In April 2014 some documents’ ruins were found at the former Iraqi Embassy at the GDR in Berlin. Fao, die geschichte der befreiung is a propaganda book about the re-conquest of the Faw peninsula by the Iraqi at the end of the Iran-Iraq war. In 1899 German archaeologist Robert Koldewey starts excavations in the archaeological site of Babylon for the future Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin. Between the 21st and the 24th of July 2008 Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki visited the Federal Republic of Germany and met Chancellor Angela Merkel. In August 1921, Faisal ibn Hussein was crowned King of Iraq. A nation was born. Because Iraq did not have a national anthem yet, during the ceremony the band played God Save the King. Gertrude Bell is present at the ceremony. On the 30th of December 2006, Saddam Husayn death sentence is executed by hanging on the Eid al-Adha day. In 1926 Gertrude Bell founded the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Few days before the execution, Saddam’s lawyers released his last letter. In 1930 the reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate from originals brought by Koldewey at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin is finished. The 28th of August 2004, Germany resumes diplomatic relations with Iraq with the accreditation of an Iraqi ambassador in Berlin. Starting from 1958 a copy of the Ishtar Gate is built at the entrance of the Iraq Museum. 1st of May 2003: U.S. invasion of Iraq. Germany’s Chancellor Schröder declared his opposition to the invasion. In 1966 the Iraq Museum new facilities open. They have been built with the help of the German Government. 16th December 1998, Operation Desert Fox started. In December 1978 an Archaeological Symposium gathered scholars from many countries to promote the Babylon Archaeological Revival Project. On the 3rd of March 1991 Iraq accepts the terms of the U.S. ceasefire. In 1983 the New Museum building in Baghdad is built by the Italian Government. In a speech to Parliament on the 31st of January 1991, Chancellor Helmut Kohl warned Germans that they would not be able to avoid playing a role in the war against Iraq by increasing military and financial aid to Israel. On the 9th of December 1983 in Florence the 7th UNESCO World Heritage Committee deferred the inscription of Babylon to the list. On January 1991 the GDR Iraqi embassy is abandoned in a rush. In 1986 Saddam Hussein orders the reconstruction of replicas of the ancient walls of Babylon alongside the Procession Street. New bricks are inscribed with the following: “From Nebuchadnezzar to Saddam Hussein, Babylon rises anew on the path of construction and glorious jehadˮ. 16th of January 1991: U.S. Government launches Operation Desert Storm. On the 22nd of September 1987 the first Babylon International Festival took place. Iraq invades Kuwait on the 2nd of August 1990. On the 8th of August 1989 the Victory Arch celebrating the victory against Iran is inaugurated in Baghdad. The basement of the triumphal arch is filled of thousands of Iranian Army helmets. 9th of November 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall. On 1989, during the third edition of the Babylon International Festival, the opera Nabucco was staged in the renewed Greek Theatre in Babylon. 17th of April 1988: Iraq launches Operation Ramadan Mubarak to regain the Faw Peninsula. Satellite information provided by U.S. Intelligence services served to plan the operation. During the operation Iraq used mass chemical weapons and high technology ballistics missiles acquired throughout West German firms. On May 2002, Iraq claimed the return of antiquities from Berlin Museums. In February 1986 Iran successfully attacks the Faw Peninsula. On 2003, after the U.S. Troops enter Baghdad, the Iraq Museum is looted. March 1984: First attested Iraqi use of tabun gas during the Iran- Iraq war at al-Basrah. On April 2003, U.S. Troops install Camp Alpha on the Babylon Archaeological site. The headquarters are located in Saddam’s presidential palace covered with marble. On the 16th of January 1984 Gildemeister Projecta GmbH signs a contract to build a R&D centre known as Saad 16 near Mosul. Since 2007 Iraqi Government renewed tentative to list Babylon as UNESCO World Heritage. On August 1983 the first Iraqi use of mustard gas during the Iran- Iraq war was attested at Haij Umran. On December 2008 the Iraq Museum partially re-opened its doors. In 1983 Karl Kolb GmbH started to provide services to Iraqi Government Agencies in order to design and build chemical production facilities in al-Qaim and in Samarra. On June 2009 UNESCO published an official report about the damages that Coalition troops made on the archaeological site of Babylon. In 1981 Water Engineering Trading GmbH (WET) sold to Iraq special machine tools to convert conventional 122-millimetre shells into poison-gas projectiles. In January 2012 German Government returned to Iraq forty-five Sumerian archaeological items looted from the country. On the 22nd of September 1980 – Iraqi invasion of Iran sparks the war between the two countries. On the 28th of February 2015 the Iraq Museum was officially reopened..