Mediterranean History

The text of multiple treatise, state, and international records related to the Middle East.

Includes constitutional and other related documents (e.g., treaties) for contemporary states across the Middle East and North Africa from the 19th century to the present.

A collection of official gazettes and other key historical government documentation from countries where the integrity of the public record is known to be at risk. Collection includes material from Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Mozambique, Somalia, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Sudan, Southern Rhodesia, Congo, Nigeria, Iran, British Somaliland, and Zimbabwe.

This collection offers the widest range of original source material from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974.

Collection includes: Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994
(Iraqgate); Targeting Iraq, Part 1: Planning, Invasion, and Occupation, 1997-2004
(Targeting Iraq, 1997-2004); U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
(Weapons of Mass Destruction); and
U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1945-1991 (Nuclear Nonproliferation)

The National Security Archive’s Iraq Project began in the early 1990s and has worked for more than two decades to secure and curate historically significant documents regarding U.S. relations with Iraq, with a specific emphasis on “Iraqgate” and the 2003 Iraq War.

Declassified Secrets from the U.S.-Iraq Relationship in the National Securities Archive.

Records of U.S. Foreign Assistance Agencies.

News and reports dating back to 1990 related to Human Rights in Iraq.