updated Fri. April 19, 2024
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Haaretz
April 1, 2018
It isn't hard to find signs that Iran is winning a proxy war with Saudi Arabia in Iraq. There are the Iraqi Shi'ite militias that have sworn allegiance to Iran and the politicians beholden to Tehran. There are the Iranian companies that make everything from Baghdad's yellow taxis to the refrigerators and airÃâà...
Rudaw
April 1, 2018
Hashd al-Shaabi and Iraqi troops on Saturday launched an operation against ISIS sleeper cells in the west of Amirli town and Ghaza area south of ... won in Iraq, the group's sleeper cells have in recent months increased their hit and run operations against Iraqi forces and Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitaries.
BuzzFeed News
April 1, 2018
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared ISIS defeated last December, a call likely timed to give his coalition's reelection prospects a boost ahead .... Iraq spawned both the radical Sunni groups that morphed into ISIS and the Iranian-backed Shia militias that fight alongside Bashar al-Assad's regime inÃâà...
Iraqi News
April 1, 2018
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria. Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi declared in July victory over IS militants who had held the second largest Iraqi city since 2014. More thanÃâà...
The Australian
March 30, 2018
It is less than four years since the homicidal zealots of Islamic State stood on the doorstep of Baghdad, their black flag already fluttering over several other Iraqi cities. The jihadists triumphed, albeit temporarily, because disgruntled Sunnis, former Baathists and others who felt alienated by the rule of NouriÃâà...
Newsweek
March 9, 2018
They have been accused of marginalizing and even targeting non-Shiite Muslims, especially Sunni Muslims, but have denied these charges. Instead, they have focused on expelling the prolonged U.S. military mission in Iraq. The U.S. invaded the Middle Eastern power in 2003, accusing Iraqi PresidentÃâà...
The Economist
December 31, 1999
IT IS less than four years since the homicidal zealots of Islamic State (IS) stood on the doorstep of Baghdad, their black flag already fluttering over several other Iraqi cities. The jihadists triumphed, albeit temporarily, because disgruntled Sunnis, former Baathists and others who felt alienated by the rule ofÃâà...
The National Interest Online
December 31, 1999
Domestically, within Iraq, a decade of ineffective and corrupt state-building plagued by an anti-American insurgency, destructive Sunni-Shi'a tensions, and neglect towards Sunnis, lower-class Shi'a, and other marginal groups hallowed out the Iraqi state. The success of ISIS was in part enabled by a weakÃâà...
