Indeed UK invasion of Iraq  prior to 1914 (e.g. immediately  after the discovery of oil in Iran in 1908) might well have precipitated war then with a Germany that was close to completing the Berlin to Baghdad railway and gaining land access to the Indian Ocean [27]. In relation to ruthless..…

It is perilous to impose a new political order on a country stitched together out of three distinct provinces with different strategic significance, as in Iraq’s formation out of regions around Basra, Mosul, and Baghdad. . 46. A dangerous dynamic was set in play when the British writer and..…

Husseini, having fled Palestine during the revolt, helped pro-Nazi generals launch an anti-British rebellion in Iraq in 1941 [which itself engendered a large-scale pogrom against Baghdad’s Jews, the Farhoud]. . ..…

Fuming at the rebellion, Britain declared war and, with British troops advancing on Baghdad, swiftly regained control after al-Gaylani fled to Iran on May 30. ... Despite British forces arriving outside Baghdad, the rampage went on unabated. ..…

The government that ultimately emerged in Baghdad from national elections in 2018—led by President Barham Salih, a British-educated Kurdish leader; Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shia economist and intellectual who lived in France for years and attended an American Jesuit school in..…

With the Nazis finding support among Arabs resentful of British rule, Baghdad was the early base for Nazi Middle East intelligence operations during World War II. . ... A good friend of Hitler’s, al-Husseini arrived in Baghdad in 1939 after evading a British arrest..…

Two years later and six weeks after the outbreak of World War II, in mid-October of 1939, he slipped to Baghdad, where his sympathies for the Italian fascists further alarmed the British. ... British troops ousted the coup on the first day of June — and as they did, anti-Jewish..…

Washington therefore allied with British ideas Military Assistance Programme between Damascus and Teheran, then, in 1958, Baghdad Pact. ..…

Husseini, having fled Palestine during the revolt, helped pro-Nazi generals launch an anti-British rebellion in Iraq in 1941 (which itself engendered a large-scale pogrom against Baghdad’s Jews, the  . ). ..…

Husseini, having fled Palestine during the revolt, helped pro-Nazi generals launch an anti-British rebellion in Iraq in 1941 (which itself engendered a large-scale pogrom against Baghdad’s Jews, the Farhoud). ..…

Two years later and six weeks after the outbreak of World War II, in mid-October of 1939, he slipped to Baghdad, where his sympathies for the Italian fascists further alarmed the British. ... British troops ousted the coup on the first day of June — and as they did, anti-Jewish..…

The new German rail link with Baghdad was out of range of British sea power and their controlled waterways. . ..…

. … The new German rail link with Baghdad was out of range of British sea power and their controlled waterways. ..…

War, thundered US- British propaganda, was urgent and necessary.. I watched with disgust and dismay like myself, who insisted Baghdad had no nuclear weapons.. Almost the entire US and British media were compelled to act trumpeting egregious lies designed to whip up war fever.  ..…

One British official close to the Bush administration told Newsweek, “Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. ..…

The team, led by British Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, was deployed to Baghdad October, and has since focused on administrative and technical details to lay the groundwork for the probe... ..…

This picture provided by British daily The Daily Telegraph shows Khafsa sinkhole just off the Baghdad- Mosul Iraq. British daily newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported that Khasfa sinkhole was the biggest mass in conflict-ridden Iraq as it was the resting place of estimated..…

LONDON - The Bush administration has drafted a stringent plan for inspections that provides for immediate access to all sites in Iraq, including Saddam Hussein's presidential compounds and palaces, and authorizes the use of military force if Baghdad interferes, according to European and U.S...…

Besides containing the last holdouts of Iraq's organized military, Tikrit is thought to harbor paramilitary fighters and some of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq after the war began, offering to wage suicide strikes against American and British troops. . Yesterday, journalists who entered..…

More than 130 American tanks and armored vehicles rolled into Baghdad, crushing a statue of President Saddam Hussein. . British military officials said that Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as 'Chemical Ali,' Hussein's cousin, who ordered the killing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds. . ..…

In 2004, Sadr called for armed resistance and his Mahdi Army suffered heavy losses in pitched battles with American and British forces Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Karbala, and other cities in Shiite provinces of Iraq.. ..…

He warned the king and the British officials that the only choice they have is to issue a fatwa for Jihad. . Al-Nahar, a Baghdad newspaper, reported that [in the 1950s] Muslim scholars gathered around Imam Ali’s Shrine in Najaf and discussed the possibility of issuing the fatwa of jihad. ..…

Iraqi police said 30 suspected fighters linked to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army were grabbed in a pre-dawn house-to-house search by U.S. and Iraqi raiders in two eastern neighborhoods in Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad. Rival Shiite militias are engaged in grabs for power in the..…

Al-Darraji called the operation a natural progression of Baghdad Security Plan and was being conducted in very good way.. He also called for investigation into British-backed Iraqi security force raid on the National Iraqi Intelligence Agency building in the southern port city of Basra. ..…

Condi and Jack -- as the media call the team of Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw -- rushed to Baghdad this month to urge Iraqis to choose minister. ..…

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped the head of CARE humanitarian group Iraq, British-born woman in her 60s. ... Blair's government is weighing U.S request to redeploy some of British soldiers serving Iraq from the relatively southern region of the country to dangerous..…

The ultimatum to the Security Council will then be followed swiftly by an ultimatum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to leave Baghdad or face a punishing onslaught. . U.S., British and Spanish officials were all pessimistic Sunday about the possibility of compromise. ..…

The inspectors left Baghdad on the eve of U.S.-British bombing raid December 1998, and Iraqi government has not allowed them to return. ..…

After a decade of relative prosperity under the protection of U.S. and British jets in the northern no-fly zone, the Kurds have the least interest in a regime change in Baghdad. ..…