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Iraqi Airways operated the first domestic commercial scheduled service since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime from Baghdad to Basra, with 100 passengers in a Boeing 727-200, on 4 June 2005.
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Because of the no-fly zone imposed on Iraq by the United States and the United Kingdom, Iraqi Airways was only able to continue domestic flights for limited periods.
In December 2006, an Iraqi Airways affiliated travel agency in the UK announced a direct Baghdad to London route scheduled to start service twice weekly in early 2007.
* In June 2009, Iraqi Airways revealed that they have been given the go ahead to resume direct Baghdad-Karachi flights.
* On 12 November 2009, Blue Wings began providing regular service to Frankfurt, Germany on behalf of Iraqi Airways.
* In April 2010, it was announced that Iraqi Airways would resume flights to London but instead to Gatwick Airport via Malmö, Sweden.
* In May 2010, Iraqi Airways was forced to suspend all operations to both the United Kingdom and Sweden due to ongoing legal issues with Kuwait.
Iraqi Airways Company, operating as Iraqi Airways ( Al-Khuṭūṭ al-Jawwiyyah al -` Irāqiyyah ; also known as Air Iraq ), is the national carrier of Iraq, headquartered on the grounds of Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad.
One of the oldest airlines in the Middle East, Iraqi Airways operates domestic and regional service.
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* Iraqi National Congress timeline at the Stakeholder website ( operated by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee )
The Viscounts entered service in 1955 and operated all of Iraqi Airways ' international services including a new route to London.
On 6 November 2005, Iraqi Airways operated a flight from Baghdad to Tehran, Iran, for the first time in twenty-five years.
Sixth Fleet has consisted of up to 40 ships, 175 aircraft and 21, 000 people, such as in early 2003, when two carrier battlegroups operated in the Mediterranean in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
However, with the opening shots of the Iraq War in March, 2003, the term " wolfpack " was brought back into use to describe the fleet of American and British nuclear submarines which operated together in the Red Sea, firing Tomahawk missiles at Iraqi targets.
Iraqi officials executed Saddam Hussein at an American operated facility in Kadhimiya known as " Camp Justice ".
Iraqi Regular Army operated 1, 300 BRDM-1 and BRDM-2 armoured scout cars and vehicles based on them.
Another aircraft that lost all hydraulics was a DHL operated Airbus A300B4 that was hit by a surface-to-air missile fired by the Iraqi resistance in the 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident.
* Iraqi National Turkmen Party ( INTP ), founded in 1988 and operated in the northern Iraqi no-fly zones
Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it was called the Baghdad Stock Exchange and was operated by the Iraqi Ministry of Finance.
The airline was established in 2004, with the first flight having been operated on behalf of Iraqi Airways, linking Baghdad with Basra.
On the northern front it operated with special operations forces and Kurdish allies in tying down Iraqi forces.
The 5 British corvettes and 1 Soviet patrol boat operated by the Saddam-era Iraqi Navy were destroyed in the 2nd and 1st Gulf Wars respectively.
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