Anglo-Iraqi War

British-led Allied military campaign against Iraq under Rashid Ali during World War II

1934 fighter aircraft family by Gloster

The '''''' () was a pogrom carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on 1–2 June 1941 (coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot), immediately following the British victory in the Anglo-Iraqi War. The riots occurred in a power vacuum that followed the collapse of the pro-Fascist and pro-Nazi government of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani while the city was in a state of instability. The violence came immediately after the rapid defeat of Rashid Ali by British forces, whose earlier coup had generated a short period of national euphoria, and was fueled by allegations that Iraqi Jews h

coup d'état

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cover name for a German military mission to Iraq during World War II

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former Royal Air Force in Iraq

1941 directive of Adolf Hitler ordering German support for Arab nationalists in Iraq