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unusual facts about Kingdom of Iraq


RAF Hinaidi

Royal Air Force Station Hinaidi was a British Royal Air Force station near Baghdad in the Kingdom of Iraq.


Khairi Al-Hindawi

Hengam Island because of a popular movement versus the British occupation, after nine month he came back to achieve great success in his job, plus gaining the trust of The Iraqi Kingdom government, specially Faisal I, he was like a friend to him.


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Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein

On July 14, 1958, when Colonel Abdul Karim Qassim took control of the Kingdom of Iraq by a coup d'état, the royal family was ordered to leave the palace in Baghdad: King Faisal II; Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah; Princess Hiyam, Abdul Ilah's wife; Princess Nafeesa, Abdul Ilah’s mother, Princess Abadiya, the king’s aunt; and several servants.