Anglo-Iraqi War

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The Anglo-Iraqi War was a British-led Allied military campaign during the Second World War against the Kingdom of Iraq, then ruled by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani who had seized power in the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état with assistance from Germany and Italy.

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Image: Tanner A R (Lieut); No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.