1916 German commander of the Ottoman forces in Mesopotamia Gen Goltz died of typhoid in
Baghdad
1916 2nd Battle of Sannaiyat by Kut began with British attack upon Ottoman positions
1920 Start of San Remo meeting with Britain France Italy and Japan Decided on split up of Ottoman
Empire and create Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
1922 Colonial Sec Churchill said King Faisal’s demand that mandate be dropped from Iraq impossible
under League of Nations that created mandate
(Musings On Iraq Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1936 Palestinian general strike began Nuri al-Said offered to mediate between Palestinians Jews UK
Believed he could make a grand deal to solve Palestinian issue Believed Palestine could then be convinced to join Arab federation with Iraq under Hashemite monarchy
1941 British 20th Inf Brigade finished its landing in Basra and 7 planes flown into Habaniya airbase
(Musings On Iraq review Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1944 PM Said resigned again but Regent didn’t accept it because couldn’t find someone to replace
Said
1945 Baghdad railway strike for wage increase spread to Mosul
1969 Iraq expelled Shiites claiming they were Iranians Backed Iran dissident groups Claimed
Khuzistan as part of Iraq Was response to Shah voiding 1937 Shatt al-Arab Treaty
1981 Dep PM Tariq Aziz said he hoped for better relations with US but skeptical it would happen
1983 Baath meeting in Amara over army desertions in southern Iraq Came up with military
operation to arrest them
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)
1986 Iraq launched 1st of 2 attacks upon Faw-Um Qasr road in Basra Accused of using chemical
weapons
1988 Rafsanjani went on TV saying that war had shifted against Iran
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1990 White House rejected limiting high-tech exports to Iraq that could be used for military
1990 Saddam met with Yasser Arafat Discussed retaliatory attacks upon Israel and
US if Iraq was attacked Told Arafat to take hardline with Israel
(Musings On Iraq Why Did Saddam Threaten Israel Before The 1990 Invasion of Kuwait?)
(Musings On Iraq review the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)
2000 UK intel report said Iraq was continuing with WMD program Said had active biological
program Was looking into building mobile labs based upon info from CURVEBALL defector in Germany Admitted couldn’t confirm anything since UN inspectors left in 1998
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 4.1 Iraq WMD Assessments, Pre-July 2002)
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
2002 UK intel report Iraq not seen as a threat in Middle East except by Kuwait
2003 Protest in Baghdad’s Adhamiya against U.S. occupation
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
2003 Gen Mattis said that U.S. didn’t have enough troops to secure Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
2003 Turkey threatened to send troops if Kurds took over Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)
2003 US afraid Badr infiltrating into Diyala from Iran would start fighting MEK US threatened to
attack Badr if didn’t withdraw in 24 hrs Pulled back into Iran
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2003 Peshmerga found a trailer near Irbil that was a suspected mobile WMD lab Wasn’t
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 US Special Forces made TV broadcast calling on fmr Iraqi soldiers to meet and discuss
rebuilding Mosul
2004 Marines and Fallujah leaders worked out deal for insurgents to turn over heavy weapons They
didn’t
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 A 2nd ex-Iraqi general came forward and offered to organize Fallujah Brigade to secure city
Was agreed upon by Marines
2005 Report US intel discussed what torture techniques they could use on Iraqi prisoners in Aug 03
including electrocution
2005 57 bodies found in Tigris River Believed to be Shiites taken hostages and executed by
insurgents in Madain, Baghdad on Apr 16
(Musings On Iraq U.S. Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 16 – Going West, April-August 2005)
2006 NGO Survey found 19,548 kidnappings from Jan to April 2006
2006 KRG parliament proposed creating Natural Resource Ministry to run region’s oil industry
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2007 ISI announced that Abu Ayub al-Masri was War Minister
2007 Sheikhs met in Ramadi to announce province wide Awakening Council
(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq review Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings On Iraq review The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2008 Phase 3 of Charge of Knights began with sweeps through Hayaniya in Basra and Nasiriya
2008 Sadr threatened war against govt if didn't back down on raids against Mahdi Army in Basra
2008 ISI military chief Muhajir called for all insurgent groups to unite under its banner
2008 Al Karama party announced forming a list of Sahwa in Baghdad technocrats and members of
Islamic Army Eshreen Revolution Brigades Mujahadeen Army to take part in 2009 provincial elections
2009 Iyad al-Samarraie from Iraqi Accordance Front elected speaker of parliament
2010 State of Law called for revote after lost to Iraqiya Charged fraud but no irregularities found
Manual recount ordered for Baghdad based upon PM Maliki complaint Maliki blamed US and Saudis for fraud
(Musings On Iraq Maliki Tries To Cling To Power In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Unraveling, High Hopes And Missed Opportunity In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, The Saudi Struggle For Iraq)
2010 Report Secret prison found at Muthanna Airport in Baghdad Had over 400 prisoners All were
Sunnis arrested in Ninewa during Oct 09 security op
(Musings On Iraq Secret Baghdad Prison Discovered By Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry)
(Musings On Iraq Why Nothing Is Going To Be Done About Abuse In Iraq’s Prisons)
2011 Sulaymaniya govt banned all protests in city Declared state of emergency Police and
peshmerga broke up demonstration
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
(Musings On Iraq How Iraq’s Kurdistan Broke Up Two Months Of Protests)
2011 Report Oct-Nov 02 UK officials met oil executives Blair govt believed UK companies
would get share of Iraq’s oil-gas contracts for UK taking part in invasion Trade Min Symons said she would lobby US for BP Also met with Shell and British Gas
2011 Report KRG PM Salah wrote to Pres Talabani Said leadership of PUK couldn’t handle KRG
anymore Said he was ready to resign Said KDP and PUK were using mafia tactics against media Called for KDP and PUK house cleaning and new ministers
2011 KRG parliament held no confidence vote against Interior Min Sinjari for handling of protests
KDP and PUK backed him MPs threw water bottles at each other
2011 KRG Interior Min Sinjari said protesters didn’t have permits so couldn’t be protected
2011 Reporters Without Borders condemned attacks on journalists in KRG by security forces Said
security forces indiscriminately fired at protesters and reporters Worried govt going after reporters and charging them
2011 Report PM Maliki reaching out to Asaib Ahl Al-Haq to cut into Sadr vote in provincial
election
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2011 Report Used to be 90,000 Sahwa Now around 50,000 Hadn’t gotten govt jobs as promised Not
consistently paid Targeted by ISI Natl Reconciliation Min said 40,000 integrated into govt Rest infiltrated by ISI
(Musings On Iraq Behind The Revival Of The Islamic State in Iraq, Interview With Naval War College Prof Craig Whiteside)
2012 Anbar councilman said province would move towards federal region to protest against PM
Maliki govt
2012 ISI set off car bombs and suicide bomber in Baghdad Kirkuk Samarra Baquba Dibis 36 killed
more than 150 wounded
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2012 After meeting with Turkish officials Pres Barzani accused PM Maliki of moving towards
dictatorship
(Musings On Iraq How The No Confidence Move Against Iraq’s Premier Split The Kurdish Parties)
2012 Oil Min said it would exclude Exxon from May oil and gas auction in retaliation for signing
oil deals with KRG
(Musings On Iraq Exxon Deal With Iraq’s Kurds Gains Powerful New Ally, Ninewa’s Governor, But Will It Backfire On Him?)
(Musings On Iraq How the New Chevron Deal Affects Oil Dispute Between Iraq’s Central Government And Kurdistan)
(Musings On Iraq The State Of The Kurdish Regional Government In Iraq, An Interview With National Defense Univ’s Dr Denise Natali)
2012 Report Violence between followers of Sarkhi and Ayatollah Sistani Sticky bomb on Sistani
envoy in Maysan Other attacks on Sistani followers in Babil Baghdad Karbala Muthanna Qadisiiya Najaf Dhi Qar Basra Sarkhi’s offices bombed in Karbala Najaf Qadisiya Basra Fire bombing of offices in Maysan Dhi Qar Babil Muthanna Sarkhi claimed he had higher clerical status than Sistani
2012 Parliament’s integrity comm evaluated ministry budget execution Said failed to provide
services Said 6 ministers should be removed Education Min only executed 6% of budget Culture 12% Defense 29% Public Works 39% Higher Educ 39% Interior 50%
2013 Checkpoint outside Hawija protest site attacked 1 soldier killed Led to stand off between 2
sides Hawija site was run by Naqshibandi that wanted to provoke confrontation with ISF to push protests towards violence
(Musings On Iraq Hawija The Moment Iraq’s Insurgency Was Reborn)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Resurgent Insurgency Interview With Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi)
(Musings On Iraq Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor of Inside Iraqi Politics)
2014 Head of Ninewa Operations Command accused of extorting money and arresting people for
ransom
2014 Protest in Baghdad and Diwaniya for reform
2014 Army tried to enter Fallujah from north but turned back by insurgents
2014 Report Sadr criticized fatwa by Ayatollah Haeri in Iran Haeri issued fatwa in Mar
2014 banning people from voting for secular candidates Sadr said people should vote for competent candidates
2016 Intl Org for Migration counted over 3.4 mil displaced up from 3.3 mil Was due to war with IS
2017 Report Peshmerga Min signed memo of understanding with US which would provide $20.3
mil/mo for Peshermga for salaries and equipment
2017 PUK said KRG parliament had to meet before independence referendum held
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2017 Kirkuk Gov Najm said KRG independence referendum would include province
2017 Report New Iranian ambassador to Iraq from Revolutionary Guard as usual Was advisor to
Gen Suleimani Was commander of Ramazan base that gave aid to Iraqi opposition during Saddam
2018 Report Oct 2017 Rosneft told Oil Min that Baghdad was not helping company in south Iraq Said it would sign deal with KRG instead Rosneft took over ownership of KRG pipeline to Turkey for $1.8 bil
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2018 Human Rights Watch Report ISF blocking IS families from returning to homes in Mosul Destroyed and confiscated homes and property
2019 Hashd commander said security vacuum from northeast Diyala into east Salahaddin
and south Kirkuk Exploited by IS who had bases there
(Musings On Iraq Can The Islamic State Make A Comeback In Iraq Part 1? Interview With Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Michael Knights)
(Musings On Iraq Can The Islamic State Make A Comeback In Iraq Part 2? Interview With Il Foglio’s Daniele Raineri)
2020 Report Iraq facing difficulties cutting 1.061 mil/bar/day in oil production to meet
OPEC+ quota If cut production run by intl companies would have to pay them for loses Would cut production at state run fields first and not meet quota
2020 Migration Min Mousa said ministry would close displaced file in Ninewa in 2020
Following plan to return all displaced Didn’t happen
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