini
1988 Iran and Iraq foreign ministers met to discuss
ceasefire
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper 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)
1988 PUK decided to withdraw from Balisan Valley Hit by
chemical weapons while retreating
2001 Last of 4 NSC Deputies Committee meetings on revising
Iraq policy
2005 US Army interrogators testified that dogs sleep
deprivation and nudity all used on
prisoners
held at Abu Ghraib
2007 Truck bomb in Baghdad’s Karrada market killed 92
wounded 127
(Musings
On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A
People’s History, 2003-2009)
2007 US general said militias more accurate in targeting
Green Zone because of training from Iran
(Musings
On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
2007 Audit Bechtel only finished half of its contracts Other
half either canceled cut back or didn’t
finish US
only had 2 people to oversee contracts
2010 ISI bombed Al Arabiya TV station
2012 Protests in Basra against lack of electricity
2014 Ansar al-Islam refused to give allegiance to IS in
Sadiya Diyala Led to fighting
between two
with IS winning
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2015 Protest in Nasriaiya over power shortages
2017 Court issued arrest warrant for head of Salahaddin
council for corruption
2018 Protest at West Qurna 2 field in Basra Tried to set up
sit-in camp Broken up by ISF
Another
protest at Zubayr oil field went off peacefully
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