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Iraq: The Wars Grind Down
Strategy Page· 18 hours agoSeptember 19, 2017: The many wars in Iraq are ending, or so it is hoped. This was a remarkably destructive, and avoidable, catastrophe that began in 1980 when Saddam Hussein ...
Iraq: Old City Turns Red And Dead
Strategy Page· 3 days agoJune 19, 2017: In the north government forces have reduced ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) controlled territory to one crowded neighborhood in the “old city” district ...
Opinion: Get US troops out of harm’s way, now
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 days agoISIS has no friends on the ground and a lot of enemies; Turkey, Russia, Assad and Iraq all have a self-interest in ensuring ISIS doesn’t regenerate. And...
Have Israel and the United States Done Enough to Deter Iran?
Foreign Policy Magazine· 41 minutes agoNow we’re looking at the prospect of a regionwide war, kicked off by Iran and Israel. Or still time...
ISIS destroyed his instruments. He made a new one from scraps and composed an album
NPR· 3 days ago"I was a student and the economic situation [in Iraq was] really bad, and I had to save every single...
Who’s running in Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District?
WHTM via Yahoo News· 4 days ago(WHTM) – Several Democrats have announced or are planning to get in the 2024 race for Pennsylvania’s...
What if Putin Doesn’t Want Peace?
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 7 days agoPhoto Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyAs the Ukraine war rages for a third year, with casualties well into the hundreds of...
Former Abu Ghraib prisoner testifies about abuses as trial against U.S. military contractor begins
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThree former Iraqi detainees, who described being tortured by U.S. military police at Abu Ghraib...
ISIS 'will attack Britain in MONTHS' as MI5 'prepares to raise threat level'
The US Sun· 5 days agoLONE "gangster jihadis" could attack the UK this summer as Britain is expected to up its threat...
David Cay Johnston, DCReport
The Raw Story· 3 days agoThe bigger issue is that there is no way to stop a nuclear power from invading a non-nuclear power, as America did 18 years ago this month when it took...