1973 Continued fighting between Israeli and Iraqi forces in Syria
1989 US Agriculture Dept memo said US loans meant to support Iraq buying food products were being
used to buy tech for weapons programs
1996 PUK counterattacked Recaptured Sulaymaniya from KDP with Iranian support Baghdad made deal
with Iran to allow PUK back into Kurdistan to counter KDP
1997 Heavy fighting restarted between KDP and PUK during civil war
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
2000 Iran’s Foreign Minister Kharrazi visited Iraq for 3 days Highest ranking Iranian official to visit
Iraq since 1979 Revolution After Karrazi’s trip Iran announced Iran and Iraq would re-open discussion on border and POW issue largely ended
2004 PM Blair told parliament that Iraq Study Group proved Saddam wanted WMD and violated UN
resolutions
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2004 Mass grave with hundreds of Kurds killed by Saddam in 1987-88 discovered in Hatra Ninewa
2004 PM Allawi said that if Fallujah didn't turn over Zarqawi would be major operation to take city
City council refused to do so
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
2006 Mujahedeen Shura Council became ISI Announced Islamic State in Baghdad Anbar Diyala
Kirkuk Salahaddin Ninewa Babil
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2006 New ISI announced Abu Omar al-Baghdadi emir of Islamic State
(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on who was Abu Omar al-Baghdadi)
2006 Report splits within ISI between Zarqawi’s lieutenants and followers of military chief Masri
2006 Interior Min Bolani said he had PM Maliki’s backing to purge ministry of sectarian actors Same
time denied its forces were involved in sectarian killings Blamed Facilities Protection Service and imposters using police uniforms
2006 Report Talk of PM Maliki stepping down and 5 man council ruling Iraq and declaring martial
law
2006 Report Sadr complained about Shiite death squads using the name of Mahdi Army and backed
by Iranian Rev Guard and Hezbollah
(Musings On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
2006 Insurgents kidnapped 26 Shiite workers from Balad Bodies were found decapitated in neighboring
Dhuluiya Was retaliation for ISI commander being killed in Balad Shiite elders in Balad called on Mahdi Army in Baghdad to send fighters to take revenge
2008 12th Christian killed in Mosul causing more from that community to flee city
(Musings On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Bad Times For Iraq’s Christians)
2015 PM Abadi cabinet approved new pay scale for govt workers to cut costs pushed as reform move
Led to protests by civil workers
(Musings On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
2015 KRG PM Barzani removed four Gorran ministers from KRG cabinet in dispute over Pres Barzani’s
term
2017 PUK Peshmerga withdrew from areas of Bashir and Taza in south Kirkuk ceding territory to Iraqi
forces
(Musings On Iraq Escalation In Iraq Continues After KRG Referendum, The Kirkuk Challenge)
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2017 PM Abadi gave Kurds 48 hours to vacate territory military bases oil fields occupied in 2014 by
Peshmerga
2017 Fighting broke out between Peshmerga and Hashd in Tuz Kharmato again
(Musings On Iraq Kurds Fall Back To 2014 Borders)
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