updated Fri. March 1, 2024
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Newsweek
March 3, 2018
The U.S. worked closely with Syria to end the civil war in Lebanon in 1990 and in the initial stages of the Iraq War and so-called "War on Terror," but ... Fellow enemies of both Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Israel, they continued to forge ties into the new millennium and the Syrian government becameÃâà...
Rudaw
March 3, 2018
"Iraq has the right to own cutting-edge weapons to defend its territory and air space from air attacks," Iraqi MP Hakim Al-Zamili, who heads the Iraqi ... bombing of the Al-Askari mosque in Samarra in February 2006 that led to years of Sunni-Shiite violence which often has been described as a civil war.
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 .... Iran is (with Russia) the main ally of Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime in his civil war, sponsors terror groups Hezbollah and Hamas in Lebanon andÃâà...
The New Arab
March 1, 2018
The Iraqi government has done little to reduce tensions in formerly IS-held territory, instead preferring a strategy of inflicting 'public justice' on alleged ... of abductions and kidnappings, crimes reminiscent of the worst of the sectarian bloodletting that left Iraq on the cusp of civil war between 2006 and 2009.
Vox
February 28, 2018
“Siege, starve, and surrender”: inside the next phase of the Syrian civil war .... At the time, it was one of the biggest and most horrific attacks in the civil war. Since then, Assad ... But two years later, the US-led anti-ISIS coalition effectively defeated the terrorist group's so-called caliphate in Syria (and Iraq).
Brookings Institution (blog)
February 28, 2018
Afghanistan, Algeria, Chechnya, Iraq, Lebanon Somalia, and Yemen are examples of other conflicts that have birthed new terrorist groups or allowed existing ones to get stronger. The wars provide a cause for recruiting, and they make the (surviving) members deadlier by giving them hard-won combatÃâà...
USNI News
February 28, 2018
As the Islamic State's hold on territory in Syria and Iraq is collapsing, the civil war continues. ... Working with the Iraqi government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, a mixture primarily of Kurdish and Arab fighters, this cooperation “makes it difficult to carry out their activities” of supplying supporters, movingÃâà...
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 ... In Syria, the civil war has become the occasion for a regional and global struggle involving multiple conflicts: Saudi Arabia versus Iran, Turkey versus theÃâà...
Newsweek
February 15, 2018
That's why Iran told its Iraqi Shi'a allies to participate in the American reconstruction and democratization of Iraq in 2003–2005, why it only began attacking Americans in Iraq when it realized that US mistakes were driving Iraq into chaos and civil war, why Iran was the most important voice trying to restrainÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
December 31, 1999
Afghanistan, Algeria, Chechnya, Iraq, Lebanon Somalia, and Yemen are examples of other conflicts that have birthed new terrorist groups or allowed existing ones to get stronger. The wars provide a cause for recruiting, and they make the (surviving) members deadlier by giving them hard-won combatÃâà...
