1915 UK forced to retreat from Muzaira, Basra due to bad weather and flooding
1917 British attacked Sannaiyat outside Kut but failed to take Ottoman positions Suffered 575 casualties
1981 UN Rep Palme went to Iran and Iraq for 3rd time to try to negotiate ceasefire
1986 Iran started attack to gain more ground in Faw Peninsula in Basra
(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 Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1995 Temporary ceasefire made between PUK and KDP during civil war
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
1998 Clinton told Pentagon US had to stop Iraq from getting WMD and nuclear weapons and Baghdad
had to allow unfetted UN inspections
2003 U2 spy planes began flying over Iraq for UN weapons inspectors
2003 Turkish parliament delayed vote to allow deployment of US troops for Iraq invasion due to
domestic opposition
2003 IAEA found that Iraq-Niger uranium docs were fakes
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
2004 Sadrist representative Daraji said Sadr wanted peaceful protests against US occupation
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
2005 Report Iraqi Natl Guard and Peshmerga commander in charge of Kurdish Natl Guard units in
Ninewa said that Arabs needed to be treated roughly and with force otherwise they would rise up Kurdish soldiers said they didn’t trust Arab soldiers and would not take orders from their Arab officer
2007 3 car bombs in Baghdad killed 74 and wounded over 100
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2007 VP Hashemi called for Mahdi Army to be placed on terrorist list by US
2007 Report Mahdi Army staying off Baghdad streets as Surge started
2008 2 car bombs at Awakening meeting in Anbar killed more than 20
2008 Sadr announced end of truce with ISCI made in Oct 07 Didn’t stop fighting between two parties
2008 Report 2007 avg 200 attacks per day against ISF Start of 2008 only avg of 82 per day
2008 Report Almost half of displaced said they wouldn’t return to old neighborhoods because
demographics changed in civil war Baghdad’s Adil neighborhood 70% of violence caused by conflicts between returnees and squatters occupying their homes ISF helped Shiites keep homes by arresting Sunnis and not allowing families back
2008 US accused Iran of increased arms shipments to militias in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
2010 PM Maliki speech in Qadisiya Said most banned candidates were former intel officers under Saddam
who were trying to infiltrate parliament
2010 Report Dawa and ISCI TV stations running ads about crimes of Saddam as part of 2010
election campaign Maliki made Baathist return his main issue
2010 PM Maliki called for majority govt instead of national unity one after 2010 election Kurdish
Alliance rejected idea Said govt was failing because Maliki an autocrat
2011 Protests in Sulaymaniya began demanding reform in KRG Attacked KDP HQ Fired upon by guards
killing 2
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
2012 Mahoum Sarkhi offices set on fire Blamed on followers of Ayatollah Sistani
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