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Church Militant
April 4, 2018
Bands of Islamist terrorists began targeting followers of Christ not long after the 2003 overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein, with al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) proclaiming publicly that all "infidels" in Iraq should prepare for death. But after a focused, years-long social, political and military campaign by coalitionÃâà...
theday.com
April 3, 2018
Kennedy grew up in Monroe and joined the Army in May 2006, deploying to Iraq in June 2007, where his unit was responsible for disrupting al-Qaeda in Iraq supply lines. After he got back from Iraq, Kennedy abused alcohol, self-mutilated and began having suicidal thoughts despite leading his team to topÃâà...
War on the Rocks
April 3, 2018
A year later, in September 2005, al-Qaeda in Iraq — ISIL's parent organization — followed suit. The same year, a Belgian woman named Muriel Degauque became the first European female suicide bomber when she attacked a U.S. military convoy near Baghdad. In the following years, al-Qaeda in IraqÃâà...
Royal Gazette
April 3, 2018
He said the Trump Administration was determined not to repeat the mistake the Obama Administration made in Iraq, when “a premature departure ... allowed al-Qaeda in Iraq to survive and eventually morph into Isis”. Does Trump agree with that position? The multiple other players in Syria, including RussiaÃâà...
Common Dreams
April 1, 2018
There was no Al-Qaeda in Iraq before the U.S. and British invasion. It first appeared in Iraq in 2004, when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi formed an alliance with Al-Qaeda, pledging his allegiance to Osama bin Laden in return for his endorsement as the leader of the group's franchise in Iraq. Al-Qaeda's mainÃâà...
Long War Journal
March 22, 2018
Then, in July 2016, the Defense Department announced the killing of Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari, who served as the Islamic State's “deputy minister of war.” Al-Bajari originally joined al Qaeda in Iraq and continued to work his way up through the ranks of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi's enterprise.
Newsweek
March 19, 2018
Some of these individuals and many ultraconservative Islamists formed jihadi groups such as Al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2004, which became part of the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006. It was around this period that a war initially backed by up to 71 percent of the U.S. population lost a majority of its supporters,Ãâà...
The Daily Star
March 8, 2018
BAGHDAD: A Baghdad court has convicted the sister of the former leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq who was killed in 2010 and sentenced her to death on terrorism charges, a spokesman said Thursday. The spokesman of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, Abdel-Sattar Bayrkdar, said in a statement that Abu OmarÃâà...
CBS News
March 8, 2018
BAGHDAD -- A Baghdad court has convicted the sister of the former leader of al Qaeda in Iraq who was killed in 2010 and sentenced her to death on terrorism charges, a spokesman said Thursday. The spokesman of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar, said in a statement that AbuÃâà...
Jordan Times
December 31, 1999
During 2011-2012 unrest in Syria, a new theatre of war opened for Al Qaeda in Iraq. It founded Jabhat Al Nusra and dispatched veteran fighters to Syria and rebranded itself Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria (Daesh) and deployed more taqfiris to Syria, where they rivaled and often clashed with the Jabhat AlÃâà...
The Economist
December 31, 1999
Iraq now looks much as it did in 2010, another election year, shortly after the defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the precursor to IS. That victory was thanks largely to America's support for “awakened” Sunni fighters, many of whom were repelled by the jihadists' brutality. The Kurds, at the time, co-operated with theÃâà...
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