* 1980 – The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.

Although they presented a serious threat to the Iraqi Ba ' ath Party regime, Saddam Hussein managed to suppress the rebellions with massive and indiscriminate force and maintained power.

The first Iraqi Republic Railways train to Basra since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime arrived on 26 April 2003.

During the regime of Saddam Hussein, the leader of the Ba ' ath Party had strong relations with Bachir, and Amine Gemayel ; relations grew even stronger when Iraqi officials verbally lashed out against Israel's actions in the 2006 War.

Saddam's regime was accused of killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens and committing war crimes in Iran, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.

Bush stated that " The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade ... Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror.

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.

* In 2003 the 12 year self-government in Iraqi Kurdistan ends, developed under the protection of the UN " No-fly zone " during the now-ousted Saddam Hussein regime.

During most of 2002 and into 2003, the United States government continued to call for " regime change " in Iraq and threatened to use military force to overthrow the Iraqi government unless Iraq rid itself of all weapons of mass destruction and convinced the UN that it had done so.

Eleven years ago, as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi regime was required to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, to cease all development of such weapons, and to stop all support for terrorist groups.

The Iraqi regime has violated all of those obligations.

As a result of the growing difficulties within INC, the United States began seeking out other opponents who could threaten the Iraqi regime, such as the Iraqi National Accord ( INA ), headed by Iyad Allawi.

The Free Syrian Army claimed the Bashar al-Assad regime recruited mercenaries from Iran, Hezbollah militia and the Iraqi Mahdi Army militia during the Syrian uprising.

" Blix went on to state that the Iraqi regime had allegedly misplaced " 1, 000 tonnes " of VX nerve agent — one of the most toxic ever developed.

It certainly did not help to have Saddam Hussein in the news, at the same time as the Beef Tribunal was discussing Reynolds ' attempts to sell beef to the Iraqi regime.

In sixteen days of fighting, V Corps advanced more than 540 miles straight line distance from Kuwait to Baghdad, decisively defeated the Iraqi Armed Forces, and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein.

As part of Combined Joint Task Force 7 mission, V Corps soldiers sought out and arrested or killed the major figures in the Iraqi regime, culminating in the arrest of Saddam Hussein himself.

United Nations Special Commission ( UNSCOM ) was an inspection regime created by the United Nations to ensure Iraq's compliance with policies concerning Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction after the Gulf War.

United Nations Special Commission ( UNSCOM ) was an inspection regime created with the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 in April 1991 to oversee Iraq's compliance with the destruction of Iraqi chemical, biological, and missile weapons facilities and to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency ’ s efforts to eliminate nuclear weapon facilities all in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

Acceptance of the intrusion of the UNSCOM ’ s inspectors on the part of the Iraqi regime was slow coming.

These reports, however, were found to be incomplete and deficient, and at the same time UN inspectors were subjected to harassment and threats on the part of the Iraqi regime.

Also in 1996, the Iraqi ruling regime agreed to the terms of United Security Council Resolution 986, an oil-for-supplies agreement in which Iraq was allowed to sell $ 2 billion worth of oil every six months as a ways to purchase supplies for its increasingly impoverished and malnourished population.

1284, which led the Iraqi regime to reject the resolution because they saw the resolution as a way for the UN to claim Iraq as a “ protectorate .”

Resolutions: " The right reason for this war .. was to oust Saddam's regime and partner with the Iraqi people to try to implement the Arab Human Development report's prescriptions in the heart of the Arab world.

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.

For 18 months Abadan was besieged, but never captured, by Iraqi forces.

The AMRAAM was used for the first time on 27 December 1992, when a USAF F-16D shot down an Iraqi MiG-25 that violated the southern no-fly-zone.

AMRAAM gained a second victory in January 1993 when an Iraqi MiG-23 was shot down by a USAF F-16C.

During the Gulf War, the HARM was involved in a friendly fire incident when the pilot of an F-4G Wild Weasel escorting a B-52 bomber mistook the latter's tail gun radar for an Iraqi AAA site.

( This was after the tail gunner of the B-52 had targeted the F-4G, mistaking it for an Iraqi MiG.

The delegation was denied access to the camp by Iraqi government, citing their sovereignty.

Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.

Most factions of the Taliban, Iraqi insurgency, Colombia's FARC, and the Communist Party of India ( Maoist ) are said to be engaged in some form of guerrilla warfare — as was, until recently, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ).

" However, in these UN statements it was never made clear that it was only Iraq that was using chemical weapons, so it has been said that " the international community remained silent as Iraq used weapons of mass destruction against Iranian as well as Iraqi Kurds " and it is believed that the " United States prevented the UN from condemning Iraq ".

They were ruthlessly crushed by the loyalist forces spearheaded by the Iraqi Republican Guard and the population was successfully terrorized.

Iraqi cooperation with UN weapons inspection teams was questioned on several occasions during the 1990s.

As the country struggled to rebuild after three wars and a decade of sanctions, it was plagued by violence between a growing Iraqi insurgency and occupation forces.

The aims of these attacks were not completely clear, but it was argued in 2006 / 7 that these attacks were aimed at fomenting civil conflict within Iraq to destroy the legitimacy of the newly created collaborationist Iraqi government ( which many of its nationalist critics saw as illegitimate and a product of the U. S. government ) and create an unsustainable position for the U. S. forces within Iraq.

It was formed to resist efforts by the U. S. and Iraqi authorities to win over Sunni supporters of the insurgency.

According to the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the US, as an occupying power, was responsible for the human rights and security of Iraqi civilians.

The boundary was accepted by Iraq when it became independent in 1932, but in the 1960s and again in the mid-1970s, the Iraqi government advanced a claim to parts of Kuwait.

A permanent 275-member Council of Representatives was elected in the December 2005 Iraqi legislative elections, initiating the formation of the Government of Iraq, 2006-2010.

The newly-elected transitional Assembly was given a mandate to write the new and permanent Constitution of Iraq and exercised legislative functions until the new Constitution came into effect, and resulted in the formation of the Iraqi Transitional Government.

Following the ratification of the Constitution of Iraq on 15 October 2005, a general election was held on 15 December to elect the permanent 275-member Iraqi Council of Representatives.

Although government policies supporting large military and internal security forces and allocating resources to key supporters of the Ba ' ath Party government hurt the economy, implementation of the United Nations ' corruption-plagued oil-for-food program in December 1996 was to have improved conditions for the average Iraqi citizen.

Opposition from senior Iraqi officials, together with the poor security situation, meant that Bremer's privatization plan was not implemented during his tenure, though his orders remain in place.