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British Mandate (1918-1932)
The British invaded Iraq during World War I in the Mesopotamian Campaign. They invaded southern Mesopotamia in November 1914. The Battle of Ctesiphon was fought in November 1915. The undermanned and overstretched British forces were defeated by the Turks, who besieged the British in the city of Kut-al-Amara for 143 days in the Siege of Kut, ending with a British surrender, with 10,000 men becoming prisoners in April 1916. The British took the middle eastern campaign more seriously following this defeat, transferring command from India to the main British command, and General Frederick Stanley Maude was put in charge of British forces, leading the British to a series of victories. The battles of Mohammed Abdul Hassan, Hai and Dahra were won by the British in January 1917. In February they recaptured Kut. On March 11, 1917 the British occupied Baghdad after the Fall of Baghdad (1917).
Between 1920 and 1922 the British put down an Iraqi revolt costing them 40 million pounds to do so.

Faisal I, leader of Iraq from 1921-33, helped to make his country fully independent in 1932.

Post-colonial monarchy (1932-1958)
See also Anglo-Iraqi War (1941)
On April 30, 1941 four generals overthrew the Iraqi government in the Iraq coup (1941) The British were concerned that Axis powers might get involved in Iraq, as the new government was pro-Axis. The British landed troops at Basra, while Iraqi nationalists retreated to Falluja. The German Luftwaffe flew sorties under Iraqi colours from Mosul against Commonwealth forces, though will little results. A brief war was fought between British and Iraqi troops in May 1941, leading in a British victory. Iraq declared war on the Axis on January 17, 1943.

...who has meddled in whose "Lifestyle"? Who has seen fit to attack people from a distance, raining down bombs on civilians? Who`s been ASKING for it for decades now?

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