While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

While its proven oil reserves of ranks Iraq second in the world behind Saudi Arabia, the United States Department of Energy estimates that up to 90 percent of the country remains unexplored.

* September 17 – Iraq disarmament crisis: While waiting for access to a site, UNSCOM inspectors witness and videotape Iraqi guards moving files, burning documents, and dumping waste cans into a nearby river.

* While supportive of the American government in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9 / 11, he opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq ( see Rogues and his contribution to Philosophy in a Time of Terror with Giovanna Borradori and Jürgen Habermas ).

While leader of opposition, he parted domestic and international interests and served as special mediator of the United Nations in the Iran – Iraq War, but returned to power as Prime Minister after stunning electoral victories in 1982 and 1985.

While the United States governed Iraq, no U. S. citizen working as an armed guard could be classified as a mercenary, because he was a national of a Party to the conflict ( APGC77 Art 47. d ).

While Syria and Iraq returned their ambassadors to Baghdad and Damascus, respectively, in the autumn of 2010, Syrian and Iraqi security cooperation has been largely inactive since Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in August 2009 accused Baathists harbored by Syria of fomenting terrorism in Iraq.

While deployed to the Gulf region in December 1998, the F-16s from the 522nd Fighter Squadron provided close air support alert, defensive counter air alert and interdiction in Iraq.

While we abhor and condemn the continuing loss of innocent life in Iraq, we have no choice now but to support the resistance, for if the resistance fails, the " Bush gang " will attack another country.

While the United Nations debated its response to the invasion of Kuwait, several international statesmen and peace campaigners visited Iraq to try to secure the release of the human shields, many returning with around 10 or 12 each time.

While Colin Powell's statement to the UN may have been accepted as " proof " by many in the US, this was not the case in Europe, where there was widespread scepticism of any links between Iraq and al-Qaeda.

While the vast majority of Samarra's native citizens are Sunnis and the Sunnis do not share the same religious practices that the Ja ' farī Madhhab Shi ' a of Iraq do, they consider these to be the grave sites of their forefathers and the pillars of Islam (' Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari ).

While the bombing was ongoing, the Vanguards of Conquest issued a communique to Islamist groups calling for attacks against the United States " for its arrogance " in bombing Iraq.

While the staff instituted a storage plan to prevent theft and damage ( also used during the Iran – Iraq War and the first Gulf War ), many larger statues, steles, and friezes had been left in the public galleries, protected with foam and surrounded by sandbags.

While the Iraq committee is an independent entity, committee officers said they expect to work closely with the administration.

While working for Lott in 1998, Scheunemann drafted the " Iraq Liberation Act " that authorized $ 98 million for the Iraqi National Congress.

While German officials were deported, Iraq would not declare war.

While Abdul-Illah supported Britain in the war, he was unable to control Gaylani, who used the war to further his own nationalist goals by refusing to allow troops to cross through Iraq to the front.

While some modern migration is a byproduct of wars ( for example, emigration from Iraq and Bosnia to the US and UK ), political conflicts ( for example, some emigration from Zimbabwe to the UK ), and natural disasters ( for example, emigration from Montserrat to the UK following the eruption of the island's volcano ), contemporary migration is predominantly economically motivated.

While Heraclius prepared for a major offensive in the Levant, Yazdegerd was to mount a simultaneous counterattack in Iraq, in what was meant to be a well-coordinated effort.

" While the MEK's leadership has resided in Paris France, the group's core members were for many years confined to Camp Ashraf in Iraq, and " were disarmed in the wake of the US-led invasion and are said to have adhered to a ceasefire.

While it opposed the Iraq war, the group did not actively call for the immediate withdrawal of US and UK forces, a position opposed by a large minority within the organisation.

While the Byzantine troops were assembling for the expedition, Alexios was approached by the Doukas faction at court, who convinced him to join a conspiracy against Nikephoros III.

While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British / Indian troops.

While these included elite Bersaglieri, Alpini and Cacciatori units, a large proportion of the troops were inexperienced conscripts recently drafted from metropolitan regiments in Italy into newly formed " di formazione " battalions for service in Africa.

While most modern " cavalry " units have some historic connection with formerly mounted troops this is not always the case.

While his condottieri took over the siege of Piombino ( which ended in 1502 ), Cesare commanded the French troops in the sieges of Naples and Capua, defended by Prospero and Fabrizio Colonna.

While he was convalescing in Castel Sant ' Angelo, his troops controlled the conclave.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

While the Romans did not wish to come to the aid of soldiers who had unjustly stolen a city from its rightful possessors, and although they were still recovering from the insurrection of Campanian troops at Rhegium in 271, many were also unwilling to see Carthaginian power in Sicily expand even further.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

While outside aid or even troops can be helpful, lack of clear limits, in terms of either a realistic plan for victory or exit strategy, may find the foreign helper " taking over " the local war, and being sucked into a lengthy commitment, thus providing the guerrillas with valuable propaganda opportunities as the toll of dead foreigners mounts.

While the Taliban began regrouping inside Pakistan, more coalition troops entered the escalating US-led war.

While the victory was minor, it encouraged the Gauls and Ligurians to join the Carthaginian cause, whose troops bolstered his army back to around 40, 000 men.

While he had hoped that Cardassia's joining the Dominion would strengthen their power, he felt that they were no longer in control of even their own planet, having to report to the Dominion representative Weyoun and the Founders, and Cardassian troops were being sacrificed seemingly meaninglessly without his permission.

While landing at Haafuun and Alula, the sultanate's troops opened fire on them.

While originally a weapon, this came to be seen more as a badge of office, or leading staff by which troops were directed.

While missiles fired out of guns would prove a disappointment, the wire-guided BGM-71 TOW would give infantry fighting vehicles like the M2 Bradley the firepower to destroy armored targets along with the ability to carry troops.

* September 1 – September 2 – While Wampanoags and Nipmucks attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, Captain Samuel Moseley commands Massachusetts troops in an attack on the Pennacook tribe.

While most of the Tang army was made of fubing Chinese conscripts, the majority of the troops led by Turkic generals were of non-Chinese origin, campaigning largely in the western frontier where the presence of fubing troops was low.

While Caesar is in Italy, he decides to enlist more troops because of political disturbances in Rome.

While he was teaching music to troops eager to escape the drudgery of army life, The Planets was being performed to audiences back home.

While the main forces struggled in battle, John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, and his Lancastrian troops routed the Yorkists under Lord William Hastings, chasing them up to Barnet.

While the revolutionary government frantically raised fresh troops and reorganised its armies, a mostly Prussian allied army under Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick assembled at Coblenz on the Rhine.

While Bulgaria had declared a ' symbolic ' war on the distant United Kingdom and the United States, at that meeting Boris once again refused to get involved in the war against the Soviet Union, giving two major reasons for his unwillingness to send troops to Russia — first, that many ordinary Bulgarians had strong Russophile sentiments ; and second, that the political and military position of Turkey remained unclear.

While the ethnic based army was generally successful on the battlefields, they began to have negative effects on the Fatimid's internal politics, traditionally the Berber element of the army had the strongest sway over political affairs, but as the Turkish element grew more powerful they began to challenge this, and eventually by 1020 serious riots began to break out among the Black African troops who were fighting back against a Berber / Turks Alliance.