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Category Archives: Iraq
May 30, 2013
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Bitter Enemies Join Forces to Spare Pentagon Deep Cuts
In recent months the Defense Department has been reviewing possible spending cuts to the Pentagon’s budget. On Monday, more than twenty military specialists from think tanks across the political spectrum will release a letter begging Congress to cut the fat and spare … Continue reading
May 26, 2013
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US Fiddles; Syria Burns; Iran’s Key Allies Call White House Bluff
It’s been clear for some time that Hezbollah fighters were aiding Assad in the Syrian Civil War, but now it’s official: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah announced on Saturday that Hezbollah is fully committed to keeping Assad in power, making the … Continue reading
May 21, 2013
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Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, and the Middle East in Flames
Two stories tell us that things in the Middle East may have just taken a dark and dangerous turn. First, Hezbollah fighters played a vital role in Butcher Assad’s assault on rebel-held Qusayr, a strategically positioned town in Syria. Dozens … Continue reading
May 17, 2013
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Horror Stories from the Place Formerly Known as Syria
Militiamen murder women and children and extinguish entire family lines. A rebel commander executes a dozen men on video. Another eats the heart of an enemy. ”These are the images of Syrian conflict,” Reuters reports, “the first war in which the … Continue reading
May 7, 2013
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More Failure Through Neglect: Iraq Edition
The Obama administration hoped it could walk away from Iraq without consequences. Unfortunately, this has been far from the case. Nouri al-Maliki’s ever closer ties with Iran have pushed him to support Assad in Syria despite Assad’s earlier support for … Continue reading
April 26, 2013
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Iraq Catching Fire as Syria Burns
As the United States weighs its options in Syria over Assad’s use of chemical weapons, the violence in Iraq is flaring up into what increasingly looks like open warfare. Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook Suleiman Beg, a Sunni town … Continue reading
April 22, 2013
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Disillusioned Iraqis Vote amid Widening Sectarian Divide
Iraqis turned out across the country to vote in provincial elections over the weekend. Unfortunately, barely half of the country’s eligible voters went to the polls, much lower than the 72 percent who voted in 2009. “It’s show business. The … Continue reading
March 28, 2013
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Iraq Antsy as Syria Boils Over
One of the reasons we favored faster action on Syria in the past two years is that a sectarian war across the Fertile Crescent, perhaps pouring into Iran itself, would advance no US interests that we can think of, quite … Continue reading
March 20, 2013
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The Iraq War at Ten
On the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Meghan O’Sullivan, former Deputy National Security Advisor for President Bush, has a piece up at TAI looking back at the conflict and the lessons Americans have drawn from it: Given the complexity of U.S. efforts … Continue reading
March 5, 2013
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The War in Syria Won’t Stay in Syria
The war in Syria just strayed into Iraq. Forty-eight Syrian soldiers were killed yesterday inside Iraq, in a well-coordinated ambush by gunmen whose identities remain unknown. Numerous reports say the soldiers were unarmed and many of them were wounded. They … Continue reading
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WRM in the WSJ: Al Qaeda Still a Threat to US
WRM has an op-ed in the WSJ on how al-Qaeda remains a serious threat to the US even after its failures in Iraq and the death of bin Laden: At this stage, the terrain favors America’s enemies. In places like … Continue reading
January 15, 2013
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Is Civil War About to Return to Iraq?
A Sunni member of Iraq’s parliament was assassinated by a suicide bomber today, just two days after a failed roadside bomb attack, apparently aimed at the finance minister (also Sunni). The AP reports: The governor of Anbar province, Qassim al-Fahdawi, … Continue reading
January 10, 2013
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Iraqi Political Crisis Deepens — And That is the Good News
Many wondered how the Iraqi government would survive after the last U.S. troops left the country. Thus far, the signs are mixed: Parliamentary institutions are working, sort of, but a lot of the political wrangling is taking place on the … Continue reading
January 4, 2013
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What a Car Bomb in Iraq Means for the Civil War in Syria
A car bomb ripped through a procession of Shia pilgrims today in Musayyib, Iraq, almost 40 miles south of Baghdad, killing 27 people. The bombers were most likely Sunnis trying to reignite Iraq’s civil war. As the Shia regime of Iraqi Prime … Continue reading
December 17, 2012
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Bomb Attacks Destabilize Iraq’s Kurdish Areas
The standoff between Iraq’s central government and the de facto independent Kurdish Regional Government has taken a turn for the worse. Over the weekend, at least 26 people were killed in attacks in the ethnically mixed disputed territories (which the KRG … Continue reading
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