The Atlantic | How Will Iraq Contain Iran's Proxies? The Atlantic With ISIS vanquished and Iraq's security forces reconstituted and reorganized (thanks to U.S. training and support), some expected that Sistani would revoke his fatwa and dismantle the PMF last December. But Sistani cannot simply dissolve the PMF, a ... |
The Moscow Times | The jihadists' rainy-day fundIslamic State has been stashing millions of dollars in Iraq and abroad The Economist GONE are the days when the black flag fluttered over a third of Iraq and almost half of Syria. Crushed on the battlefield, Islamic State has lost roughly 98% of its self-proclaimed “caliphate”. Some 70,000 of its fighters (who numbered perhaps 100,000 ... Iraq hands over to Russia 4 women, 27 children linked to Islamic State Iraq Returns 27 Russian Children Home From Islamic State Iraq hands ISIL widows and children to Russia |
The Nation. | Why We Need to Remember the Iraq War—As Well as the Global Resistance to It The Nation. Throughout 2002 and into 2003, while George W. Bush's “Global War on Terror” raged across Afghanistan, Washington continued to build support for a war against Iraq. We need to remember how the mainstream media obediently fell—or eagerly jumped—into ... |
Iraq urges FIFA to end three-decade home internationals ban ESPN FC Iraq wants FIFA to lift its ban on competitive home internationals, the country's sports minister has said. The ban was imposed following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, but the Iraqi authorities hope that the hosting of Gulf football friendlies in ... |
Locus Online | Amy Goldschlager Reviews Iraq + 100 Audiobook by Hassan Blassim Locus Online The last story, which chronicles a pilgrimage to Iraq that isn't quite what it seems, is one of the most solid and hopeful of the bunch, an argument for remembering the past while refusing to be imprisoned by it, and in favor of moving on to make a ... |
The Fort Campbell Courier | STRIKE: 2nd BCT receives OIR streamer following Iraq deployment The Fort Campbell Courier Soldiers with 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division stood tall on Strike Field Tuesday as an Iraq campaign streamer was added to the brigade's guidon. Major General Andrew P. Poppas, commanding general of the 101st Abn. Div. and Fort ... |
Telegraph.co.uk | Decorated British Army major cleared seven times facing new Iraq inquiry Telegraph.co.uk A decorated Army major who has faced seven separate inquiries over the death of an Iraqi teenager 15 years ago is now being investigated for an eighth time, the Telegraph has learned. Major Robert Campbell said he had been “broken” by the discovery ... Army major left 'broken' by new Iraq inquiry |
ISHM: February 16 – 22, 2018 ReliefWeb Russian Tanks Delivered to Iraq While the U.S. Wants Theirs out of the Hands of Militias – A report to Congress by the US Inspector General for Overseas Contingency Operations indicated that as many as nine M-1 Abrams tanks sold to the Iraqi Army by ... |
CNN | ISIS claims attack on Shiite militia in Iraq; 27 dead - CNN CNN ISIS claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a Shiite militia group near the Iraqi city of Hawija over the weekend, an ambush that left more than two dozen slain. ISIL claims attack on pro-government militia in Iraq Turkish forces in Iraq “invaders” – Iraqi ambassador | Ahval Iraq: German 'Islamic State' bride sentenced to 6 years in prison |
Iraq says it handed over 4 women, 27 children suspected of ISIS ties to Russia The Straits Times ERBIL, IRAQ (REUTERS) - Iraq has handed over to Russia four women and 27 children suspected of having ties to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group, local television broadcaster Al-Sumaria quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying on ... |