Iraq may claim Jordan, Kuwait
"The president of Iraq's interim Governing Council has said Baghdad would consider territorial claims over neighbouring Jordan and Kuwait in the future.
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During British rule after the first world war, two branches of the Hashemite royal family governed Iraq and Jordan.
In 1958 King Husayn of Jordan and his first cousin King Faisal
of Iraq declared an Arab Hashemite Federation between their
countries. But the monarchy was overthrown in Iraq later the same year.
Baghdad has for decades laid claim to Kuwait as an integral part of Iraq, arguing the emirate was artificially separated by the British colonisers. (...)"
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