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War on the Rocks
February 6, 2018
It was soon evident that the campaign plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, although delivering as promised in toppling Saddam and his military, did not have a realistic vision for what would ... There were no “Sons of Iraq” militias in the thousands to be bought off (although the U.S. military certainly tried).
Xinhua
January 18, 2018
LISBON, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- The twin sons of Iraq's former ambassador to Portugal have been charged with attempted murder, the Portuguese public prosecution service revealed on Thursday. The charges relate to an incident that occurred on Aug. 17, 2016 in Ponte de Sor, a rural area 180 km northeast ofÃÂ ...
RT
October 25, 2017
Iraqi militias have made huge sacrifices for their country and has become a legitimate force on the ground, Iraq's FM told RT, describing as hypocritical ... The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU/PMF) militias are sons of Iraq, whose sacrifices in the war against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists areÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
July 22, 2017
"The US doesn't have the right to say that people's militia, which is comprised of the sons of Iraq, of whom 20,000 have been killed and wounded, are terrorists. If it weren't for the people's militia, there wouldn't be any Sunnis or Shiites left." "Iraqi society is against foreign bases on our territory… I told theÃÂ ...
British GQ
July 10, 2017
To the north, in Saladin Governorate, a painfully slow Iraqi offensive was under way, grinding away at Islamic State fighters holding Tikrit. As Iraqi government forces there were shoehorned forwards, block by block, by coalition air strikes, it seemed that Islamic State might, at last, be in decline as their earlierÃÂ ...
The Good Men Project (blog)
March 8, 2017
After months of fighting, Iraqi Security Forces have finally regained control of the eastern half of Mosul, the last urban stronghold of Islamic State in Iraq. They are now advancing on the city's west. The Conversation. The recapture of the northern Iraqi city will be a strategic victory for Iraq and its internationalÃÂ ...
The Conversation AU
February 27, 2017
After months of fighting, Iraqi Security Forces have finally regained control of the eastern half of Mosul, the last urban stronghold of Islamic State in Iraq. They are now advancing on the city's west. The recapture of the northern Iraqi city will be a strategic victory for Iraq and its international partners. But did itÃÂ ...
Business Insider
November 3, 2014
What was the Iraqi government's attitude towards your group, and did any of your fighters get integrated into the security forces or civil service? The Americans promised to merge the SOI [Sons of Iraq] with the security forces and other governmental organizations. Most of the people I know that were hiredÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy
October 30, 2013
And various actions by the Iraqi government have undermined the reconciliation initiatives of the surge that enabled the sense of Sunni Arab inclusion ..... And, ultimately, a year and a half into the surge, we had on our payroll more than 100,000 "Sons of Iraq" (more than 20,000 of them Shiite), young menÃÂ ...
The Conversation AU
February 27, 2017
After months of fighting, Iraqi Security Forces have finally regained control of the eastern half of Mosul, the last urban stronghold of Islamic State in Iraq. They are now advancing on the city's west. The recapture of the northern Iraqi city ... Sons ...
Fresno Bee
February 22, 2017
The Sons of Iraq creamed the Americans, 9-0. His most acclaimed piece was about Iraq's national baseball team. What's more American than that?
Eurasia Review
February 20, 2017
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki replaced competent leaders with political cronies, marginalized the Sons of Iraq (Al-Sahwa or Awakening Councils), which consisted of groups of Sunni fighters that had fought and nearly defeated al-Qaeda in ...
The Portugal News
September 3, 2016
Portugal's foreign ministry has asked for an urgent reply from the Iraqi authorities about lifting the diplomatic immunity on the sons of Iraq's ambassador in Lisbon. The foreign ministry has also scheduled a meeting between Portugal's and Iraq's ...
Al-Arabiya
August 25, 2016
In televised comments Santos Silva said: "if the investigation requires asking Iraq to lift diplomatic immunity of the two sons of the ambassador, the foreign ministry will make this request and will expect cooperation" from Iraq. He met the Iraqi ...
The Independent
August 19, 2016
The twin sons of Iraq's ambassador to Portugal have been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a brutal attack on a 15-year-old boy - but the two teenagers may be protected from prosecution by diplomatic immunity laws.
The American Conservative
July 13, 2016
The liberation last month of the Sunni city of Fallujah from a two-year ISIS stranglehold was celebrated as a rare victory by Iraqi forces and their U.S. backers amid a summer of bloody terror attacks across the Middle East and Europe. But as the first ...
The American Conservative
July 13, 2016
The liberation last month of the Sunni city of Fallujah from a two-year ISIS stranglehold was celebrated as a rare victory by Iraqi forces and their U.S. backers amid a summer of bloody terror attacks across the Middle East and Europe. But as the first ...
Al-Monitor
July 12, 2016
Every time the Iraqi security forces achieve victory with PMU participation, there are reports of abuses by the mostly Shiite PMU, followed by demands that the group be excluded from operations to liberate Sunni areas.
The Straits Times
July 11, 2016
For much of this millennium's first decade, Mr George W. Bush was the president of the United States and his administration was preoccupied with 9/11, the "War on Terror", and actual wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. .... China, perhaps too hastily ...
gulfnews.com
July 5, 2016
The Iraqi armed forces, along with Shiite militia groups and support from Iran and the United States-led international coalition against Daesh, recently took back control of Fallujah and will soon start its operation to retake Mosul - its last ...
Asia Times
May 31, 2016
Any effective action against ISIS enhances the Kurds' political standing and advances the day when they will have their own state including the northwest of Iraq and the southeast of Turkey, as well as the southwest corner of Iran and a large swath of ...
teleSUR English
April 22, 2016
At its peak, 103,000 Sunni fighters, were put on the U.S. payroll and proclaimed the "Sons of Iraq," paid to attack al-Qaida's local affiliate rather than U.S.
Peninsula On-line
April 14, 2016
BAGHDAD: A rallying cry to Iraqi Sunnis from former President Saddam Hussein's top surviving aide aims to bolster the old ruling Baath party's appeal with Sunni Muslims fearing new reprisals by Shi'ite militias, experts said.
The Economist
April 14, 2016
Michael Pregent, a former Intelligence Officer who served as an adviser to Kurdish peshmerga fighters in 2005-06 and worked with Sons of Iraq during the 2007 surge (and is now at the Hudson Institute, a think-tank), says no force large enough to do the ...
Peninsula On-line
April 14, 2016
BAGHDAD: A rallying cry to Iraqi Sunnis from former President Saddam Hussein's top surviving aide aims to bolster the old ruling Baath party's appeal with Sunni Muslims fearing new reprisals by Shi'ite militias, experts said.
Ya Libnan
April 12, 2016
A rallying cry to Iraqi Sunnis from former President Saddam Hussein's top surviving aide aims to bolster the old ruling Baath party's appeal with Sunni Muslims fearing new reprisals by Shi'ite militias, experts said.
Firstpost
April 10, 2016
Douri, a wiry man with a ginger moustache, evaded capture during the 2003-11 U.S. occupation and Iraqi and U.S. officials accused him of organising an insurgency by minority Sunnis against U.S.
Huffington Post
April 1, 2016
David Kilcullen is a former Australian soldier turned advisor to the US government turned think tank director. He is the author of several fascinating books that have tracked the evolving nature of modern warfare and focused in particular onÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
April 1, 2016
David Kilcullen is a former Australian soldier turned advisor to the US government turned think tank director. He is the author of several fascinating books that have tracked the evolving nature of modern warfare and focused in particular onÃÂ ...
Truth-Out
March 27, 2016
A focus of the US "surge" in 2007 was working with Sunni militias to turn against this tide, but that strategy only lasted until the Iraqi state took control of the Sahwa program (Awakening Councils, or Sons of Iraq) as US troops withdrew and quickly ...
Task & Purpose
March 25, 2016
I was sitting down and meeting with staff officers with the Iraqi military, and one of them in particular sat there with me and said, "Michael, in the 70s, I did Ranger and pathfinder training in the United States.
Heavy.com
March 15, 2016
... allegedly conduct a surprise attack on "sahwat," or Sons of Iraq, members. The Sons of Iraq, also known as the National Council for the Awakening of Iraq, or the Sunni Awakening movement, was a 2007-2008 policy by former Iraqi President Nouri al ...
euronews
March 7, 2016
And who would be better to do that than the sons of Iraq and Syria? Critics may say that you can not force refugees to fight, but it would be ridiculous if we have to send European soldiers to fight ISIS, and more than a hundred thousand healthy young ...
The Conversation AU
March 2, 2016
Since announcing its arrival as a global force in June 2014 with the declaration of a caliphate on territory captured in Iraq and Syria, the jihadist group Islamic State has shocked the world with its brutality. Its seemingly .... The Sunni awakening ...
Task & Purpose
February 25, 2016
It paid off with the Sons of Iraq, but was rejected by Turkey in the build up to the invasion of Iraq. As a great power, the United States bears many responsibilities across the globe that smaller nations cannot fulfill.
Daily News
February 22, 2016
S. Army 1st Lt. Steve Smith talks on the radio near the scene of fighting between Iraqi security forces and renegade members of the Sons of Iraq in the Al-Fadhel neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, March 29, 2009. The 75th Ranger Regiment is America ...
TexasGOPVote
February 17, 2016
Much of the problem goes back to the close of the Iraq War and the transition from the Bush to Obama administrations. At the close of the war, Iraq had ... The Obama administration should have taken a Marshall Plan approach to working with the Al ...
Asia Times
February 16, 2016
David Petraeus, then the American commander in Iraq, handed hundreds of millions of dollars to the "Sunni Awakening" and the "Sons of Iraq," many of whose fighters later formed the core of ISIS. It is also true of American overt and covert support for ...
AlterNet
February 7, 2016
Iraqi Sunnis were already screwed over by the 'Sons of Iraq' program and are reluctant to take the lead again, because Bush hung them out to dry by agreeing to leave Iraq without making any provision for them. So it is nice that Rubio knows about Dabiq ...
Chicago Tribune
January 22, 2016
Carter said Sunni nations must do more to support the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria, offering his most direct public criticism of inaction by Gulf allies such as Saudi Arabia.
ISN
January 21, 2016
After the U.S.-led military intervention in Iraq in 2003, Iran hoped to check the U.S. military presence in Iraq as a whole by gaining influence in the predominantly Shi'a regions of the country, in large part through irregular warfare.
Pakistan Observer
January 11, 2016
By 2011, when the US troop withdrawal was complete, AQI (Al-Qaeda chapter of Iraq) was being run by Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi, and had morphed from a largely foreign to a largely Iraqi operation. The absence of foreigners made it easier for the Sons of ...
Middle East Monitor
January 11, 2016
On top of that there are dozens of Iraqi militias, each of which is affiliated with a different sect or tribe and, in turn, is fighting to gain control of this or that area.
Global Risk Insights
January 9, 2016
Maliki previously undermined any legitimacy that the government might have had among the Sunnis by failing to pay the Sons of Iraq (Sahwa) neighborhood watch force, and by reneging on promises to integrate them into the Iraqi security forces.
Al-Arabiya
January 8, 2016
The Iraqis from the Shiite sect are concerned over the Iranian influence in their country, not less than the sons of Iraq from Sunnis.
Mintpress News (blog)
January 5, 2016
LONDON - In 2014, George Galloway, at the time a Member of Parliament, warned the British government that intervention in Iraq and the Middle East would only lead to more terrorism and instability around the world. One year later, the world is reeling ...
gulfnews.com
January 4, 2016
"The Hashd are the sons of Iraq. Our role is to fight for the sake of Iraq," said Alaa al-Husseini, who comes from Najaf and wears a turban, signalling his role as a religious adviser to the fighters.
وكالة قاسيون للأنباء (تسجيل)
January 3, 2016
'The Elections in Iraq'. International Socialism Journal. Alexander, Anne, and Mostafa Bassiouny. 2014. Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers and the Egyptian Revolution. London: Zed Books. Al-Jabouri, Najim, and Sterling Jensen. 'The Iraqi and AQI Roles in the Sunni Awakening'. Prism 2 (1). Al-Rasheed, Madawi. 2010. A History of Saudi Arabia. 2nd ed. ... Opinion.http://online.wsj.com/articles/philip-dermer-the-sons-of-iraq-abandoned-.... Dodge, Toby. 2010. 'The Ideological Roots of Failure: The ...
Al-Arabiya
January 1, 2016
According to an opinion poll conducted by US Think Tank House Institution, the majority of the Shiite sect in Iraq is worried about the Iranian influence in their country, and reject Iraqi politicians linking the interests of their state with Iran, and ...
Stars and Stripes
December 30, 2015
A war seen by the United States as primarily aimed at preventing future terrorist attacks in America is being prosecuted for very different reasons by the diverse assortment of Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni fighters battling in both Iraq and Syria, often ...
