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Iraqi soldiers march during the Army Day celebrations in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009. The Iraqi Army was activated on Jan. 6 1921 while under British rule. At the end of World War I, the League of Nations granted the area to the United Kingdom as a mandate. It initially formed two former Ottoman vilayets (regions): Baghdad, and Basra merged into a single country in August 1921. Five years later, in 1926, the northern vilayet of Mosul was added, forming the territorial boundaries of the modern Iraqi state.(AP) |
