1918 11 leaders of Najaf revolt executed in Kufa by British
1940 Iraq Foreign Min Said said England and France should grant Syria and Palestine Independence
to counter Axis propaganda
1941 British attacked Iraqis 6 miles up from Basra city 10th Indian Div ordered to head north
(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 Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1948 Iraqi forces took Geulim and reached Kfar Yona and Ein Vered 1st Arab-Israeli War
1963 Arif govt announced it foiled a coup plot
1963 Talabani met with Egypt’s Nasser to talk about Kurdish demands 1st time Kurds got
audience in wider Arab world
(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)
1981 New Pres Mitterrand told Saddam France would support him during war
1983 Turkey launched first cross border raid under Iraq-Turkey security agreement 7,000 Turkish troops
moved 18 mi into Kurdistan to attack PKK bases
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
1983 Iraq offered to end bombing of Iranian civilians
1985 Dawa bombed motorcade of Emir Jaber Sabah ruler of Kuwait for his support of Iraq in Iran-Iraq
War
(Musings On Iraq Interview with Lowy Institution’s Shanahan on history of the Dawa Party)
(Musings On Iraq review The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq)
1988 Iraq started Op Tawakalna ala Allah to clear Fish Lake Basra and force Iran into negotiations to end
war Used chemical weapons Took 6 miles
(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)
1999 Clinton Natl Sec Adv Berger met with 7 Iraqi opposition parties receiving US funds Told them
president wanted Saddam removed by end of his term
2003 5,000 Iraqis protested outside Green Zone demanding a new govt security salaries for soldiers
2003 CPA order 5 created DeBaathification Council Would be run by Ahmed Chalabi
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
2003 Inspection team examined 2 captured trailers Immediately found they weren’t mobile WMD labs
as originally thought
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
2003 Kirkuk council elected 6 members then arrested by US for alleged Baathist ties
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
2007 Ret Gen Keane told VP Cheney Surge needed to be sustained until 2008
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
(Musings On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On Reassessing the Surge)
2007 UK killed Mahdi Army commander for Basra Abu Qader leading to 2 days of fighting in city
2007 Sadr gave Friday sermon forbidding attacks upon Sunnis and Christians His Mahdi Army was still
cleansing Sunnis from Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2008 Report insurgents fled to Tikrit and Ramadi during Mother of Two Springs operation in Mosul
2008 Mayor of Mosul escaped 4th bombing attempt on his life in 10 days Came day after Mother of Two
Springs op to clear city ended
2008 US Amb Crocker said ISI had been severely disrupted in Iraq
2008 US and ISF conduct weapons searches in Sadr City Arrested 200 Mahdi Army militiamen in Amil
and Baya
2008 Report Sadrists paid $300 for anyone that attacked UK forces in Basra Money came from Iran
2008 PM Maliki attempted to assert control over Basra after Charge of Knights by firing Fadhila officials
who ran province Replaced heads of South Oil Company Basra Airport Oil Tankers Company Basra Refinery
2009 PM Maliki accepted resignation of Trade Min Sudani charged with corruption Was accused
of stealing $400 mil for Maliki’s State of Law
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen on Iraq’s fight with corruption)
(Musings On Iraq interview with former anti-corruption official Vincent Foulk)
2011 Iraq ranked 2nd to last in Global Peace Index
2011 Dep PM Shahristani said Iraq could not defend itself after US withdrawal at end of year
2012 Dawa held march in Baghdad to support PM Maliki during no confidence drive against him
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2012 Baghdad said that all Kurdish oil deals with Turkey had to be approved by the central govt
2013 Mutahidun accused PM Maliki of backing militias with government money
2014 Anbar Operations Command claimed 90% of Ramadi freed ISIS still occupied major parts of city
2014 Anbar Operations Command said 40 attempts to take Fallujah from Jan-May 2014 and all failed
2014 Sadrists threatened to go into opposition if PM Maliki got 3rd term
2018 Protesters in Basra blocked main road with burning tires over lack of services
View the Iraq History Timelines
1922 Cleric Khalisi informed southern tribes British were trying to get their way in new Anglo-
Iraq Treaty
1941 Mufti of Jerusalem told Italians Arab revolt hinged on Iraq and it needed more support
(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 Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1982 Iran’s Op Beit al-Moqaddas ended Took Khorramshahr in south Iraqi forces pushed back to border
in Khuzistan province Regained 2,077 sq mi of Iranian territory Iraq lost 9,000 dead 15,000 wounded 19,000 prisoners Iran lost 12-15,000 dead 25,000 wounded Saddam had 20 senior officer relieved of command 10 executed
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1982 So far in war Iraq had lost 30,000 dead 35,000 prisoners 20% of its artillery 40% of its planes 60%
of its tanks Half its ground forces Iran has also recaptured 90% of the territory Iraq seized in 1980
1982 Israeli press reported US sent arms to Egypt which were then sold to Iraq
(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)
1990 US National Security Council deputies meeting told that US still sharing intelligence with Iraq
1999 Sec State Albright met with 7 Iraqi opposition groups receiving US funds Said US would provide
them nonlethal aid
2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld issued order to Joint Chiefs to begin Phase Four postwar planning for Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s “Hard Lessons” – Part I: Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)
(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 1st time CPA paid Iraqi govt workers
2004 Bush said US would stay the course in Iraq and move towards returning sovereignty and creating
democracy in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
2005 SCIRI’s Hammoudi named head of constitutional drafting committee Deadline to finish
document was August 15
(Musings On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on Iraq’s constitution)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq book review The Struggle For Iraq’s Future, How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy)
2006 Joint Chiefs intel report said insurgency enduring despite political progress and growth of ISF Said
violence would increase into 2007
2006 Report police and army full of militias insurgents and criminals carrying out abuses and sectarian
violence US officials and military apologized for former Inter Min Jabr from ISCI and Badr saying they weren’t responsible for police abuses
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2006 PM Maliki said he wanted to reign in militias and demobilize them Went to Najaf to try to get
Ayatollah Sistani to make statements against militias
2006 Iraqi Army’s 16th Brigade in charge of Dora south Baghdad ran death squads and assassinations in
conjunction with insurgents Killed its own commander
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2007 Funeral for Sheikh Issawi from Awakening hit by suicide car bomb in Fallujah 34 killed 66
wounded Part of ISI targeting Awakening sheikhs
(Musings On Iraq Demise, But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Fallujah Redux author Daniel Green on Fallujah during the Surge)
(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 Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2011 Anbar councilman blamed Syria for allowing insurgents to cross its border into Iraq
2011 Trade Min Sudani accused of stealing $245 mil while in office Helped fund PM Maliki’s State of
Law election campaigns in 2009 and 2010
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen on Iraq’s fight with corruption)
(Musings On Iraq interview with former anti-corruption official Vincent Foulk)
2011 Report US forces coming under increased attacks as withdrawal date at end of year approached
2011 US Def Sec Gates went to Iraq to lobby for US troop presence past end of year
(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
(Musings On Iraq review Duty, Memoirs of a Secretary At War)
2012 KRG PM Barzani said that if Baghdad cut off fuel deliveries KRG would export oil independently
2012 Sadr asked National Alliance to replace PM Maliki
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2013 Integrity Comm said it was opening investigation into buying fake bomb detectors Went nowhere
2013 Clash at Ramadi protest site between those for and against turning Anbar into federal region
2013 Imam at Mosul protest site argued for making Ninewa federal region
2013 Sadrist killed fighting in Syria had funeral attended by movement members showing Sadr’s
participation in Syria war
2015 Iranian Ground Forces commander said Iranian military moved 40km into Diyala to protect border
from IS
2015 KRG claimed it met its oil export quota set in 2015 budget and therefore should receive it full
monthly payment from Baghdad
2015 US Def Sec Carter questioned Iraqis’ will to fight after Ramadi fell to IS
(Musings On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
2017 Interior Min announced investigation into abuses by Iraqi forces during Mosul campaign in
response to Der Spiegel article Nothing came of it
(Musings On Iraq on Der Spiegel article on abuses by Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings On Iraq Human Rights Watch called for investigation into Der Spiegel article)
(Musings On Iraq ABC News had follow up to Der Spiegel article on abuses by Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings On Iraq Toronto Star added more to story about abuses by Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings On Iraq reactions to Der Spiegel article on abuses by Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Joint Operations Command attacked Der Spiegel article on abuses by Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings On Iraq Review They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate)
2018 Protests in Karbala and Dhi Qar over electricity shortages
View the Iraq History Timelines
1939 After British White Paper on Palestine passed PM Said tried but failed to convince the Mufti
of Jerusalem to support it
1941 German planes attacked British forces in Fallujah Iraqi artillery shelled Town
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s First Battle Of Fallujah 1941)
1941 Hitler Order 30 Germany would support Arabs against British especially in Iraq
1941 UK Mid-East cmdr Gen Wavell and Indian cmdr Gen Auchinlek met in Basra Decided to send
forces to Baghdad and more to be sent from India to Iraq
(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 Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1959 Egyptian press claimed British intel planning pro-UK coup in Iraq Afterward Iraq would sign peace
treaty with Israel Part of anti-Iraq propaganda by Nasser
1959 Communists officially gave up demands for positions in Qasim govt
(Musings On Iraq review The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology)
(Musings On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1963 Curfew imposed and security zones set up around oil installations in north in
preparation for new offensive against Mullah Mustafa Barzani
(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)
1966 Arif govt called on Kurds to surrender or face annihilation
1969 Pres Bakr offered self-determination to Kurds
1982 Iraq invoked Arab League 1950 defense agreement to get military aid from members Got nothing
League divided over war
1988 Iraq launched offensive to re-capture all of its lost territory from 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)
1988 Towns in Balisan Valley, Sulamaniya hit by chemical weapons in 5th Anfal campaign
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)
1991 For third time Kurds attacked police station in Zakho during negotiations with Baghdad over
autonomy
1991 UN announced 500 guards would be sent to Kurdish provinces to deal with relief centers for
displaced after 1991 Uprising
2002 During trip to Germany Bush said he had no Iraq war plans Part of strategy to work on war plans
while publicly denying it
(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)
(Musings On Iraq review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The Decision To Invade Iraq)
2003 Bush said he supported Bremer’s political plan for Iraq
2003 CPA Order 2 disbanded Iraqi military
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Baghdad at Sunrise, A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Interview with CSU San Marco’s Prof Marashi Development And Setbacks Of The Current Iraqi Military)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 Congress asked CIA to look into its pre-war intel on WMD after none found
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2004 Sadr’s brother in law Riyadh Nouri arrested
2005 Sunni MPs accused Badr Brigade of carrying out sectarian killings
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2007 Dep PM Zubaie wounded by suicide bomber
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2007 ISI assassinated Sheikh Issawi from Albu Issa tribe Member of the Awakening Part of campaign to
kill Awakening leaders
(Musings On Iraq Demise, But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Fallujah Redux author Daniel Green on Fallujah during the Surge)
(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)
2007 Bush said in Jan 05 bin Laden told Zarqawi to create a cell to plan attacks upon US homeland
Counterterrorism officials contradicted claim
2007 Constitutional Review Comm told parliament it had draft report on amending constitution Then
asked for 1 month extension to gain consensus Nothing came of it
(Musings On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on Iraq’s constitution)
2008 Clerics denied Sistani issued fatwa allowing attacks on US forces
2010 ISF blamed US releasing prisoners for increase in violence In 2008 PM Maliki had negotiated
quicker release of prisoners by US
2011 Adviser to Diyala governor arrested by PM Maliki to intimidate province to not move towards
federal region to protest his govt
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2012 Iraq hosted nuclear talks between Iran and six countries
2013 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri said that Baghdadi was wrong for declaring ISIS without asking permission
first
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2013 Mutahidun accused PM Maliki of supporting militias and targeting civilians
2013 Sheikh Hayes said Ramadi protesters had 2 days to turn over those who killed 5 soldiers
2013 State of Law offered ISCI control of 3 southern provinces in return for control of Basra ISCI turned down offer
2014 Babil Operations Command claimed Jurf al-Sakhr freed from IS Would not be liberated until Oct
2014
2014 Gorran accused PUK of cheating in Sulaymaniya vote
2014 KRG said it sold 1st tanker of independent oil exports Oil Ministry filed legal papers over sale
2015 Report Iranians operating rockets, artillery and drones in Baiji operation to free refinery from IS
2016 Final campaign to liberate Fallujah started Five weeks later city would be freed
2017 Der Spiegel ran article documenting abuses by Rapid Reaction unit during Mosul campaign Unit
denied story released video of its victims denying that they had been abused and then attacked author of article Joint Operations Command also claimed author was making up story and if any torture had taken part he was partly responsible since he witnessed it
(Musings On Iraq on Der Spiegel article on abuses by Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings On Iraq Human Rights Watch called for investigation into Der Spiegel article)
(Musings On Iraq ABC News had follow up to Der Spiegel article on abuses by Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings On Iraq Toronto Star added more to story about abuses by Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings On Iraq reactions to Der Spiegel article on abuses by Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Joint Operations Command attacked Der Spiegel article on abuses by Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
2017 Hashd freed Qairawan subdistrict of Sinjar Ninewa from IS
View the Iraq History Timelines
1919 Sheikh Mahmoud Barzanji started rebellion against British in Sulaymaniya
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
1941 Iraq attempt to recapture Fallujah failed
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s First Battle Of Fallujah 1941)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Regent of Iraq along with Nuri al-Said arrived at British base at Habaniya, Anbar Said sent letter to
Iraqi commander in Ramadi who agreed to switch sides
(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 Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1948 Iraqi army defeated in Battle of Gesher and retreated to West Bank in 1st Arab-Israeli War
1959 National Democratic Party Economic Min said that party suspended its activities and called
on others to do same Aimed at reducing power of Communists
(Musings On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1975 PUK formed when Maosit Komala led by Nirshurwan Mustafa social democratic Bezutnawa
led by Ali Askari and KDP’s Talabani joined
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1979 Start of 9 days of protests against Bakr govt led by Dawa
(Musings On Iraq Interview with Lowy Institution’s Shanahan on history of the Dawa Party)
(Musings On Iraq review The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq)
1981 Iraq counterattack against Iran Op Imam Ali in Susangard Khuzistan in south failed
1984 Reagan briefed on study that said there should be a military embargo on both Iran and Iraq Reagan
agreed to policy
1986 US Amb to Iraq asked Eximbank to open up new lines of credit to Iraq to help it through Iran-Iraq
War
(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 Saddam Tapes)
(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)
2003 UN Res 1483 made US and England occupying powers of Iraq and ended sanctions on Iraq Also
created Development Fund for Iraq to help pay for rebuilding using oil revenue
2003 Bremer told Bush Iraq needed new constitution then elections then sovereignty returned Also
proposed disbanding Iraqi military Bush approved Bremer also told NSC and no one objected Reversed Pentagon-ORHA plan to recall army for security and rebuilding
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 CPA and official from Def Sec Rumsfeld’s office drafted CPA Order 2 to disband Iraq’s military
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
2003 Story CIA started internal review of its pre-war Iraq intelligence
2004 Neocon supporters of INC’s Chalabi told NatlSecAdv Rice that US needed to stop harassing him
Came after US forces raided Chalabi’s house claiming he had passed intel to Iran
(Musings On Iraq review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)
(Musings On Iraq review America at the Crossroads, Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy)
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)
(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)
2004 INC met with Nat Sec Adv Rice complaining US had abandoned Chalabi
2005 Joint US-Iraqi operation started to clear Abu Ghraib in west Baghdad
2005 Sadr sent delegation to meet Sunni clerics in an attempt to stop sectarian violence
2006 Bush said Iraq at a turning point and heading in right direction towards democracy Said PM Maliki
govt turning point for Middle East
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2006 Report US failure to adequately plan for Iraqi police led to militia and criminal take over 2004
US military took over police training and still inadequate Gen Eaton put in charge of effort in March 2004 and his budget was cut 20% Said that showed not priority in Washington Summer 2005 Gen Petraeus took over program and claimed he began meaningful reforms Audit found 5,000 Iraqi police had criminal records including taking part in insurgency Pre-war Bush admin thought Iraqi police not an issue and rejected Justice Dept plan to use 1000s of police advisers US initially hoped Basra police would be early success because back on duty in 03 and no insurgency but quickly taken over by gangs political parties militias Politicians appointed police chiefs in Basra who hired friends relatives tribesmen Came to be dominated by Badr and Mahdi Army Basra police carrying out sectarian violence and enforcing religious rules of militias Demanded kickbacks to join force Helped smugglers Summer 05 Basra police chief Gen Sawadi said he didn’t trust his own force and couldn’t control them Interior Ministry tried to reform Basra police but failed Started with Internal Affairs which turned into crime ring Trials failed against corrupt officers British Gen Mackay warned that unless Coalition regulated Iraqi police commandos they would become personal army for Interior Ministry Former Interior Minister Nakib warned Sec Def Rumsfeld in April 2005 that Shiite parties were going to take over commandos with their militias Former Interior Minister Jabr denied any abuses by police and blamed other ministries Jabr let his Badr Brigade take over police and commandos US military played down sectarian killings and abuses by commandos
(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how US failed to develop the Iraqi police)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2006 Report corruption endemic in Iraq Transportation Min bought 2 planes for $3 mil each that should
have been less than $1 mil Defense Min made $1 bil in questionable arms purchases Interior Min had at least 1100 ghost employees costing $1.3 mil a month
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption in Iraq)
2006 Report of 3000 corruption cases in Iraq only 780 went to court Only few dozen got verdict
2006 Of 40 corruption cases against high ranking Iraqi officials only 1 got verdict for Interior Ministry
official
2008 US got ISF to arrest Gen Zamel head of prisons for abuse torture extortion of prisoners extra
judicial killings and providing weapons to Mahdi Army
2011 Red Cross interviewed people tortured by ISF at Camp Honor in Baghdad
2013 Pres Barzani attacked PYD for arresting KDP affiliated group in Syria
2014 KRG provincial election results released Gorran won most seats in Sulaymaniya
2014 Oil Ministry warned potential buyers not to buy 1st shipment of independent KRG oil
2014 Mutahidun and Sadrists rejected 3rd term for PM Maliki
2015 Joint Chiefs Head Gen Dempsey said would take 3 years or more to defeat IS
2016 PM Abadi announced start of attack upon Fallujah in war vs IS
View the Iraq History Timelines
1847 Treaty of Arzurum tried to set border between Ottoman Empire and Persia Gave Sulaymaniya
to Ottomans Shatt al-Arab to Persia Set up commission to demarcate border between Ottomans and Persia but never finished
(Musings On Iraq review An Analysis of Hanna Batatu’s The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq)
1919 UK PM George abrogated Long-Berenger UK-French oil deal due to disagreement
with France over Iraq-Syrian border George wanted Iraq to extend to Mediterranean
(Musings On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921)
1924 Turkey told Constantinople Conference Assyrians should return to Turkey
(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)
1928 British official said Iraqi provincial administrators picked who would be elected to parliament
1941 Iraqis launched counterattack attempting to retake Fallujah from British Entered town
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s First Battle Of Fallujah 1941)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 German planes bombed UK air base at Habaniya for a second day
1941 Iraq launched raids into Basra city suburbs but failed
(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 Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1966 Kurds bombed Kirkuk oil pipeline but did little damage
(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
1970 Pres Bakr issued Agrarian Reform Law to increase living conditions for peasants and increase farm
production
1974 UN Sec Gen said Iran and Iraq agreed to withdraw forces and open talks over border disputes
1981 Iran Op Imam Ali launched to eliminate Iraqi threat to Susangard in Khuzistan in south
1982 Iranian Op Bait al-Moqaddas Broke through Iraqi defenses around Khorramshahr in south Iraqi
forces panicked and started to flee Only 40% made it back to Iraq Iran captured 12,000 prisoners 2000 prisoners summarily executed by 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 Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(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)
1987 2nd phase of govt collectivization program started to destroy Kurdish towns and force people
into govt run villages
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)
1990 US Central Command cmdr Gen Schwarzkopf said Iraq had grievances with Kuwait but didn’t
expect it to use military force
(Musings On Iraq review Unholy Babylon, The Secret History of Saddam’s War)
1991 Kuwait asked for half of Iraq’s oil earnings as reparation for invasion
1999 UN Res 1242 renewed Oil For Food Program for 6th months
2002 Gen Franks lied to press saying he had no Iraq war plans and had not been asked to make any
Franks had been working on war plans since Nov 2001
(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Dep Sec Def Wolfowitz ordered army to help CPA with staff and contracting because CPA
undermanned
2003 Report CIA believed 3 trailers found in Iraq were mobile WMD labs Sec State Powell talked about
in UN speech Didn’t exist
2003 Report that US showed picture of trailers to Iraqi in Germany known as CURVEBALL who
confirmed they were WMD labs
(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)
2004 CPA set up group to integrate militias into ISF Never happened
2006 Report Iran thought to have trained 40,000 militia in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)
2006 Report US failed to adequately plan to rebuild Iraqi police After invasion went through 3 failed
plans By 2004 only sent 500 police advisers for all of Iraq
(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how US failed to develop the Iraqi police)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2008 CENTCOM commander Gen Dempsey said ISI at its weakest point in Iraq
2008 US commander for northern Iraq said attacks in Mosul down 85% after Mother of Two Springs op
there
2008 Pres Talabani said Iraq would be able to handle its own security without help
of US by end of 2008 Didn’t happen
2008 Female suicide bomber hit Sahwa HQ in Anbar
(Musings On Iraq The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2008 Report ISI turned to crime for financing Stealing money from oil industry in Ninewa
and Kirkuk main source of funds Steals oil from pipelines and fuel trucks gets protection money from gas stations and trucks Runs crime gangs Also steals cars and kidnaps for ransom
2009 3 Iranians and Iraqi arms smuggler arrested in Wasit bringing weapons from Iran into Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
2010 Reports that both Iran and US supported 2nd term for PM Maliki
2012 KRG announced energy deals with Turkey Baghdad warned KRG it could not sign independent oil
deals with Turkey
2012 Oil Min Shahristani ordered ministry to stop petrol deliveries to KRG Would later deny he gave
order
2013 Sheikh Hayes threatened to tear down protest tents in Ramadi if didn’t disperse after attacks on ISF
and kidnappings
2013 KRG said it wanted to build a second independent oil pipeline to Turkey
2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq blamed US and PM Abadi for fall of Ramadi Claimed US had kept Hashd out
Hashd had been in Anbar for months
(Musings On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
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