Iraq
36 events
- 24 February 1955The Baghdad PactAgainst the Soviet Union (Iran, America, Britain, Iraq, Pakistan, Arab states…).
- 14 July 1958Coup in IraqOn 14 July 1958 Abdel Karim Qasim overthrew the Hashemite monarchy in Baghdad; King Faisal II and Nuri al-Said were…
- 22 September 1980Iraq invades IranOn 22 September 1980 Iraq invaded Iran, opening a war that lasted eight years; it was reflected in Beirut in a struggle…
- 4 September 1981Assassination of the French ambassadorThe assassination of the French ambassador to Lebanon, and the shelling of the French embassy over its support for…
- 15 December 1981Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut: the first suicide car bombingOn 15 December 1981 a suicide bomber in a car destroyed the Iraqi embassy building in Beirut, killing 61 people…
- April 1982Amal fights a pro-Saddam groupIn April 1982 the Amal Movement fought fierce battles in West Beirut, the southern suburbs and the South against…
- 2 August 1990Iraq invades Kuwait, Syria joins the coalitionOn 2 August 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait, and Syria joined the American coalition against Saddam; its implicit price was…
- 16 December 1998"Desert Fox": US–British strikes on Iraq
- 13 March 2003Nasrallah against the Iraq invasion
- 20 March 2003The US invasion of IraqOn 20 March 2003 the US–British invasion of Iraq began on the pretext of weapons of mass destruction, and Baghdad fell…
- 18 July 2003Mahdi Army founded
- 29 August 2003Assassination of Sayyed Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim
- 13 December 2003Capture of Saddam Hussein
- 4 April 2004First Mahdi Army uprising in Najaf and Kufa
- 28 April 2004The Abu Ghraib scandal
- 21 May 2004The shrouds march in Beirut for Najaf and KarbalaOn 21 May 2004 Hezbollah held a mass march in the southern suburbs, the marchers wearing shrouds in solidarity with the…
- 28 June 2004Transfer of power in IraqOn 28 June 2004 the American civil administrator Paul Bremer handed sovereignty to Iyad Allawi's interim government two…
- 5 August 2004Battle of Najaf: Mahdi Army against US forces
- 17 October 2004Zarqawi pledges to bin Laden: al-Qaeda in IraqOn 17 October 2004 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi announced his pledge of allegiance to Osama bin Laden, and "Tawhid and Jihad"…
- 31 August 2005The Baghdad al-Aimmah bridge stampede
- 22 February 2006Bombing of the al-Askari shrineOn 22 February 2006 al-Qaeda in Iraq blew up the dome of the shrine of the two Askari Imams in Samarra, setting off a…
- 23 February 2006The "shrouds" demonstrations in DahiyehOn 23 February 2006, the day after the bombing of the shrine of the two Askari Imams in Samarra, Hezbollah held a mass…
- 7 June 2006Killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
- July 2006Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq founded
- 15 October 2006Islamic State of Iraq declaredOn 15 October 2006 the Mujahideen Shura Council proclaimed the "Islamic State of Iraq" under Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the…
- 30 December 2006Execution of Saddam Hussein
- 1 April 2007Kata'ib Hezbollah (Iraq) founded
- 10 June 2014Mosul falls to ISISOn 10 June 2014 Mosul fell to ISIS within days after the collapse of the Iraqi army. The war reached the Lebanese…
- 13 June 2014Sistani's fatwa; Popular Mobilisation Forces formedOn 13 June 2014, after the fall of Mosul to ISIS, the religious authority Ali al-Sistani issued the fatwa of…
- 29 June 2014Declaration of the "caliphate"On 29 June 2014 ISIS proclaimed the "caliphate" and pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as caliph, dropping…
- 27 December 2019Rocket attack on K-1 base kills a US contractorOn 27 December 2019 rockets fell on the K-1 base in Kirkuk, killing an American contractor; Washington accused the…
- 29 December 2019US strikes on Kata'ib HezbollahOn 29 December 2019 the United States bombed five Kata'ib Hezbollah positions in al-Qaim and al-Bukamal (25 dead) in…
- 31 December 2019Storming of the US embassy in BaghdadOn 31 December 2019 supporters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces stormed the surroundings of the American embassy in…
- 3 January 2020Assassination of Hajj Qassem SoleimaniAt dawn on 3 January 2020 an American drone strike killed the commander of the Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, and the…
- 5 January 2020Nasrallah: the response is to expel America from the regionOn 5 January 2020, two days after the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah declared that "the…
- 8 January 2020Iranian missile strike on Ain al-AsadOn 8 January 2020 the Iranian Revolutionary Guard fired dozens of ballistic missiles at the Ain al-Asad base in Anbar…