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Occupation zones of Iraq after the invasion. On 11 July 2003, 1st Armoured Division handed control over south-east Iraq to 3rd Mechanised Division, Major General Wall was succeeded by Major General Graeme Lamb as commander of British ground forces in Iraq. Unlike the invasion period, by then there was a substantial presence from many nations ...
The United Kingdom changes the title of its British Dependent Territories to that of British Overseas Territories. The citizens of each British Overseas Territory gain full British citizenship. 2003: 4 February: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia changes its name to the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. [10] 20 March
The 2003 invasion of Iraq [b] was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, [24] including 26 days of major combat operations, in which a United States-led combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded the Republic of Iraq.
In 1955, the United Kingdom was part of the Baghdad Pact. HM King Faisal II of Iraq paid a state visit to the United Kingdom in July 1956. [8] The British had a plan to use 'modernisation' and economic growth to solve Iraq's endemic problems of social and political unrest.
The Kingdom of Iraq under British Administration, or Mandatory Iraq (Arabic: الانتداب البريطاني على العراق, romanized: al-Intidāb al-Brīṭānī ʿalā l-ʿIrāq), was created in 1921, following the 1920 Iraqi Revolution against the proposed British Mandate of Mesopotamia, and enacted via the 1922 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty and a 1924 undertaking by the United Kingdom to ...
The British and Commonwealth system of battle honours recognised participation in the Anglo-Iraq War by the award to 16 units of the battle honour Iraq 1941, for service in Iraq between 2–31 May 1941. The award was accompanied by honours for three actions during the war: Defence of Habbaniya awarded to one unit for operations against the ...
The story of Iraq from 1991 until 2003 is of a country suffering a profound macroeconomic shock. [ 15 ] The United States , citing a need to prevent the genocide of the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq and the Kurds to the north, declared "air exclusion zones" north of the 36th parallel and south of the 32nd parallel .
Dodge, Toby "Inventing Iraq" (2009) Fieldhouse, David K. Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914–1958 (2006) Fisk, Robert. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East, (2nd ed. 2006), Simons, Geoff. Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam (2nd ed. 1994) Sluglett, Peter. Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country, 1914–1932 ...