In 1930, King George V of Great Britain and Faisal, King of Iraq, signed a treaty that went into effect upon Iraq's admission to the League of Nations. Iraq was admitted to the League on October 3rd, ...

King Faisal, who became king of Iraq, first attempted to install himself in Damascus. His brother ended up on the throne of Jordan. Syria interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa disembarks from the ...

July 1958 – Chalabi and his family flee Iraq after King Faisal is killed in a military coup led by Abdul Karim Kassem. 1970-1977 – Teaches mathematics at the American University of Beirut in ...