Saddam Hussein,known mononymously as Saddam,was an Iraqi politician and dictator who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party,and later,the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization,the Iraqi Ba'ath Party—which espoused Ba'athism,a mix of Arab nationalism,Iraqi nationalism and Arab socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to power in Iraq.
Ryan Clark Crocker is an American retired diplomat who served as a career ambassador within the United States Foreign Service and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has served as United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (2011–2012),Iraq (2007–2009),Pakistan (2004–2007),Syria (1998–2001),Kuwait,and Lebanon (1990–1993). In January 2010,he became Dean of Texas A&M University's George Bush School of Government and Public Service.
The Battle of Baghdad,also known as the Fall of Baghdad,was a military engagement that took place in Baghdad in early April 2003,as part of the invasion of Iraq.
The occupation of Iraq was characterized by a large United States military deployment on Iraqi territory,beginning with the U.S.-led invasion of the country in March 2003 which overthrew the Ba'ath Party government of Saddam Hussein and ending with the departure of US troops from the country in 2011. Troops for the invasion came primarily from the United States,the United Kingdom and Australia,but 29 other nations also provided some troops,and there were varying levels of assistance from Japan and other countries.
April Catherine Glaspie is an American former diplomat and senior member of the Foreign Service,best known for her role in the events leading up to the Gulf War.
The Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) was the provisional government of Iraq from 13 July 2003 to 1 June 2004. It was established by and served under the United States-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). The IGC consisted of various Iraqi political and tribal leaders who were appointed by the CPA to provide advice and leadership of the country until the June 2004 transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqi Interim Government.
Ayad Allawi is an Iraqi politician. He served as the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Previously he was interim prime minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and the president of the Governing Council of Iraq in 2003.
Aiham Alsammarae is a nationalistic,Sunni,Iraqi politician who served as Minister of Electricity from August 2003 until May 2005. He has been an active member of the Iraqi National List and has fought hard for political reconciliation among Iraq's political parties as well as against the policy of de-Ba'athification,since his resignation as Minister of Electricity. Previously,he was a prominent member of the Iraqi Opposition and lived in exile in the U.S. for over 30 years.
Events in the year 2005 in Iraq.
Salah Omar Al-Ali was a member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council,Iraqi Minister of Culture and Information from 1968 to 1970,and subsequently ambassador to Sweden,Spain and the United Nations from 1973 to 1981. He is currently a leading member of the Iraqi opposition.
The following lists events that happened during 2006 in Iraq.
The Embassy of the United States of America in Baghdad is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the Republic of Iraq. Ambassador Alina Romanowski is currently the Chief of Mission.
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 that began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. US troops were officially withdrawn in 2011. The United States became re-involved in 2014 at the head of a new coalition,and the insurgency and many dimensions of the armed conflict are ongoing. The invasion occurred as part of the George W. Bush administration's war on terror following the September 11 attacks,despite no connection between Iraq and the attacks.
Feisal Amin al-Istrabadi is an Iraqi lawyer and former diplomat who represented Iraq at the United Nations as ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative from 2004 to 2007. In 2004,he was one of the main drafters of Iraq's Transitional Administrative Law (TAL).
Iraq–Saudi relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between the Republic of Iraq and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
House of Saddam is a 2008 British docudrama television miniseries that charted the rise and fall of Saddam Hussein. A co-production between BBC Television and HBO Films,the series was first broadcast on BBC Two in four parts between 30 July and 20 August 2008.
Samir al Shihabi,served as President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1991 to 1992.
On April 9,2003,during the US invasion of Iraq,a large statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was destroyed by Iraqi civilians and United States Marines. The event received global media coverage,wherein it came to symbolize the end of Hussein's rule in Iraq.
Lukman Faily is the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States. He has served as the Iraqi Ambassador to Japan.
Zakia Ismael Hakki was a Feyli Kurdish lawyer who was appointed Iraq's first female judge in 1959,becoming the first woman of an Arabian nation to be appointed as a judge. She fled Iraq in 1996 after her husband was killed and was granted asylum in the United States. She returned to Iraq in 2003 and was elected to the National Assembly of Iraq and was an advisor in the drafting of the constitution.
