• Al-ʽAhd, or the Covenant Society, (Arabic: جمعية العهد / ALA-LC: Jamʽīyat al-ʽAhd) was a political group organized in 1913, mainly by Iraqi officers serving...
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  • Al-ʽAhd (lit. "the contract" or "the covenant" in Arabic) may refer to: Al-ʽAhd (Iraq) or the Covenant Society, a political group 1913–1921 Al-ʽAhd (Morocco)...
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    him vice president under Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. During his tenure as vice president, Saddam nationalized the Iraq Petroleum Company, diversified the economy...
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    Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under...
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    Hassan al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: علي حسن المجيد التكريتي, romanized: ʿAlī Ḥasan al-Majid al-Tikrītī; c. 1941 – 25 January 2010), was an Iraqi military...
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    Field Marshal Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1 July 1914 – 4 October 1982) was an Iraqi politician who served as the president of Iraq, from 17 July 1968 to 15 July...
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    Proxy Forces in Iraq". Al-Hayat. "Profile: Syria's Bashar al-Assad". BBC News. 10 March 2005. Harris, William (Summer 2005). "Bashar al-Assad's Lebanon...
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    Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (Arabic: عزت إبراهيم الدوري, romanized: ʿIzzat Ibrāhīm ad-Dūrī; 1 July 1942 – 25 October 2020) was an Iraqi politician, military...
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    Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī), also referred to as the pro-Iraqi Ba'ath movement, is a Ba'athist political...
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    to the pro-Aflaqite Ba'ath Party in Iraq with the Treason Trials in 1971, in which he prosecuted Aflaq, Amin al-Hafiz and nearly 100 followers (most...
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    al-Zirkali, Khair al-Din (27 September 2022). Shibh al-Jazirah fi 'Ahd al-Malik Abd al-Aziz. p. 231. Hakim Al-Mutairi, Al-Madina Al-Munawwara wa Al-Hisar...
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    Faisal I (redirect from Faysal I of Iraq)
    Ali Al-Hashemi (Arabic: فيصل بن حسين بن علي الهاشمي, Fayṣal al-Awwal bin Ḥusayn bin ʻAlī al-Hāshimī; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was King of Iraq from...
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  • in Iraq by Abu Hanifa and his disciples Abu Yusuf and Al-Shaybani. Among those in the Levant, Al-Awza'i was leading in this discipline and later Al-Shafi'i...
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    units of the Royal Iraqi Army were dispatched to Jordan in support of King Hussein. A group of Iraqi Free Officers, led by Brigadier Abd al-Karim Qasim and...
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    into exile. Apart from Bashar, his brother Maher al-Assad also fled abroad, flying a helicopter to Iraq before proceeding to Russia, while two of their...
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    Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region (Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي في العراق Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-'Arabī al-Ishtirākī fī al-'Irāq), officially the Iraqi Regional Branch...
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    Ba'athist Syria (category Hafez al-Assad)
    sanctions against Iraq, helping Iraq to illegally import oil. Bashar al-Assad opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. He sheltered Iraqi Ba'athists...
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    Yasin al-Hashimi (born Yasin Hilmi Salman; Arabic: ياسين الهاشمي‎; 1884 – 21 January 1937) was an Iraqi military officer and politician who twice served...
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    The Iraqi Revolt of 1920, also known as the Iraqi War of Independence or Great Iraqi Revolution began in Baghdad in the summer of 1920 with mass demonstrations...
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  • Qusay Hussein (category Deaths by firearm in Iraq)
    Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Nasiri al-Tikriti (Arabic: قصي صدام حسين; 17 May 1966 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician, military leader, and the second...
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    1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (category 1979 murders in Iraq)
    after the resignation of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Hussein's accession to President of the Iraqi Republic, Regional Secretary of the party, and...
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    The Iraqi Popular Army, also known as the People's Army or People's Militia (Arabic: الشعبي الجيش, romanized: Al Jaysh ash Shaabi), was a paramilitary...
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    Tariq Aziz (category Iraqi people of the Iran–Iraq War)
    ʿAzīz, 28 April 1936 – 5 June 2015) was an Iraqi politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 and Minister of Foreign Affairs...
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  • Salah Al-Mukhtar (Arabic: صلاح المختار; born 1944 in Baghdad) is an Iraqi Ba'athist politician who is reportedly the current leader of the Iraqi Ba'ath...
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    Qasem Soleimani (category Assassinations in Iraq)
    Agency quoting the Iraqi Al-Ahd network, there are diverse narratives concerning the drones which killed Soleimani and Abu-Mahdi al-Muhandis). One mentions...
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    The Free Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي الحر, Al-Jayš Al-‘Irāqī Al-Ḥurr, FIA) was an Iraqi rebel group formed in the western Sunni-majority provinces...
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    al-Amin controlled Iraq and the west with his Arab vizier, al-Fadl ibn Rabi, while al-Mamun controlled Iran and the east with his Persian vizier, al-Fadl...
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  • al-Malikiya on 5–6 June 1948. from: Egypt Jordan Morocco North Yemen Sudan Tunisia from: Afghanistan Iraq Lebanon Pakistan Kuwait  Bahrain India Iraq...
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    Tammūz) was a bloodless coup in Iraq in 1968 led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif, and Abd ar-Rahman al-Dawud that ousted President Abdul...
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    Taha Yassin Ramadan al-Jazrawi (Arabic: طه ياسين رمضان الجزراوي; 20 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) was an Iraqi military officer and politician who served...
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