When the valley was flooded by the Haditha Dam at Haditha in 1984-85, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities cut it into sections, and removed it to the new ' Anah where it was re-erected at the end of the 1980s.

After the end of the Gulf War and after the Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, the sanctions were linked to removal of weapons of mass destruction by Resolution 687.

By the end of 2006 violence continued as the new Iraqi Government struggled to extend complete security within Iraq.

On 26 May 2006, Italian foreign minister Massimo D ' Alema announced that the Italian forces would be reduced to 1, 600 by June ; Italian participation in the military operations in Iraq was concluded by the end of 2006, with full withdrawal of Italian military personnel except for a small group of about 30 soldiers engaged in providing security for the Italian embassy in Baghdad, and about 87 soldiers stationing in bases in the Persian Gulf ( but not in Iraqi territory ).

Nearly 700 oil wells were set ablaze by the retreating Iraqi army and the fires were not fully extinguished until November 6, 1991, eight months after the end of the war.

A United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, and the Iraq war led to the end of Saddam Hussein's rule as Iraqi President and the Ba ' ath Party regime in Iraq.

The Iraqi government had, since the end of World War I and the beginning of the British Mandate in the Middle East, constantly resisted British efforts to control or restrict them.

The issue of Iraq's disarmament reached a crisis in 2002-2003, when U. S. President George W. Bush demanded a complete end to what he alleged was Iraqi production of weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq comply with UN Resolutions requiring UN weapons inspectors unfettered access to areas those inspectors thought might have weapons production facilities.

He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon " supergun " for the Iraqi government.

* At the end of 2009, Iraqi Airways relaunched their new website.

Three Kings is a 1999 satirical war dramedy written and directed by David O. Russell from a story by John Ridley about a gold heist that takes place during the 1991 Iraqi uprising against Saddam following the end of the first Persian Gulf War.

The film opens with an Iraqi Regular Army soldier trying to surrender as U. S. troops mop up loose ends following the end of the Gulf War.

Up to the end of the 14th century AD, Kirkuk often administratively and economically belonged to Daquq and they were both at the same time in contact with Arbil, the modern capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, and Sharazor and their extensions.

The battle, which was mostly centered around Wādī ' as-Salām Cemetery and the southwestern portion of the city, lasted three weeks and ended when senior Iraqi cleric Grand Ayatollah Alī Al-Sīstānī negotiated an end to the fighting.

By the end of April, the Iraqi armed forces were situated in strong positions on the escarpment above the base and a siege began.

* Iraq disarmament crisis: Issue of Iraq's disarmament reached a crisis in 2002 – 2003, after demands of the complete end to Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq comply with UN Resolutions requiring UN inspectors unfettered access to areas those inspectors thought might have weapons production facilities.

* The U. S .- Iraq Status of Forces Agreement, which stipulates that U. S. troops will be out of Iraq by the end of 2011, is approved and ratified by the Iraqi Parliament.

Following the end of the British mandate in 1933 and a massacre of civilians at Simele by the Iraqi Army, the Patriarch was forced to take refuge in Cyprus.

He oversaw Britain's diplomatic responses to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, as well as the first Gulf War to drive Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.

Wanniski not only recognized the prospective importance of the Iraqi WMD question before other journalists, he argued correctly that Iraq didn't have any WMD and stated that the U. S. would never allow UNSCOM to end the inspections regime no matter what Iraq did.

On 14 July 1958, a coup d ' état led by Colonel Abdul Karim Qassim toppled the government and brought an end to the Iraqi monarchy.

The Kuwaiti people are happy for the Iraqi people ; it is the end of the rule of tyranny.

" The domestic brutality of Hussein and the benefits of liberty and freedom for the Iraqi people were briefly noted near the end of the speech.

As the deadline comes to an end the crew sees that the Iraqi Army is installing anti-aircraft guns in Baghdad.

Thus, by the end of 1992, Azerbaijan received arms and military hardware sufficient for approximately four motor rifle divisions with prescribed army units.

She dreaded the fight at the end, but faced the army of Voldemort valiantly.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

The army report that day contains only one phrase: “ All quiet on the Western Front .” As Paul dies, his face is calm, “ as though almost glad the end had come .”

In 1989, when the Cold War was coming to its end, the army numbered at least 152, 000 regular troops.

Town after town subsequently fell, including Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp ; by the end of the campaign Villeroi's army had been driven from most of the Spanish Netherlands.

" he was suddenly surrounded by the barbarians, and slain, together with great part of his army ; nor could he be honoured with the rites of sepulture, but, stripped and naked, he lay to be devoured by wild beasts and birds, a fit end for the enemy of God.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

Some months later, in the end of October, Patassé sacked his army chief-of-staff, François Bozizé, and tried to arrest him.

The immense size of the Union army ( the largest on the planet toward the end of the Civil War ), however, was viewed with increasing concern by Maritimers throughout the early 1860s.

* 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan army brings an end to both conflicts.

* 1824 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.

On 9 June 68, amidst growing opposition of the Senate and the army, Nero committed suicide, and with him the Julio-Claudian dynasty came to an end.

At the end of basic training they had to buy a horse at a reduced price from the army and to take it home together with equipment, uniform and weapon.

At the end, Davros is left with an army of Daleks who have had their minds wiped.

Accordingly, by midafternoon, the rear of the column – believing the day's march to be nearly at an end – was dawdling ; this resulted in the army becoming divided, with some having already crossed the summit and others still approaching it.

At the end of 1793, the army began to prevail and revolts were defeated with ease.

Although he lost many of his battles, he never surrendered his army during the war, and he continued to fight the British relentlessly until the war's end.

By the end of January 1959 the new army had reached a strength of around 2, 000 officers and soldiers.

Authorised by Hitler and under the direction of Himmler and Heydrich, the Einsatzgruppen units — now repurposed as death squads — followed the Heer ( army ) into Poland, and by the end of 1939 they had murdered some 65, 000 intellectuals and other civilians.

Escaping to the north, Montrose attempted to continue the struggle with fresh troops ; but in July 1646 his army was disbanded after the King surrendered to the Scots army at Newark, and the civil war came to an end.

Tartan had already been adopted for highland regiments in the British army, which poor highlanders joined in large numbers until the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, but by the 19th century it had largely been abandoned by the ordinary people.

Later on, in 229 BC, Queen Teuta of the Ardiaei clashed with the Romans and initiated the Illyrian Wars, which resulted in defeat and in the end of Illyrian independence by 168 BC, when King Gentius was defeated by a Roman army.