A League of Nations Commission of Inquiry, with Belgian, Hungarian and Swedish members, was sent to the region in 1924 ; it found that the people of Mosul did not want to be part of either Turkey or Iraq, but if they had to choose, they would pick Iraq.

On 19 January 2010, Hoon gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry about his time as Defence Secretary.

During the Iraq Inquiry, Hoon said that the first he knew of the 45 minute Iraq weapon claim was when he read it in the dossier on Iraq's weapons in September 2002.

On 2 February 2010, Short appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq.

Straw gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry on 21 January 2010, making him the second member of Tony Blair's cabinet to do so.

* Iraq Inquiry

The Hutton Inquiry was a 2003 judicial inquiry in the UK chaired by Lord Hutton, who was appointed by the Labour government to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of David Kelly, a biological warfare expert and former UN weapons inspector in Iraq.

Browne gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry on January 25, 2010.

Commenting on Sir Christopher Meyer's testimony to the Iraq Inquiry in 2009, he described the inquiry as " a procession of primadonnas and the usual suspects grandstanding for the TV ".

The Iraq Inquiry was announced in June 2009.

On December 8, 2009, Scarlett gave evidence to The Iraq Inquiry.

Days before the American commission was announced, the government of the United Kingdom, the U. S .' s primary ally during the Iraq War, announced a similar commission to investigate British intelligence, known as the Butler Inquiry.

From July 2009, Baroness Prashar served on the Iraq Inquiry.

* Baroness Prashar's profile on official Iraq Inquiry site

Turnbull gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry on January 13, 2010.

He gave evidence to The Iraq Inquiry on 3 December 2009.

In the course of her testimony to the Iraq Inquiry commission, Wilmshurst, even though she understood that " Goldsmith was put into an impossible position ", she expressed her disapproval of the way Goldsmith set about in formulating his eventual opinion, stating she thought that " the process that was followed in this case was lamentable ," adding that she believes " there should have been a greater transparency within British government about the " evolving legal advice.

Goldsmith gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry on January 27, 2010, in which he was asked to explain his position on the legality of the invasion of Iraq.

On November 27 and December 15, 2009, Greenstock gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry regarding his time as ambassador to the United Nations.

Gilligan's 29 May 2003 report on Today — that the British government had " sexed up " the intelligence dossier on Iraq, a report broadcast after Liddle had left the programme — began a chain of events that included the death in July that year of David Kelly, the weapons inspector who was Gilligan's source, and the subsequent Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances of Kelly's death.

The report assembles evidence that Blair misled the British Parliament and people over reasons for the 2003 war on Iraq mainly from the PM's own statements and evidence disclosed by the Hutton Inquiry and the Butler Report.

However, Eastern Aramaic dialects, as well as Akkadian and Mesopotamian Aramaic personal and family names, still survive to this day among Assyrians in the regions of northern Iraq, southeast Turkey, northwest Iran and northeast Syria that constituted old Assyria.

Although foreign investors viewed Iraq with increasing interest in 2010, most are still hampered by difficulties in acquiring land for projects and by other regulatory impediments.

Sudanese-Iraqi relations were and still are very close, Sudan supported Iraq during the Gulf War, and following the war, Baghdad established Khartoum as a major center for Iraqi intelligence.

It became a protectorate known as Iraq, and it gained official independence from Britain in 1932, although the British still dominated their politics until 1952.

Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by Koizumi and the conservative LDP, reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.

On 1 April 1923, Shaikh Ahmad al-Sabah wrote the British Political Agent in Kuwait, Major John More, " I still do not know what the border between Iraq and Kuwait is, I shall be glad if you will kindly give me this information.

It was agreed, however, that Iraq could still apply for League membership within 25 years and that the mandate would end upon its admittance.

With the popular dream of unity still a popular force that politicians often thought they had to give lip service to, Egypt, Syria and Iraq entered into an abortive agreement in 1963 to form a new " United Arab Republic ," which was to be entirely federal in structure, leaving each member state its identity and institutions.

Twenty years later, they are still being used widely in recent conflict areas such as Chechnya, Iraq, and Sri Lanka.

Sudanese-Iraqi relations were and still are very close, Sudan supported Iraq during the Gulf War, and following the war, Baghdad established Khartoum as a major center for Iraqi intelligence.

Some tribal sheiks in Iraq still keep blacks, called Abd, which means servant or slave in Arabic, as slaves.

* Saddam and his lawyers ' contesting the court's authority and maintaining that he was still the President of Iraq.

The territories to the south of Syria and Iraq on the Arabian Peninsula which still remained under Turkish control when the Armistice of Mudros was signed on 30 October 1918 were not explicitly identified in the text of the treaty.

However, the Gulf Arab States — Arafat's usual source for financial backing — still refused to provide him and the PLO with any major donations because of his sympathy for Iraq during the Gulf War, in 1991.

102 Howitzer belonging to Battery A, 1st Battalion, 206th Field Artillery, 39th Brigade Combat Team, in position at Camp Taji, Iraq 29 May 2004While the M102 is no longer in use by the Active United States Army, having been replaced by the M119, it is still in use by the National Guard.

This cooperation still exists today and is seen in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the finding and killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

Consequently, indeed there is still a small and fragile community of Assyrians in Iraq, however, millions of Assyrian Christians live today in exiled and prosperous communities in the west.

A separate Akkadian-infused Eastern Aramaic is still spoken by the existing Assyrians of Iraq, Iran, northeast Syria and southeast Turkey.

A fair number of Akkadian loan words survive in the Mesopotamian Neo Aramaic dialects spoken in and around modern Iraq by the indigenous Assyrian ( aka Chaldo-Assyrian ) Christians of the region, and the giving of Akkadian personal names, along with a number of Akkadian last names and tribal names, is still common amongst Assyrian people.

* Iran and Iraq restored diplomatic relations in 1990, but they are still trying to work out written agreements settling outstanding disputes from their eight-year war concerning border demarcation, prisoners of war, and freedom of navigation in and sovereignty over the Shatt al-Arab waterway.

During the 1990 – 91 Gulf War, Iraq still had large stockpiles available which were found as coalition forces advanced north.

Cellular service has been in place since 2004, and though service is still spotty in some locations, it is expected to improve. USA Today from 2005 about Iraq and its telecommunications Iraqna, an Orascom Telecom company, is the biggest GSM cellular service provider in Iraq.

In June 1978, Iraq began entering into friendlier relations with the Western world and buying French and Italian-made weapons, though the vast majority still came from the Soviet Union, its