1920 San Remo Agreement created
British Mandate in Iraq France agreed to
give
up Mosul vilyat in return for oil concessions in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq)
1929 Iran officially recognized Iraq as a country Hadn’t
before due to complaints of
mistreatment
of Persians in Iraq
1991 Kurdish parties agreed to deal with Saddam including
autonomy to end
revolt
after Gulf War
1991 Turkey told UN 30,000 Iraqi Kurds had entered Turkey in
2 days and 220,000
were on
there way as Kurdish uprising put down
1994 Iraqi govt announced completion of Mother of all
Battles Irrigation Canal meant to
drain
southern marshes to drive out displaced and rebels
1995 Turkey’s Op Steel ended Withdrew 20,000 troops but left
15,000 in Kurdistan
1998 Was story that bin Laden sent delegation to Iraq for
Saddam’s birthday and
Uday agreed
to train Al Qaeda Report false
2002 For Sec Straw said UK had to stand up to “bullies” like
Saddam
2002 IAEA report that during inspections in 1990s Iraq’s
nuclear program was
dismantled
and no ability to produce nuke material
2003 US arrested ex-Iraq Amb to Tunisia Farouk Hijazi who
reportedly met with Al
Qaeda in
90s and cited as proof of Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2003 Bush said Iraq’s WMD were either hidden or were
destroyed but US would find
them
2003 White House official told NY Times Iraq may not have
had WMD just agents to
make them
2003 Only Iraqi policemen to help US in Fallujah executed
outside his house
2003 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Franks said didn’t know how long it
would take to
rebuild and
stabilize Iraq
2003 Iraqi opposition met in Madrid but failed to agree on
an interim govt
2004 Marine generals met with Iraqis to discuss creating a
Fallujah brigade after 1st
battle of
Fallujah
2005 Iraq Survey Group found Gulf War and UN sanctions
destroyed Iraq’s WMD
programs
and Saddam didn’t try to rebuild them
2005 Iraq Survey Group found no evidence that Iraq’s WMD
were sent to Syria
2005 White House said Iraq Survey Group found Saddam wanted
WMD in the future
2006 Memo by Gen McCaffrey said that Iraqi army was making
real progress but was
badly
equipped lacking armor air support etc
2006 Memo by Gen McCaffrey said Iraqi police heavily
infiltrated by insurgents and
militias Said that Al Qeada in Iraq
had been defeated as a strategic threat to the Iraqi govt
2008 Sadr said he was only opposed to US occupation not
Maliki govt
2008 Report Badr and Mahdi Army setting up checkpoints and
killing each other in
Qadisiyah and Baghdad
2008 Maliki said all parties supported his crackdown on Sadr
and sign of reconciliation
2008 Maliki said if Sadr disarmed dropped politics turn in
wanted militiamen would
stop Charge of Knights
2008 Fmr Under Sec of Def Feith said he warned of postwar
chaos in Iraq but
was ignored
and Pentagon was on top of issue not State or CIA
2009 Gorran List founded by former PUK leader Mustafa
2009 Shiites protest in Khalis, Diyala claiming Baathists
taking over new provincial
council after elections
2009 Arab tribes in Makhmour and Qaraj demanded Asayesh
withdraw claiming
harassment
2010 Iraqi Airways flew to London for first time in 20 years
2010 Court upheld Accountability and Justice Comm banning 52
winning candidates
for
Baathist ties
2011 Maliki claimed power had been decentralized in response
to national protests
2011 ISF tried to stop protesters from gathering in Mosul
Led to clash killing 1
demonstrator
and wounding 9 others
2011 Protest in Ramadi demanding US withdrawal close secret
prisons and stop
Iranian
influence in country
2011 Peshmerga Minister accused Kurdistan Islamic Group and
Kurdistan Islamic
Union of
being saboteurs and fostering jihadists
2011 Kurdistan Islamic Union said KRG had cut its monthly
budget
2011 Soldiers and KDP security got into shoot out in Kirkuk
City after brother 12th Div
commander killed a taxi driver and
was arrested
2011 Speaker Nujafi said Iraq didn’t need US troops anymore
and any extension
would have
to go through parliament
2012 Accordance Front and Iraqiya threatened no confidence
vote against Maliki unless
he followed Irbil power sharing
agreement
2012 Pres Barzani said that unless Maliki shared power would
be a revolt by
other
ruling parties Said Maliki was like a dictator
2013 Maliki gave TV speech saying security would be restored
after ISF attack
on Hawija
protest site led to spike in violence
2013 Heavy fighting in Mosul 10 police and 31 insurgents
killed
2014 Boko Haram pledged support to ISIS
2014 US sent intelligence officers to assist Iraq with
fighting insurgency, started
training
Iraqi Special Forces in Jordan
2014 KRG offered North Oil Company to use its pipeline to
Turkey
2014 Report that insurgents were split over whether to
support elections or not
2015 Abadi said Hashd should include all Iraqis from all
backgrounds
2015 Kudish Alliance said opposed National Guard in disputed
areas because
peshmerga
could secure them
2015 Yazidi militia leader Haider Sesho said that Yazidis
would form their own
party in
Sinjar and be independent of KDP
2015 IS took over army base in Thar Thar, Anbar 141 soldiers
killed in fighting
2017 Turkey bombed PKK positions in Sinjar Ninewa
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