Another war breaks out in Iraq

2nd May 1941: Pro German Arab rebels in Iraq are taken by surprise when the RAF resists their takeover with bombing raids

Troops loyal to the new regime in Iraq on the streets of Baghdad, April 1941.

It might be thought that Britain could not cope with another outbreak of hostilities, having just evacuated Greece and facing German aggression in Libya. But a new regime in Iraq, sympathetic to Hitler, thought otherwise.

Following Iraqi independence in 1932, Britain enjoyed goo…