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Opération Chammal is a French military operation in Iraq and Syria launched to help curtail the expansion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and to support the Iraqi Army. Its name comes from the Shamal ( Chammal in French), a northwesterly wind that blows over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states.
Following the independence of Iraq, France maintained formal relations with the Iraqi Kingdom, even the governments coming in result of coup.At the turn of the 1940s, the occupation of France and establishment of Vichy France during World War II forced the French government into exile, as well as another Iraqi coup lead to a pro-German regime [5] that put the two governments in conflict.
The U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (official name: Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq) was a status of forces agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States, signed by President George W. Bush in 2008.
This paragraph, and similar provisions in Resolution 678, were used by the United States and United Kingdom as legal justification for their 1996 bombing of Iraq, 1998 bombing of Iraq, and 2003 invasion of Iraq, with officials claiming the resolutions provided authority to "use all necessary means" to compel Iraq to comply with its UN ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -The United States and Iraq have reached an understanding on plans for the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces from Iraq, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
Prussian treaty of friendship with France. Peace of Pressburg (1805) Between France and Austria, ending Austria's participation in the War of the Fourth Coalition. 1806 Treaty of Poznań: Ends the war between France and Saxony after the latter's defeat during the War of the Fourth Coalition. 1807 Treaty of Finckenstein: Between France and Persia.
This "impassioned" speech "against war on Iraq, or immediate war on Iraq", won "an unprecedented applause", reported the BBC's Sir David Frost . The complete text is available at the Embassy of France in the United States. Britain and the US sharply criticized France for this position in March 2003. [citation needed]
George Packer, in his 2005 non-fiction analysis of the Iraq war The Assassins' Gate, explicates the Clean Break report "through the lens of Wurmser's subsequent AEI-published volume, which argued (in 1999) that America's taking out Saddam would solve Israel's strategic problems and leave the Palestinians essentially helpless."