1916 British arranged a ceasefire with Ottomans in Kut,
Wasit after 146 day
siege
1923 UK’s Iraq committee presented findings and okayed by
cabinet to stay path in
Iraq
1941 PM Gaylani asked Axis for military and financial aid
against British
1947 Iraq left SF Conference on creating UN to protest
creation of Israel
1987 Jordan and Saudis arranged meeting between Saddam and
Syria’s Assad to try to
improve
ties
1990 Report Bush pushed greater economic ties with Iraq
1991 Kurdish refugees began leaving Turkish mountains for
refugee camps in Kurdistan
Baghdad
offered amnesty to Kurds that fled during uprising
2003 Report Bush invaded Iraq to try to transform Middle
East by creating a
democracy
and countering draw of terrorism
2003 White House said evidence Iraq might have destroyed its
WMD right before
war and
that proved war right
2003 Report no WMD found in sites Powell mentioned in his 03
UN speech
2003 Ayatollah Haeri issued fatwa from Iran saying clerics
needed to fill power
vacuum left
by US invasion
2003 Sheikh Naifus of Albu Alwan in Babil arrested for
taking part in executions of
rebels after 91 uprising
2004 Zarqawi announced his group Tawhid wal-Jihad
2004 US announced Iraqi police returning to Fallujah and
would start join patrols
with Iraqi
Civil Defense Forces
2004 Aid agencies claimed Geneva Convention was violated in
Battle of Fallujah due
to civilian
casualties
2006 Maliki told Rice and Rumsfeld he was going to fight
terrorism improve services
clean up
police
2006 Barham Salah said Maliki was step towards
reconciliation
2006 Amb Khalizad took credit for creating new coalition
that appointed Maliki
premier
2007 Congress passed bill calling for US withdrawal from
Iraq by 10/1/07 Was
vetoed by
Pres Bush
2008 Chalabi called Petraeus saying he could speak for
militias to negotiate ceasefire
in Sadr
City
2008 VP Hashemi said Accordance Front interested in ending
its boycott of cabinet
2008 ISF said cleared last Sadr stronghold in Basra
2010 Baath exile faction led by Ahmad Yunis said wanted to
unite with other faction
led by Izzat al-Duri during meeting
in Damascus
2010 Human Rights Watch interviewed prisoners who were held
at secret
prison at
Baghdad Muthanna Airport and tortured by ISF
2010 Kurdish member of Kirkuk council said displaced Arabs
had to leave province
and go home
2011 Maliki admitted his 100 day deadline to reform
ministries was not enough time
2011 State of Law held counter protest in Mosul supporting
Maliki
2011 Ninewa Gov Nujafi called for strike in response to
security forces attacking
protest
camp in Mosul
2012 Sulaymaniya court gave protest organizer life in prison
after policeman killed
at protest
in Halabja
2012 Report that Kurds being threatened and driven out of
Khanaqin district northeast
Diyala
2012 Sadr went to Irbil to meet Pres Barzani over no
confidence vote against Maliki
2013 4 Sunni mosques bombed in Baghdad after noon prayers
2013 Anbar protest leaders called for a popular army to be
formed to protect demo sites
2013 Fallujah protest site announced formation of Pride and
Dignity Army to protect
demonstrators
from ISF
2013 5 Intelligence officers killed at Fallujah protest site
2013 ISF retook Suleiman Beq from insurgents who seized town
for several days
2015 Kataib Hezbollah withdrew from southern Fallujah
claiming Abadi and
US were
preventing it from fighting there
2015 Head of Anbar council announced Abadi okayed recruiting
locals for Hashd
2016 Sadrists protested while parliament voted in 5 new
ministers as part
of Abadi’s
technocratic cabinet
2017 Hashd took Hatra Ninewa
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