With the help of increasing oil revenues, Saddam diversified the largely oil-based Iraqi economy.

With the onset of the Global War on Terror and Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom, DISA has been at the heart of providing the telecommunications and information systems that enable 21st century joint warfighting.

With the start of the Iran – Iraq War ( 1980 – 1988 ) following an Iraqi invasion, a second wave of inhabitants fled the city, especially during Iraqi air offensive on the capital.

With the rift between the United States and the Iraqi National Congress, the INA's role was further enhanced and Allawi was declared Prime Minister of Iraq on 28 May 2004.

With the hand-over of power to the Iraqi government, if one does not consider the coalition forces to be continuing parties to the conflict in Iraq, but that their soldiers are sent by a State which is not a Party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces ( APGC77 Art 47. f ), then, unless U. S. citizens working as armed guards are lawfully certified residents of Iraq, i. e., a resident of territory controlled by a Party to the conflict ( APGC77 Art 47. d ), and they are involved with a fire-fight in the continuing conflict, they are mercenary soldiers.

With this massive influx of manpower the Republican Guard expanded to over 25 brigades which were led by loyal officers drawn from the Iraqi military.

With the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 the Iraqi Government complied with a British request to break off diplomatic relations with Germany, interned all German nationals, and introduced emergency measures putting Iraq on a virtual war-footing.

With Iranian aid, SCIRI became an armed resistance group, periodically making cross-border attacks on Iraqi facilities, maintaining covert connections with resistance elements within the country, and generally being a perennial thorn in Hussein's side.

With the Iraqi revolution taking place in the same year, Western powers feared the fallouts of a powerful Arab nationalism in the region.

With British forces having dominant air superiority, the Iraqis were forced back to Falluja and the air battle was taken to the remaining Iraqi Air Force bases at Mosul and Rashid ; Habbaniya had essentially lifted the siege upon its resources.

" With peace and stability in Iraq, we hope that an Iraqi government representing the free and independent Iraqi people could be set up to start the reconstruction process of that nation for the benefit of its people ," he said.

" With regard to delivery systems, the ISG team has discovered sufficient evidence to date to conclude that the Iraqi regime was committed to delivery system improvements that would have, if OIF had not occurred, dramatically breached UN restrictions placed on Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War ," Kay testified.

" With regard to Iraq, the commission was meant to " specifically examine the Intelligence Community's intelligence prior to the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom and compare it with the findings of the Iraq Survey Group and other relevant agencies or organizations concerning the capabilities, intentions, and activities of Iraq relating to the design, development, manufacture, acquisition, possession, proliferation, transfer, testing, potential or threatened use, or use of Weapons of Mass Destruction and related means of delivery.

With Iraqi independence, the new Assyrian spiritual-temporal leader, Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII, demanded the Assyrians be given autonomy within Iraq as had been promised by the British and Russians during World War I, seeking support from Britain.

With the full scale eruption of the civil war in February 2006, many militant attacks had directed the Iraqi police and military forces of the Iraqi government.

With Saddam's son Qusay Hussein, he headed the Iraqi Special Security Organization.

With the capture of Saddam Hussein on December 13, 2003, an Iraqi Special Tribunal was announced, with Salem placed in charge by an order signed by L. Paul Bremer III, the head of the occupation authority, As such, Salem was responsible for the setting up and the administration of the tribunal, including the nomination of judges and prosecutors ; he also arranged for the judges to visit the Slobodan Milošević ' tribunal at the Hague.

With the violent threat from Sadr's forces eliminated throughout most of Iraq, coalition forces and the Iraqi government began turning their attention towards bringing under control the numerous Sunni guerrilla safe-havens that remained from the spring uprising.

With the signing of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty and the settling of the Mosul question, Iraqi politics took on a new dynamic.

With a total of some 8. 4 million votes cast, a 58 % turnout, the Iraqi Electoral Commission considers the election to have taken place without major disruption.

With the 3rd ACR's redeployment from Iraq, the Up-Gun Avenger completed its role in Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Avengers have been scheduled to be converted back to STC systems.

With a Galician army he joined Manuel in the invasion of Hungary and assisted at the siege of Semlin.

With the Lombard invasion of Italy it was annexed to the Duchy of Benevento, until it was finally destroyed by the Byzantines of Constans II in 663, reducing to a small hamlet known as Quintodecimo ( referring to its distance of 15 miles from Benevento ).

With his plans now ruined, Duke hits the " eject " button, and vows to do whatever it takes to stop the alien invasion.

With British forces occupying much of the country, Sher Ali's son and successor, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, signed the Treaty of Gandamak in May 1879 to prevent a British invasion of the rest of the country.

With the support of the Vahnatai the Exiles turn the tables on the Empire and successfully repulse their invasion.

With the colony facing a full-scale invasion by Britain, the rebel slaves emerged as a powerful military force, under the leadership of Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Henri Christophe.

With Hitler's approval, Himmler re-established the Einsatzgruppen in the lead-up to the planned invasion of the Soviet Union.

With the collapse of the Mussolini government in line with the Allied invasion of Italy, Germany occupied Albania in September 1943, dropping paratroopers into Tirana before the Albanian guerrillas could take the capital.

With the invasion of Southern Italy, the Allies restored the authority of the mafia families lost during the Fascist period and used their influence to maintain public order.

With the arrival of Cambro-Norman knights in 1169, the Norman invasion of Ireland commenced.

With the growing possibility of an Allied invasion in the Balkans, the Axis began to divert more resources to the destruction of the Partisans main force and its high command.

With so much destruction, it was difficult for the residents of this area to recover from each successive invasion before encountering the next wave to wash over them.

*: With the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978, Communist Vietnam had a combined force of about 300, 000 in Laos and Cambodia.

With France neutralized, Germany began an air superiority campaign over Britain ( the Battle of Britain ) to prepare for an invasion.

With the surrender of France to Germany on June 25, 1940, and the belief that Britain was under imminent threat of a Nazi invasion, the convention opened in an atmosphere of great excitement and national stress ; this is believed to have boosted Willkie's chances even further.

With no sign of Villeneuve's fleet by 26 August, the three French army corps ' invasion force near Boulogne broke camp and marched to Germany, where it was later engaged.

** Battle of Rovine: With the help of the Hungarians, Wallachia resists an invasion by the Ottomans and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.

With the Allied victory over Germany becoming certain in 1944, the only option to save Estonia's independence was to stave off a new Soviet invasion of Estonia until Germany's capitulation.

With the invasion of the Baltics, it was the intention of the Nazi government to use the Baltic countries as their main area of mass genocide.

With many of the Scots ( including Lord Argyll and other leading Covenanters ) refusing to participate, and with few English royalists joining the force as it moved south into England, the invasion ended in defeat at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, after which Charles eluded capture by hiding in the Royal Oak at Boscobel House.

With this, Nasser's political position was enormously enhanced by the widely perceived failure of the invasion and Anglo-French attempt to topple him.

With Napoleon apparently gone, and the British invasion of New York defeated, British and American diplomats ( Clay and John Quincy Adams among the American delegation ) signed the Treaty of Ghent on Christmas Eve, 1814.

With the 1990 invasion of Kuwait and 1991 Gulf War, Iraq's nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs became a particular concern of the first Bush Administration.

With Louis unable to defend his realm, France sent 80, 000 militiamen, commanded by future King of Sweden Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte and successfully repelled the invasion.