syrian-iraqi relations

The exiled members of the National Bloc in Iraq after the 1940 murder of Shahbandar
They are pictured at the residence of Iraqi Minister Mohammad Subhi al-Daftari in Baghdad. Second from left is Jamil Mardam Bey, followed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Said, then Saadallah al-Jabiri, and Lutfi al-Haffari.

President Shukri al-Quwatli with the boy king of Iraq, Faisal II in 1946
President Shukri al-Quwatli with the boy king of Iraq, Faisal II.

Jamil Mardam Bey with Prince Abdul-Illah, Regent of Iraq, in 1946
Prime Minister Jamil Mardam Bey in Daraa near the border with Jordan with Prince Abdul-Illah, the Regent of Iraq. From left to right: Mohammad al-Ayesh, the Deputy Speaker of the Syrian Parliament, Jamil Mardam Bey, and Prince Abdul-Illah.

President Quwatli with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Said in Damascus in 1945
From left to right: Prime Minister Saadallah al-Jabiri, President Shukri al-Quwatli, Prime Minister Nuri Pasha al-Said. Standing behind Quwatli is former Syrian Prime Minister Nasuh al-Boukhari

Arab and Western Ambassadors presenting their credentials to President Quwatli in 1944
From left to right: Jordanian Ambassador Abdul Monem al-Rifaii, US Ambassador George Wadsworth, Soviet Ambassador Daniel Solod, Iraqi Ambassador Tahseen Qadri, Saudi Ambassador Abdul Aziz Ibin Zayd, the French General Delegate to Syria and Lebanon, General Beynet, Prime Minister Fares al-Khury, President Shukri al-Quwatli, British Ambassador Edward Spears, Speaker of Parliament Saadallah al-Jabiri, and Foreign Minister Jamil Mardam Bey.

Abdullah al-Khani, the director of protocol at the Presidential Palace welcoming King Faisal II of Iraq in 1951
Abdullah al-Khani (left) the director of protocol at the Presidential Palace in Syria, welcoming King Faisal II of Iraq on February 30, 1951.

The journalist Nasuh Babil with King Faisal II of Iraq
From leeft to right: King Faisal II, Nasuh Bail, the publisher of al-Ayyam newspaper, Regent to the Iraqi throne, Prince Abdul-Illah

Foreign Minister Faydi al-Atasi welcoming King Faisal II to Syria in 1955
From left to right: Interior Minister Ahmad Qanbar, Foreign Minister Atasi, King Faisal II, Chief-of-Staff Tawfiq Nizam al-Din

Arab leaders assembled in Cairo in 1968
From left to right: President Houari Boumédiène of Algeria, President Nur al-Din al-Atasi of Syria, President Abdulsalam Aref of Iraq, and President Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt.

The Arab Summit in Baghdad in November 1978
From left to right: President Hafez al-Assad, Iraqi President Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, Vice-President Saddam Hussein, Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss

President Assad at the Arab Summit in Baghdad in 1978
From left to right: Iraqi Vice-President Saddam Hussein, President Hafez al-Assad, Algerian Abdul-Aziz Bouteflika, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam

President Hafez al-Assad at an Arab Summit in Baghdad in 1978
From left to right: President Hafez al-Assad, Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry, Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein, and Iraqi Culture Minister Tarek Aziz

King Faisal II of Iraq visiting the Presidential Palace in Damascus in 1957
From left to right: President Shukri al-Quwatli, King Faisal II, Speaker of Parliament Nazem al-Qudsi

A Syrian-Iraqi Summit at the Presidential Palace in Damascus in August 1949
From left to right: Prime Minister Nazem al-Qudsi, Parliament Speaker Rushdi al-Kikhiya, President Hashem al-Atasi, King Faisal II of Iraq, Regent to the Iraqi Throne, Prince Abdul-Illah. Kikhiya and Qudsi were founders of the People's Party that called for unification between Syria and Hashemite Iraq