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Bombs over Iraq, then and now
![Bombs over Iraq, then and now Bombs over Iraq, then and now](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Iraq.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1)
1920s The Ottoman Empire collapsed after its defeat in the First World War, and the victorious British took control of Mesopotamia. In April 1920 the League of Nations granted them a mandate, effectively imperial rule until the country was ‘mature’ enough for independence, to administer the whole area, now renamed Iraq. Even before the mandate, […]