updated Mon. March 12, 2018
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Al-Arabiya
March 11, 2018
With US troops involved only in an advisory capacity, rather than having serious boots on the ground, Soleimani seized the opportunity to gain a foothold in Iraq. With the Quds Force and its proxy Hezbollah, fighting alongside other Iranian-backed foreign mercenaries, they became heavily involved inÃÂ ...
International Policy Digest
March 8, 2018
ISIS catapulted the conflict to a global issue when it expanded the war beyond the borders of Syria invading Iraq and nearly routing the Iraqi Army. With the ... The February 7 engagement between U.S. and SDF forces against Pro-Assad forces and Russian mercenaries is a clear warning of things to come.
Task & Purpose
March 2, 2018
The Hill
February 28, 2018
BBC News
February 23, 2018
Los Angeles Times
February 18, 2018
Russia's shadowy world of military contractors: independent mercenaries, or working for the Kremlin? .... In addition, the Fontanka investigation and other Russian researchers have found evidence that the mercenary groups have a "boot camp" in Russia's southern Krasnodar region at a facility owned andÃÂ ...
Mintpress News
February 16, 2018
CBS News
February 14, 2018
Business Insider
February 13, 2018
More than 100 Russian mercenaries reportedly died when trying to attack a US-backed Kurdish position after US personnel called in airstrikes. The attackers ... The US employed mercenaries during its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their deaths were not reported in official counts. The US continues toÃÂ ...
Irish Examiner
December 31, 1999
Similarly, in Syria, mercenaries enable the Kremlin to downplay Russia's involvement, as well as its losses, which many observers predicted would be staggeringly high. Putin doesn't want to be accused of repeating the disastrous Afghan War of 1979-1989, which contributed to the Soviet Union's collapse.
New York Magazine
December 31, 1999
In the other letter, Mary K. Waters, the assistant secretary of State for legislative affairs, argues that the U.S. has the right to use force in Iraq by the consent of the Iraqi government, whereas in Syria, it is acting "in the collective self-defense of Iraq (and other States) and in U.S. national self-defense." TheseÃÂ ...
Screen Rant
February 17, 2018
He joined the U.S. military and fought in Iraq and Afganistan, earning the nickname "Killmonger" because of the extraordinary number of confirmed kills he racked up. He then joined JSOC as a black ops soldier, before eventually becoming a mercenary. He carries out a heist job with Klaue, stealing a lumpÃÂ ...
SAMAA TV News Pakistan (blog)
February 16, 2018
gulfnews.com
February 16, 2018
Mintpress News
February 16, 2018
New York Times
February 14, 2018
CBS News
February 14, 2018
CBS News
February 8, 2018
"Pro-regime" forces that attacked a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) headquarters in northeastern Syria -- and were hit in return by U.S. airstrikes -- included Russian mercenaries, according to a Pentagon official. If Russians are among those who were killed, this would mark the first time a U.S. airstrike hasÃÂ ...
International Business Times, India Edition
February 6, 2018
You might have heard about the plights of Yezidi tribe, the Iraqi religious and ethnic minority after the Islamic State (ISIS) invaded their areas. Trapped by the ISIS mercenaries, the members of the ethnic group were subjected to mindless cruelties. The wrath of ISIS still continues on the Yezidis. An IraqiÃÂ ...
Rudaw
February 3, 2018
If a single Kurdish state existed, even in Alaska, there would have been an ally for the Kurds in Iraq following their September 25 referendum on independence. Now no one but the Kurds is questioning Iraqi Prime Minister Abadi as he punishes them with embargos, airport closures and unilateral fiatsÃÂ ...
New Republic
January 20, 2018
"The good" can also be said to include what didn't happen--dangerous policies that Trump threatened to put in place but ultimately thought better of, such as reinstating torture, stealing Iraq's oil, introducing a blanket terrorist designation for the Muslim Brotherhood, or unleashing a private mercenary armyÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 19, 2018
The affiliates - once known as "governorates of the caliphate" - may also offer a safe haven to fighters fleeing Iraq and Syria, officials fear. ... at some point the pool of money is likely to run out … and for those jihadis who are committed but mercenary nonetheless … then the relationship is likely to break.".
Newsweek
January 18, 2018
Since then, mercenaries have become "a central element of the Kremlin's geopolitical adventures, whether in Ukraine or, even more clearly, Syria," says ... the U.S. military contractor that provided tens of thousands of private security guards during the second Iraq war, Utkin has become a key player in hisÃÂ ...
BBC News
January 17, 2018
The National
January 16, 2018
Mr Rashid said Afrin had "for years now been under a systematic siege posed by mercenary groups supported by the Turkish occupation". ... While the US military has said it will continue to provide support to the SDF with a focus on securing Syria's border with Iraq, Afrin is cut off from the majority of theÃÂ ...
ANI News
January 9, 2018
The country has deployed Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces and Afghan mercenaries in order to stem the anti-government protests. The authorities have blocked two popular social media apps- Telegram and Instagram, as a security measure. Also, three protesters were reportedly shot dead by the IslamicÃÂ ...
The Asian Age
January 8, 2018
The country has deployed Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces and Afghan mercenaries in order to stem the anti-government protests. The authorities have blocked two popular social media apps- Telegram and Instagram, as a security measure. Also, three protesters were reportedly shot dead by the IslamicÃÂ ...
Arab News
January 8, 2018
analyst Matiullah Kharoti said that Iran had used Afghan refugees to fight in its war against Iraq in the 1980s and in its current conflict in the Middle East by offering them incentives. "They are not fighting a sectarian war in the Middle East, but Iran is exploiting their desperation and poverty," Kharoti told ArabÃÂ ...
Iran News Update
January 2, 2018
Slate Magazine
January 2, 2018
Isaac Chotiner: In the past 15 years, there have been a number of events that have all been analyzed through the prism of a rising Iran--the American invasion of Iraq, the nuclear deal with Iran, the near-victory of Iran's ally Bashar Assad in the Syrian civil war. Have you thought of Iran as rising, and has theÃÂ ...
The Herald
January 2, 2018
In other words, the US-led forces planned for their Mercenaries to supplant Assad in Damascus. This revelation seems to support the Russian Defence Ministry's claim the US-backed forces in September were facilitating the safe retreat of ISIS fighters out of Iraq and into Syria. "The US-led coalition, which isÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
December 30, 2017
A SECRETIVE Russian mercenary group are believed to have fought alongside the regular troops in Syria, allowing Moscow to reduce the number of ... Between 1,500 and 2,000 Mercenaries, about half the size of Russia's official military contingent in Syria, are thought to have been inside the middleÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
December 12, 2017
Daily Sabah
December 11, 2017
Senior SDF members met with Iraqi military leaders and "discussed protecting the Syrian- Iraqi border in the region adjacent to Deir ez-Zor province, and how to finally eradicate Daesh mercenaries there," the SDF said in a statement. "The two sides decided to form a joint coordination center to guaranteeÃÂ ...
Financial Tribune
December 10, 2017
The mercenary company rose to prominence after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Blackwater won hundreds of millions of dollars of US government contracts in the wars, but the company became associated with some of the most notorious episodes of theÃÂ ...
The Intercept
December 4, 2017
The intelligence and covert action program would mark an unorthodox return to government service for Prince, the onetime CIA contractor who built a mercenary force that became notorious during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would also raise new questions about Prince's foreign entanglementsÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
October 23, 2017
As part of an American effort to promote economic development in Iraq and secure influence in the country after the fight against the Islamic State subsides, the American government has helped broker a deal between Iraq and Olive Group, a private security company, to establish and secure the country'sÃÂ ...
Albany Times Union
December 31, 1999
Mintpress News (blog)
December 31, 1999
An ISIS convoy prepares for an attack on Iraqi military positions in Nineveh in Northeastern Iraq. (Chris Tomson/AMN) .... According to one estimate, the motley crew of Mercenaries was generating profits of more than ã320million a year from oil exports, or about 40,000 barrels of crude every single day.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
More than 30 alleged militants who were pardoned by Tajik authorities after returning home from Iraq and Syria have gone back to the region to rejoin the extremist group Islamic ... More than half of those who returned to Tajikistan have been pardoned, while others were convicted of being Mercenaries.
NationofChange
December 31, 1999
WHYY
December 31, 1999
A House committee was conducting a probe of Blackwater, the mercenary group that had killed unarmed civilians in Iraq. Issa, a Republican member of the committee, wanted everyone to know that even though Blackwater had profited greatly from the Iraq war (its mercenaries were paid a lot more thanÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
December 31, 1999
Some fighters are purely mercenaries motivated by money, and some are enticed by promises of legal residency status and residency permits for their families back in Iran. Others are induced by the honorific "defenders of the shrine," believing it is a religious duty to protect holy Shia shrines in Syria,ÃÂ ...
Antiwar.com (blog)
December 31, 1999
al-Qaeda in Iraq was predictable blowback, resistance against a US illegal invasion. Bush who admitted that he creates his own reality, had hallucinations of a grateful Iraqi people, who had just been bombed back to the Stone Age with shock and awe, throwing kisses and flowers at the US expeditionaryÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
December 31, 1999
Sources in Ahwaz told Al Arabiya.net that Iran has deployed members of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization forces to suppress the ongoing anti-regime protests. According to sources, they have been deployed alongside Iran's Revolutionary Guards and security forces in the streets of Abadan and KhorramshahrÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 31, 1999
Variety
November 22, 2017
Travis Conrad (Hawke) is a former elite soldier-turned-murky mercenary who's spent years taking out presumed evildoers as a privateÃÂ ...
HuffPost
November 21, 2017
JerusalemOnline
November 15, 2017
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