Question: When did Muslim armies invade Iraq and one of the home countries of foreigners living in the country where Bengt Lagerberg's band is from?

The Muslim conquest of the Levant (Arabic: اَلْـفَـتْـحُ الْإٍسْـلَامِيُّ لِـلـشَّـامِ ‎, Al - Faṫṫḥul - Islāmiyyuash - Shām) or Arab conquest of the Levant (Arabic: اَلْـفَـتْـحُ الْـعَـرَبِيُّ لِـلـشَّـامِ ‎, Al - Faṫṫḥul - ʿArabiyyu Lish - Shām) occurred in the first half of the 7th century, and refers to the conquest of the region known as the Levant or Shaam (Arabic: شَـام ‎, 'Syria'), later to become the Islamic Province of Bilad al - Sham, as part of the Islamic conquests. Arab Muslim forces had appeared on the southern borders even before the death of prophet Muhammad in 632, resulting in the Battle of Mu'tah in 629, but the real invasion began in 634 under his successors, the Rashidun Caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar ibn Khattab, with Khalid ibn al - Walid as their most important military leader. <SEP> prior to 1948, approximately 800,000 jews were living in lands which now make up the arab world (excluding israel). of these, just under two-thirds lived in the french-controlled maghreb region, 15–20% in the kingdom of iraq, approximately 10% in the kingdom of egypt and approximately 7% in the kingdom of yemen. a further 200,000 lived in pahlavi iran and the republic of turkey. today, around 26,000 jews live in arab countries and around 30,000 in iran and turkey. a small-scale exodus had begun in many countries in the early decades of the 20th century, although the only substantial aliyah came from yemen and syria. the exodus from arab and muslim countries took place primarily from 1948. the first large-scale exoduses took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily in iraq, yemen and libya, with up to 90% of these communities leaving within a few years. the peak of the exodus from egypt occurred in 1956. the exodus in the maghreb countries peaked in the 1960s. lebanon was the only arab country to see a temporary increase in its jewish population during this period, due to an influx of refugees from other arab countries, although by the mid-1970s the jewish community of lebanon had also dwindled. in the aftermath of the exodus wave from arab states, an additional migration of iranian jews peaked in the 1980s when around 80% of iranian jews left the country. [citation needed] <SEP> The Cardigans are a Swedish rock band formed in Jönköping, Sweden, in 1992 by guitarist Peter Svensson, bassist Magnus Sveningsson, drummer Bengt Lagerberg, keyboardist Lars-Olof Johansson and lead singer Nina Persson. The group's line-up has been very stable, the only change being that their post-hiatus shows since 2012 have been with Oskar Humlebo on guitar instead of Svensson. <SEP> tug of war was contested as a team event in the summer olympics at every olympiad from 1900 to 1920. originally the competition was entered by groups called clubs. a country could enter more than one club in the competition, making it possible for one country to earn multiple medals. this happened in 1904, when the united states won all three medals, and in 1908 when the podium was occupied by three british teams. sweden was also among the top countries with two medals, one as a member of the mixed team. <SEP> Between 1820 and 1930, approximately 1.3 million Swedes, a third of the country's population at the time, emigrated to North America, and most of them to the United States. There are more than 4.4 million Swedish Americans according to a 2006 US Census Bureau estimate. In Canada, the community of Swedish ancestry is 330,000 strong.There are no official statistics on ethnicity, but according to Statistics Sweden, around 3,193,089 (31.5%) inhabitants of Sweden were of a foreign background in 2017, defined as being born abroad or born in Sweden with at least one parent born abroad. Sweden subsequently has one of the oldest populations in the world, with the average age of 41.1 years. The most common countries of origin were Syria (1.70%), Finland (1.49%), Iraq (1.39%), Poland (0.90%), Iran (0.73%) and Somalia (0.66%). <SEP> Bengt Lagerberg (born 5 July 1973), is best known as the drummer in the Swedish rock band The Cardigans. He is currently living in Malmö.