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Manning Live
January 14, 2018
2007 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq. 2009 – Captain Sully (Chesley Sullenberger) emergency landed a US Airways Flight 1549 in theÃÂ ...
Insidethegames.biz
January 8, 2018
Cover your ears if you're around, De Coubertin, but the Modern Games, particularly since the 1936 Berlin Games, have contained a preponderance of ... Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon boycotted in protest at Israel's invasion of the Sinai Peninsula, while Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands boycotted over theÃÂ ...
Breaking Defense
January 2, 2018
Following the collapse of Turkey's Middle East policies and the July 2016 failed coup, Erdoğan appeared to tone down his Islamist ideology and embrace a more nationalist persona. He also normalized relations with both Israel and Russia. And while the Turkish Jewish community has not been targeted forÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
December 25, 2017
1936 - Mutinous warlords in China release Chiang Kai-shek after kidnapping him and holding him for 12 days. 1941 - Hong Kong surrenders to ... 1986 - Iraqi Airways jetliner with 107 people aboard explodes as it attempts a forced landing on a remote desert airstrip in Saudi Arabia. Sixty-two people die.
Middle East Eye
November 23, 2017
In 1936, he led Palestinian soldiers against British troops. And in 1948 he famously led the Arab Liberation Army in the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. His life was paradoxical and complex as he roved between Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and the Hijaz, railing against the colonial borders drawn by Sykes andÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
November 17, 2017
On Tuesday, a military coup in Zimbabwe led to the house arrest of President Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace, removing from power Africa's oldest head of state and one of its worst. This was no popular uprising against tyranny, however. Rather, it was a palace coup within the ruling ZANU-PF party.
The Guardian
November 3, 2017
It was 1am on 1 August this year when my best friend Rae and I were caught trying to cross into Syria from Iraq. Crouching in the dark, waiting for the signal from our Kurdish fixers to run, we could see the border no more than 100 yards away. Then a shout rang out. Suddenly we were surrounded by an IraqiÃÂ ...
smallwarsjournal
January 15, 2017
The Iraqi Army had been active in politics before the 1958 coup. In October 1936, Iraqi Army General Bakr Sidiqi, having been entrusted to act as Chief of Staff during the absence of his superior, led a putsch against the government of Prime Minister Yasin al-Hashimi. Sidiqi himself was assassinated andÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
September 27, 2016
Three of Talmadge's case studies —South Vietnam (1965-1975), Iraq, and Iran (1980-1988) — faced considerable threats of military coups and ... of coups (i.e. North Vietnam), as well as Iraqi, Iranian, or South Vietnamese units exempted from coup-proofing treatments (In the case of South Vietnam, someÃÂ ...
New Times SLO
December 31, 1999
The distracted media ignored Nazi aggression in 1936. Memoirs of Nazi generals state that had Britain or France stood up to Hitler at any point before the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the military would have overthrown him in a coup. The failure of the West to keep faith with the Czechs to guarantee theirÃÂ ...
Jamaica Observer
December 5, 2017
Trial of France's King Louis XVI begins; revolutionary coup takes place in Geneva. ... 1936: Soviet Union adopts new constitution under a Supreme Council. 1955: The ... 2005: The first witness to take the stand in the trial of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein recalls mass arrests, tortures and killings.
War on the Rocks
November 24, 2017
Orwell spent 6 months fighting with a leftist militia against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War, from December 1936 to 1937. ..... Poppies of Iraq by Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim: A graphic novel about a woman's reflections of growing up as the child of an Iraqi Arab father and French mother in Mosul, ...
New Statesman
November 24, 2017
The Iraqi security forces, supported by the Iranian-backed Shia militias of the Hashd al-Shaabi, pushed into many of the areas that the Kurds had held ..... with destroying the reforms of the republic, hostility to regional nationalism was one of the main motivations behind the military coup of 18 July 1936.
Guardian (blog)
November 9, 2017
The military would have none of that and staged a coup in 1936 determined to impose a unitary state and forge a single national identity ...
Manning Live
November 8, 2017
1936 – Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to ... 1942 – World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 ... 2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units ...
Yahoo7 News
November 2, 2017
1997 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatens to shoot down US ... Australian tennis star (1936-); Anna Wintour, English-born American ...
Winnipeg Free Press
October 31, 2017
On Oct. 31, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that proposals for financial relief ... In Iraq, a coup d'etat put a new government in power.
Freepress Online
October 26, 2017
Catalonia in Spain and Kurdistan in Iraq are cases of head versus heart. ... Observers held their breath on Spain, which fell apart in the 1936-39 civil war, but post-Franco held together, barely. (The Guardia Civil attempted a coup in 1981.) ... Turkish forces pursue into Iraqi Kurdistan PKK fighters, whose ...
Haaretz
October 15, 2017
The Year Is 1936. ... Coup, Islamic Revolution and Nuclear Deal: Key Moments in ... Jan. 29. 2002, President Bush labels North Korea, Iran and Iraq an "axis ... Guard trained Iraqi militants to build dangerous roadside bombs.
Center for Research on Globalization
October 12, 2017
And Orwell may well have been aware of the foiled fascist coup d'etat ... In 1936, knowing that he had to do something, Orwell joined the heroic .... East Timor, Haiti, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, ...
Middle East Online
September 26, 2017
When the Ba'athists took power in 1963, via a military coup, they promised to ... Some within the Alawite community petitioned the French in 1936, ... before becoming sovereign of Iraq, often suggested a Syrian-Iraqi Union ...
Haaretz
September 24, 2017
Organizers have stripped Miss Turkey 2017 of her crown over a social media posting that was deemed insulting to the memory of the 250Â ...
Jamaica Observer
September 11, 2017
1936: Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) began operation as ... 1973: Chile's President Salvador Allende died in a US-supported military coup, and military ... to the Persian Gulf region to confront the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
gulfnews.com
September 10, 2017
1936 US President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (now ... 1973 Chile's President Salvador Allende dies in a US-supported military coup. ... 2009 Inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison start a fire and clash with ...
Haaretz
July 17, 2017
“I was opposed to the coup and I'm not among Gulen's supporters, but I always felt that the university was a protected hothouse, where I could ...
Haaretz
July 13, 2017
A recently published book in the United States sheds light on a mysterious and dramatic incident in the history of the Israeli nuclear project, detailing how Yitzhak (Yicha) Yaakov was sent to take control of a nuclear device south of Tel Aviv. The real target, though, was much larger and even more important:Â ...
smallwarsjournal
January 15, 2017
The Iraqi Army had been active in politics before the 1958 coup. In October 1936, Iraqi Army General Bakr Sidiqi, having been entrusted to act ...
War on the Rocks
September 27, 2016
One month after the failure of the coup on July 15, Turkey decided to invade Syria. ... Iraq, and Iran (1980-1988) — faced considerable threats of military coups ... in armies unafraid of coups (i.e. North Vietnam), as well as Iraqi, ... 1936, the Imperial army had undergone extensive coup-proofing treatments.
In Defense of Marxism
July 6, 2016
Whilst trained Iraqi forces were needed to uphold private property, the ... that accompanied the coup in Iraq in July 1958, the 1936 events were ...
The Guardian
July 5, 2016
It was the morning of 17 April 1936, as they set off for the village of .... would become embroiled in a Nazi propaganda coup of spectacular proportions. ..... to classes full of Iraqi Kurds, Syrian Yazidis, Afghans and Eritreans.
Intermountain Jewish News
June 9, 2016
Every Iraqi Jew has a tale to tell about the Farhud, the two-day pogrom that ... the time was right for a coup against the pro-British government in Baghdad. ... which was especially pronounced during the Arab revolt of 1936-39.
The Guardian
May 12, 2016
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Adam ... Rightwing forces, led by Franco, launched a military coup against the .... from Vietnam to Nicaragua to El Salvador, and the invasion of Iraq.
PRI
April 1, 2016
"When Franco's coup of 1936 happened and these generals who called ... and Iraq — but Hochschild thinks the roots go far further into history.
Truthdig
December 31, 1999
The same goes for Trump's brazen killing of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Syria, his support for Saudi Arabia's U.S.-equipped devastation of Yemen, .... They undertook powerful non-electoral direct actions like the sit-down strike wave of 1936-37, the courageous lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
September 19, 2017
This move, which the opposition calls a coup, has sparked more protests .... overthrowing the Somoza Dynasty (1936-1979), personally finds the GTSD ..... .com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html?_r=0.
Jamaica Observer
September 11, 2017
1936: Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) began operation as ... 1973: Chile's President Salvador Allende died in a US-supported military coup, and military ... to the Persian Gulf region to confront the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
gulfnews.com
September 10, 2017
1936 US President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (now ... 1973 Chile's President Salvador Allende dies in a US-supported military coup. ... 2009 Inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison start a fire and clash withÃÂ ...
Manning Live
September 8, 2017
1936 – The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de ... through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. ... 2012 – A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
StarNewsOnline.com
July 17, 2017
In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic. ... resigned in the wake of charges of shoddy health care for veterans injured in the Iraq war.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
July 17, 2017
In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic. ... resigned in the wake of charges of shoddy health care for veterans injured in the Iraq war.
Sentinel-Tribune
July 17, 2017
In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic. ... resigned in the wake of charges of shoddy health care for veterans injured in the Iraq war.
Fabius Maximus website (blog)
July 15, 2017
Additional Arab revolts broke out in Palestine in 1929 and 1936-39 and in Iraq in 1940. ... The 1980s saw a massive war between Iraq and Iran. ... now by assisting a rebel group to mount a coup and overthrow a government,ÃÂ ...
Oneida Dispatch
July 12, 2017
In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic. ... resigned in the wake of charges of shoddy health care for veterans injured in the Iraq war.
Foreign Affairs
July 6, 2017
Turkey was undeniably transformed by last July's failed coup. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, having barely survived an attempt on this life,ÃÂ ...
The Federalist
June 21, 2017
In 1936, none other than Suleiman al-Assad, grandfather of Bashar, took up ... the Maronites of Lebanon, and the Assyrians and Yazidis of Iraq.
smallwarsjournal
January 15, 2017
The Iraqi Army had been active in politics before the 1958 coup. In October 1936, Iraqi Army General Bakr Sidiqi, having been entrusted to actÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
September 28, 2016
Historical Comparisons: The “Foiled” U.S. Fascist Coup Plot of 1934, ... William Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, in a letter to FDR (1936).
War on the Rocks
September 27, 2016
One month after the failure of the coup on July 15, Turkey decided to invade Syria. ... Iraq, and Iran (1980-1988) — faced considerable threats of military coups ... in armies unafraid of coups (i.e. North Vietnam), as well as Iraqi, Iranian, ... Following a failed revolt on February 26, 1936, the Imperial army hadÃÂ ...
The Guardian
July 5, 2016
It was the morning of 17 April 1936, as they set off for the village of .... would become embroiled in a Nazi propaganda coup of spectacular proportions. ..... to classes full of Iraqi Kurds, Syrian Yazidis, Afghans and Eritreans.
Intermountain Jewish News
June 9, 2016
Every Iraqi Jew has a tale to tell about the Farhud, the two-day pogrom that ... the time was right for a coup against the pro-British government in Baghdad. ... which was especially pronounced during the Arab revolt of 1936-39.
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