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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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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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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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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Islamist conflict, 2001–2004 (fought on Iraqi territory, but with no Iraqi involvement) References: Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company...
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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Assault on Rutbah Fort (1941) (category Iraq in World War II)
Assault on Rutbah Fort was fought during the Anglo-Iraqi War between British and Transjordanian forces and Iraqi forces loyal to Rashid Ali. On 1 May 1941...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Anglo-America, 1685–1815. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-1226-8. Braund, Kathryn E. Holland (2012). Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War...
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Iraq (also known as ISIS) Gulf War, an invasion of Iraq in 1991 by the United States-led coalition following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 Anglo-Iraqi...
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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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