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Iraqi News
April 2, 2018
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014. The surge in violence between armed groups and government forces has resulted in over 3 million internally displaced persons across Iraq andÃâà...
Gallup
March 30, 2018
Bush's declines were less pronounced -- between one and 12 points -- likely reflecting the surge in support for him that occurred six months earlier, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Like Trump, Bush's best second-year rating of the three issues was on the economy, while Obama's highest rating was forÃâà...
The American Conservative
March 29, 2018
With the nomination of John Bolton, Never Trump interventionists have installed one of the unrepentant architects of the catastrophic Iraq War to head the ... Last summer, in one of the strangest speeches in American history, President Trump announced he would surge troop levels in Afghanistan—and thenÃâà...
UT News | The University of Texas at Austin
March 22, 2018
The war in Iraq only stabilized when the United States used more diplomacy. During the “Surge” American forces left their bases to interact more directly with civilians and local leaders. They negotiated agreements to cooperate on apprehending terrorists and sought assistance from foreign allies andÃâà...
Socialist Worker Online
March 20, 2018
Bush balked at these recommendations and instead opted for the much-hyped "surge" of combat troops to Iraq. He appointed Gen. David Petraeus, the advocate of counter-insurgency as a strategy to defeat the resistance, to lead the operation. Petraeus argued that the U.S. had to deploy more U.S. troopsÃâà...
Task & Purpose
March 16, 2018
Seeing all this chaos prompts many Iraq veterans to wonder: Was what they fought for worth the sacrifices they made? We posed that question to the Iraq War's most influential figure, retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, who led U.S. forces in Iraq during the 2007-2008 surge in an attempt to stop aÃâà...
The Guardian
March 12, 2018
A surge in support for minor political parties since 2004 is attributable more to a collapse in trust in government and rising cultural anxiety in the regions than economic insecurity, according to new research by ... Addressing the growing perception of a divide between the city and the bush is also important.
Knoxville News Sentinel
March 8, 2018
He grew up in Anderson County amid news reports of the fighting half a world away ? Iraq's election of 2005, the suicide bombings, the surge of 2007 under Gen. David Petraeus. None of that news, good or bad, kept him from enlisting in June last year after graduation from Anderson County High School.
NPR
March 6, 2018
A political scion with a familiar name overcame a primary challenge on Tuesday — yet another George Bush, this one George P., son of none other than Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and 2016 presidential candidate. Despite Jeb Bush's feuds with President Trump, Trump endorsed George P. BushÃâà...
Politico
March 6, 2018
While Bush's first war zone visit was to Iraq in November 2003, he held off on visiting Afghanistan until March 2006, well into his second term and after American troops had been fighting in the country for over four years. For Bush, the deterioration of security in Iraq during his second term, and the surge heÃâà...
Modern Diplomacy
December 31, 1999
March 20 went by nearly unnoticed. It was the 15th anniversary of the Iraq war. Exactly one week earlier seven marines lost their lives in western Iraq in what was reported as a helicopter crash. The war has not ended. The flattening of cities to recapture them from ISIS also flattens civilians. How many deadÃâà...
