EMBASSY

Iraq now became a province of the Muslim Caliphate. At first the capital of the Caliphate was at Madinah, but after the murder of the third Calipha Uthman, in 656 A.D., his successor, Ali, made Iraq his base. In 661 A.D., however, Ali was murdered in Al-Kufah, and the Caliphate passed to the Umayyad family in Syria . Iraq became a subordinate province... At the end of World War I, the League of Nations gave the United Kingdom a mandate to administer Iraq until it established its own government. Many Iraqis resented the British, and public rebellions broke out in Iraq in 1920. The British reacted by setting up a new government. King Faisal I became the first king of Iraq . In 1930, the United Kingdom and Iraqi government signed a treaty which stated that the British government would provide military protection and eventual independence and Iraq would continue to allow the United Kingdom to use the British air bases in Iraq . Iraq became an independent state in 1932. King Faisal I died..

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