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Iraq: Rotten At The Top
Strategy Page· 8 hours agoThe agreement does not mean a reduction of the 2,500 American forces still in Iraq. Hours after the agreement was signed and announced, the Iranian Quds commander made a well-publicized ...
Iran—Iraq’s Unavoidable Neighbor and America’s Bitter Pill
The National Interest· 16 hours agoOne of the most ironic and adverse strategic outcomes of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was the...
Iraqis Flock To River Or Ice Rink To Escape Searing Heat
International Business Times· 2 days agoIn the sizzling Baghdad heat, Mussa Abdallah takes to the Tigris river during the day to cool off,...
Iraq militias target KFC, other U.S. businesses to protest Gaza war
Washington Post· 6 days agoThe elite Iraqi counterterrorism force that helped vanquish the Islamic State is back patrolling the...
Top U.S. General in Iraq looks back on the legacy and lessons of the attack on 'Tower 22'
Task & Purpose· 16 hours agoThe pictures of three Army Reserve soldiers killed in a January drone attack on a U.S. base in...
Iraq: Bad Habits
Strategy Page· 4 days agoSeptember 8, 2020: The new prime minister (Mustafa al Kadhimi) is decidedly hostile to Iran. Such a meeting was important because Kadhimi is the first post-Saddam (2003) prime minister that ...
Beware of entrapment on rainbow road | PHIL WILLIAMS
The Gadsden Times via Yahoo News· 4 days agoYears ago, In Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a government building in Baghdad had an American flag painted on the floor so that people would have to walk on it...
Blind footballer brings game to visually impaired Iraqis
AFP via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoWhen football fanatic Othman al-Kinani became blind in 2008, the loss of his sight hit him hard, not...
U.S. Fines Emirates $1.8M For Iraq Overflight
Aviation Week· 5 days agoDubai-based Emirates has agreed to pay a $1.8 million settlement for operating JetBlue codeshare flights through Iraqi airspace at a flight level that was not approved by the U.S. FAA. Emirates ...
Patinkin: Right up to the end, Tom Mulligan kept on living. It's the only way he knew how.
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 6 days agoLet me explain it with an anecdote. In 2004, Tom was stationed by the L.A. Times in Baghdad to write...