The Anglo-Iraqi War was a British-led Allied military campaign during the Second World War against the Kingdom of Iraq, then ruled by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani...
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Kingdom in the formal administration of the Kingdom of Iraq was ended in 1932, following the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1930). Now officially a fully independent...
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The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930 was a treaty of alliance between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British-Mandate-controlled...
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union with Iraq. British forces later defeated the Iraqis in the short Anglo-Iraqi War of May 1941, during the Second World War. The Iraqi Air Force used...
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cabal of pro-Fascist and pro Nazi army officers of the Iraqi armed forces who played a part in Iraqi politics throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. They...
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(1914–1918) Iraqi revolt of 1920 against the British Anglo-Iraqi War (1941) Gulf War (1990–1991) (referred to by some as the First Iraq War) Iraqi no-fly zones...
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many needy Iraqi citizens. Seventh, to secure Iraq's oil fields and resources, which belong to the Iraqi people. And last, to help the Iraqi people create...
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located in Iraq. The Levies distinguished themselves in May 1941 during the Anglo-Iraqi War where Assyrians defeated a large force of 15.000 Iraqi Nazis with...
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(fought on Iraqi territory, but with no Iraqi involvement) Including greater autonomy for Iraq, the installation of Faysal ibn Husayn as King of Iraq, and cancellation...
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Anglo-Iraqi War First Battle of Fallujah, April 2004 operation by US forces against Iraqi guerillas Second Battle of Fallujah, joint American, Iraqi government...
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The Iraqi Ground Forces (Arabic: القوات البرية العراقية), also referred to as the Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي), is the ground force component of...
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The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of October 1922 was an agreement signed between the British and Iraqi governments. The treaty was designed to allow for Iraqi self-government...
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Gloster Gladiator (section Anglo-Iraqi War)
the defence of Malta, the Middle East, and the brief Anglo-Iraqi War (during which the Royal Iraqi Air Force was similarly equipped). Other countries deploying...
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in the face of Anglo-Soviet demands. British forces were already present in sizeable numbers in Iraq as a result of the Anglo-Iraqi War of May 1941. The...
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Fahmi Said (category Iraqi people stubs)
Kamil Shabib, Colonel Said, and Colonel Mahmud Salman. During the Anglo-Iraqi War, the four members of the Golden Square commanded units located in the...
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Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh (category Iraqi Arab nationalists)
responsible as a major advocate of the Anglo-Iraqi War in April and May. Soon after the Iraqi defeat in the Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941, Sabbagh fled to Iran, then...
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8 sq mi) of Iraqi land, and captured 1,800 Iraqi prisoners while Iraq abandoned large quantities of valuable weapons and war materiel in the field. Iraq responded...
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Rashid Ali al-Gaylani (category Iraq in World War II)
the Iraqi demands by launching a pre-emptive strike against the Iraqi forces overlooking the air base. This action initiated the Anglo-Iraqi War. Within...
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Anglo-Iraqi War, when the Iraqi government made a bid for full independence following a coup by Rashid Ali against pro-British Iraqi leaders. The war...
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Kamil Shabib (category Iraqi people stubs)
During the Anglo-Iraqi War, the four members of the Golden Square commanded units located in the Baghdad area. Sabbagh was the commander of the Iraqi 3rd Infantry...
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The division was stationed in Kirkuk in 1941, and was there when the Anglo-Iraqi War took place. Under Saddam Hussein's rule it fought the Kurds in 1961–70...
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during the Iraqi invasion many Kuwaiti military personnel were on leave.[citation needed] By 1988, at the end of the Iran–Iraq war, the Iraqi Army was the...
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Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world (section Support for Arab movements pre-World War II)
manage competing interests in the region. One notable example was the Anglo-Iraqi War, when the Golden Square (a political clique of four generals led by...
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Ar-Rutbah (redirect from Ar Rutbah, Iraq)
famous Dutch plane Uiver crashed, with all onboard killed. During the Anglo-Iraqi War in 1941, Ar-Rutbah was the site of a clash between British forces,...
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the Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi Navy were destroyed in the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, respectively. The Iraqi Navy is designed for coastal...
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Somerset de Chair (category British Army personnel of World War II)
Kingdom's entry into World War II. He served as an intelligence officer with the 4th Cavalry Brigade during the Anglo-Iraqi War and the Syrian Campaign where...
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Syria–Lebanon campaign (category Middle East theatre of World War II)
Marked as Iraqi aircraft, Axis aircraft under Fliegerführer Irak landed in Syria en route to the Kingdom of Iraq during the Anglo-Iraqi War. Darlan, a...
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Habbaniya launch pre-emptive air strikes against Iraqi forces besieging them and the Anglo-Iraqi War begins. 3 May: British forces in Ethiopia begin the...
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original divisions of the Iraqi Army, being active in 1941 during the Anglo-Iraqi War. The division's most notable activity in the war came on 22 May when the...
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Habforce (category Military units and formations of the British Army in World War II)
during the Anglo-Iraqi War and still active during the Syria-Lebanon campaign during the fighting in the Middle East in the Second World War. Habforce...
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