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RT
April 29, 2018
Unexploded IEDs & white phosphorus: 15 years after US troops came, war still everywhere in Fallujah ... Ruptly traveled to Fallujah, a city that has become synonymous with every upheaval that has struck Iraq since 2003, to find a populace psychologically and physically scarred by the fallout from theÃâà...
The National
April 29, 2018
A ransom deal involving Qatar, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria could end up having implications for Washington, after it was reported that huge sums of cash went ... “It's important to remember that the group targeted US forces during the Iraq war with advanced weapons, continues to threaten US interests, hasÃâà...
Longview News-Journal
April 29, 2018
Before his new position, before his previous one as hospitalist at Northwest, before the home in La Paloma, and the internal medicine program at Texas Tech, Aldeen wasn't sure he would see tomorrow in war-torn Iraq. Insurgents would kill him, maybe kidnap Nibras, just as they had done to his friends.
HuffPost
April 27, 2018
The banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln read “Mission Accomplished.” President George W. Bush grinned and gave a boastful thumbs-up before reading from his teleprompter about America's victory in Iraq. Fifteen years later, Mission Accomplished has become Mission Impossible. And as IslamophobicÃâà...
Newsweek
April 26, 2018
Iraq sent F-16s to launch a surprise attack on a suspected ISIS stronghold in eastern Syria on Thursday, an operation in which both the Moscow-backed Syrian government and U.S.-led coalition signed off. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told reporters Tuesday that the strike killed a number of theÃâà...
Newsweek
April 13, 2018
The U.S. then invaded Iraq in 2003, accusing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of hiding weapons of mass destruction, a claim discovered to be false after the ... in other regions across Asia and Africa, ISIS has mostly been defeated due to military campaigns backed by a U.S.-led coalition, Iran and Russia.
Deutsche Welle
April 10, 2018
Read more: War-torn Iraq seeks help from abroad to rebuild ... There is a second picture associated with the Iraq War that is also ingrained in our collective memory: US Secretary of State Colin Powell giving his ... In 1999 the Iraqi chemist Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi came to Germany as a refugee.
Project Syndicate
April 6, 2018
It is unlikely that former US President George W. Bush or any member of his administration will ever stand trial for initiating a war of aggression in Iraq. ... anniversary of the US-led war against Iraq with a poignant column by Sinan Antoon, an Iraqi novelist living in the United States, entitled “Fifteen YearsÃâà...
The Guardian
March 29, 2018
This month marks 15 years since the US-led invasion of Iraq. With all the talk of 'totalitarianism' in the Trump era, let's not forget ... But if there was a “totalitarian” moment in my lifetime, it is unquestionably the period between 9/11 and the Iraq war. It's not simply that war criminals enlisted the aid of the pressÃâà...
RT
March 29, 2018
... two decades ago. “What are the biggest threats to UK security? The biggest threats to the British public have been the threat of Islamist attacks. We saw only last May the appalling Manchester Arena bombings, the Westminster attack – so it's clear that the biggest threat to us in Britain is of jihadist attack.
Antiwar.com
March 29, 2018
With the last of the ISIS-held territory in Iraq recaptured, Iraqi officials are cheerfully proclaiming the war is over. Pentagon's commanders, who ... up the Iraqi military, of course. The US has already given Iraq an entire military's worth of gear before, much of which was looted and lost in the ISIS fighting.
Newsweek
March 29, 2018
ISIS formed out of a merger of jihadi groups, including Al-Qaeda in Iraq, in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion and overthrow of Iraqi President Saddam ... With ISIS mostly defeated in Syria, thanks to campaigns by the U.S.-led coalition and its Syrian Democratic Forces allies, as well as the Syrian militaryÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 28, 2018
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Iraq wants to "keep away" from the US Iran conflict and will not be involved. Baghdad wants to maintain a "balance" in its ... "I'm keeping away from it," he said, referring to the tension between Iran and the United States. Abadi also expressed hope that the deal toÃâà...
MyAJC
March 28, 2018
So 15 years ago this week, the United States careered into one of the most cataclysmic, expensive and idiotic blunders of the past half-century: We invaded Iraq. The financial cost alone to the United States will top $3 trillion, according to the estimates of the economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes,Ãâà...
Project Syndicate
March 22, 2018
In the 15 years since former US President George Bush launched the Iraq War, the Middle East has been wracked by turmoil, and America's standing as .... Nouri al-Maliki, was re-elected, though his State of Law Coalition had won fewer seats than the more moderate Iraqi National Movement, led by AyadÃâà...
HuffPost
March 20, 2018
The U.S. intervention in the Iraq War brought an end to decades of rule by Saddam Hussein that deprived Iraqis of basic rights and subjected many of them to unimaginable suffering. But U.S. policy also emboldened scores of unaccountable militias, worsened the ethnic, sectarian and social fissures theÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 20, 2018
U.S. war planners had hoped a campaign of “shock and awe” would expedite the conflict, demoralize the Iraqi forces, and speed up their surrender. While the initial overthrow of Saddam Hussein was relatively quick, the Iraq War itself was anything but. For nearly nine years, occupying coalition troops triedÃâà...
VICE News
March 16, 2018
The U.S. is officially fighting wars in seven countries, including Libya and Niger, according to an unclassified White House report sent to Congress this week and obtained by the New York Times. Known officially as the “Report on the Legal and Policy Frameworks Guiding the United States' Military ForceÃâà...
Newsweek
March 16, 2018
An investigation will be initiated to determine the cause of the incident," the U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in Iraq and ... The U.S. has been active in Iraq since invading the country in 2003 to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. ... Institute for the Study of War/Reuters.
The Hill
March 16, 2018
It's hard to believe that March 20 marks 15 years since the United States invaded Iraq, catalyzing a conflict that has redefined U.S. foreign policy and transformed the geopolitics in the Middle East region. Today, nearly seven years since the official end of the Iraq war, the number of U.S. military personnelÃâà...
Daily Bruin
March 16, 2018
If you've ever felt stupid, look on the bright side: At least you haven't poured wine onto roads over the French not supporting the Iraq War. March 19 will mark 15 years since the U.S., along with its coalition forces, began its war on Iraq. Anti-war protests were widespread in the lead up to the invasion, butÃâà...
Green Bay Press Gazette
March 16, 2018
There is a wide range of estimates of the Iraqi dead — between 150,000 and 460,000 people. Through 2014, the war had cost about $815 billion, according to Congressional Research Service. It also impacted the lives of those sent to fight. Laura Colbert spent more than a year in Iraq with a WisconsinÃâà...
Common Dreams
March 16, 2018
March 19 marks 15 years since the U.S.-U.K invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the American people have no idea of the enormity of the calamity the invasion unleashed. The US military has refused to keep a tally of Iraqi deaths. General Tommy Franks, the man in charge of the initial invasion, bluntly toldÃâà...
Antiwar.com (blog)
March 15, 2018
There was a lot of stuff about the nuts and bolts of al-Qaeda's supposed relationship with the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The intelligence community was lapping this up, and so was the administration, obviously. Abu Zubaydah was saying Iraq and al-Qaeda had an operational relationship. It was everythingÃâà...
The Hill
March 14, 2018
While none of our current wars are running up the kinds of costs incurred at the peak of U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, when the United States had well over 200,000 “boots on the ground,” they are costly nonetheless. Our perpetual wars have provided a handy rationale for the Pentagon toÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 2, 2018
The Gulf War, codenamed Desert Storm, ended on February 28 1991 with the overwhelming victory of a coalition of states, spearheaded by the United States, against Iraq. In a Blitzkrieg-like ground assault, preceded by an extensive aerial bombing campaign, the United States and its allies expelled IraqiÃâà...
The Australian Financial Review
March 2, 2018
Fleeing civilians walking past the heavily damaged al-Nuri mosque as Iraqi forces continued their advance against Islamic State militants in the old city of .... NSW Liberal Senator Jim Molan, who had a 12-month stint as chief of operations for 300,000 coalition troops during the Iraq War in 2004, is mindful ofÃâà...
The Sun
March 2, 2018
Abbas, one of the most severely injured victims of the Iraq war, was not expected to see his 13th birthday. But 15 years after the horrific attacks, he is now the proud father of baby Yusuf, born on January 23 at a central Baghdad hospital. Abbas, now 27-years-old, told Mirror Online: "In my darkest moments IÃâà...
The Sun
March 2, 2018
However, at the weekend Kim accused the US and Japan of bringing "the raging wind of war" to the peninsula while warning Donald Trump to think twice ... State-approved North Korean media said its crackpot leader will not put up with increased maritime blockades by the United States and its allies.
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 2, 2018
The U.S. company that repairs Iraq's American-made M1A1 Abrams tanks has pulled many of its people from Iraq after at least nine of the armored ... State alongside the Iraqi army, according to a quarterly report from the inspector general for the U.S. war efforts in Iraq and Syria, released in February.
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
March 2, 2018
Marlon's Father, sponsored by his brother, immigrated to the United States in 1977 and Marlon's mother soon followed her husband. Marlon and his sister then lived with his grandparents until he was 10 years of age when they joined their parents in 1983 and they lived in Los Angeles' Korea Town with anÃâà...
RT
March 1, 2018
Much has been said in recent years about soaring US debt and Washington's huge military expenditure overseas. American household ... American students owe the US government more than the estimated $1.3 trillion in direct costs that Washington incurred fighting the war in Iraq. Student loans make upÃâà...
The Nation.
February 22, 2018
We need to remember that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, perhaps over 1 million, died in the US war and occupation—and that doesn't even count ... Saudi Arabia versus Iran, Turkey versus the Kurds, the United States versus Russia, Israel versus Iran, the United States versus Turkey, and more.
NPR
December 31, 1999
And yes, many of the leaders of ISIS today were individuals who were detained in U.S. facilities. But if you do a study - if you look at key ISIS leaders, you'll find that many of that generation of them were detained in facilities, not just by the United States but by Iraqi police forces who are empowered by U.S.Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Fifteen years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the consequences of the subsequent war continue to be debated. According to the UN refugee agency, more than four million people have been displaced. There is no widely accepted figure for civilian deaths, but estimates run from the hundreds of thousandsÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
After serving as an important resource for American troops, Egal fled to the United States for safety. Many Iraqi doctors known to have helped Americans were often at risk during the war. A translator told Egal that Egal's name was at the top of a local militia's hit list in 2007. He left Iraq that same year.
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