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Mada Masr
October 14, 2017
The centerpiece is a reimagining of the Victory Arch, a monument designed by Saddam to commemorate the Iran-Iraq War in Baghdad: Rakowitz copies the crossed bronze sabers of Saddam's massive triumphal arch with plastic lightsabers and GI Joe figurines entombed in clear resin. On the wall behind,ÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
August 2, 2017
On 22 May, Ahmed Mohsen, an unemployed taxi driver, left his house in the Islamic State-controlled western part of Mosul to try to escape across the Tigris to the government-held eastern side of the city. He and his mother, along with ten other people, carried rubber tyres down to the river: most of themÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
February 21, 2017
In 2005, McMaster's armored cavalry regiment deployed to Iraq at a moment when U.S. fatalities were climbing and Iraq was slipping into an all-out civil war. In Baghdad, senior commanders were telling their field commanders to consolidate U.S. forces on large secure bases, where they would be lessÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
January 25, 2017
The nadir of Western media coverage of the wars in Iraq and Syria has been the reporting of the siege of East Aleppo, which began in earnest in July and ended in December, when Syrian government forces took control of the last rebel-held areas and more than 100,000 civilians were evacuated. DuringÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
October 20, 2016
On 18th October 2016, the second day of the Mosul offensive, Patrick Cockburn discussed his latest book, The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East with the Guardian's Rachel Shabi. Since 2003, Cockburn has written extensively about the Middle East for the LRB; his 35th articleÃÂ ...
Newsweek
July 5, 2016
If the coalition against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), led by the United States, urges the Iraqi government to address the political war in Baghdad, it has a better chance of seeing a stronger government in Baghdad that is also able to consolidate and extend the military gains in Fallujah. The primeÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
May 25, 2016
In 1996 I visited Penjwin, an impoverished village in Iraqi Kurdistan close to the Iranian border, where people were trying to make a little money through what must be one of the most dangerous occupations in the world. They would walk through the extensive minefields around the village – laid during theÃÂ ...
The Independent
April 30, 2016
The Mahdi Army, that battled the US army in Najaf, later played a leading role in the sectarian war in Baghdad in 2006-7 in which tens of thousands died. Mr Sadr later disavowed many of his followers who carried out sectarian killings and retired to Iran to carry out religious studies. But on his return to Iraq,ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
January 16, 2016
Sweet would become a prisoner of war in Baghdad. Johnson himself would earn the Air Force Cross – the service's highest award for valor except for the Medal of Honor – for his own efforts while piloting his A-10 to protect a downed aviator during that war. “[Air Force Gen. Chuck Horner] had made theÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
June 24, 2015
On 16 June, Kurdish militiamen, with the support of US airstrikes, captured the town of Tal Abyad in northern Syria, a major crossing point on the Syrian-Turkish border. Its fall is damaging to Islamic State: it cuts the road linking the caliphate's unofficial Syrian capital at Raqqa, sixty miles to the south,ÃÂ ...
ITV News
January 21, 2015
Following his move to ITV network news in 1998 as Deputy News Editor, he has worked in the field across the world on a number of major breaking stories such as the second Gulf War, the Asian Tsunami, war in Kosovo, the civil war in Baghdad and earthquakes in India and Turkey. Next, Tim becameÃÂ ...
GigaOM
May 21, 2013
In hindsight, we were fighting the data war in Baghdad with fairly primitive tools. It was before the explosion of social media and the flowering of open-source data. In future battles, he said, governments will be using data not just to predict violence but to fight “the war of ideas.” Just what does that mean?
Stockton Record
May 25, 2009
Army reservist Tanisha Denise Manning, 29, has been serving as a mortuary affairs officer in Iraq for the past year. Manning spent her childhood years in south Stockton and east Oakland and graduated from Edison High School. Courtesy. By Keith ReidÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
December 6, 2017
Iraq has just had one of its least violent periods since the US invasion in 2003. Islamic State has been defeated: it lost its last town, Rawa, close to the Syrian border, on 17 November, and surviving IS fighters have retreated to hideouts in the western desert. In the past, IS would respond to military setbacksÃÂ ...
Mada Masr
October 14, 2017
The centerpiece is a reimagining of the Victory Arch, a monument designed by Saddam to commemorate the Iran-Iraq War in Baghdad: Rakowitz copies the crossed bronze sabers of Saddam's massive triumphal arch with plastic lightsabers and GI Joe figurines entombed in clear resin. On the wall behind,ÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
October 11, 2017
Shortly before the siege of Raqqa began in June, Islamic State officials arrested Hammad al-Sajer for skipping afternoon prayers. Hammad, who is 29, made a living from his motorbike: he carried people and packages, charging less than the local taxis. IS had arrested him a number of times before – mostlyÃÂ ...
Middle East Online
September 28, 2017
Hence, The largest wave of their immigration occurred in the wake of the civil war in Baghdad, 2006-2007. Since that time, many media sources declared that there are only a few hundreds of Kurdish families still living in Baghdad. The Kurdish political parties welcomed the new Kurdish arrivals fromÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
March 9, 2017
BAGHDAD — As elections draw closer, there's a tug of war in Baghdad over the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a mostly Shiite coalition of militias. Under a law passed in November but not implemented, the PMU was to become an official security body affiliated with the Iraqi armed forces. On one side ofÃÂ ...
News Deeply
March 1, 2017
It goes back to 2003 and 2004 in Baghdad, particularly the 2006-07 sectarian war in Baghdad, which ended with the Sunni really being confined to a limited number of enclaves. There are very few really mixed areas left. Now, you are having the same thing in northern Iraq and [the] Nineveh plain. AlthoughÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
February 21, 2017
In 2005, McMaster's armored cavalry regiment deployed to Iraq at a moment when U.S. fatalities were climbing and Iraq was slipping into an all-out civil war. In Baghdad, senior commanders were telling their field commanders to consolidate U.S. forces on large secure bases, where they would be lessÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
January 25, 2017
The nadir of Western media coverage of the wars in Iraq and Syria has been the reporting of the siege of East Aleppo, which began in earnest in July and ended in December, when Syrian government forces took control of the last rebel-held areas and more than 100,000 civilians were evacuated. DuringÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
October 20, 2016
On 18th October 2016, the second day of the Mosul offensive, Patrick Cockburn discussed his latest book, The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East with the Guardian's Rachel Shabi. Since 2003, Cockburn has written extensively about the Middle East for the LRB; his 35th articleÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
May 25, 2016
In 1996 I visited Penjwin, an impoverished village in Iraqi Kurdistan close to the Iranian border, where people were trying to make a little money through what must be one of the most dangerous occupations in the world. They would walk through the extensive minefields around the village – laid during theÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
January 16, 2016
Sweet would become a prisoner of war in Baghdad. Johnson himself would earn the Air Force Cross – the service's highest award for valor except for the Medal of Honor – for his own efforts while piloting his A-10 to protect a downed aviator during that war. “[Air Force Gen. Chuck Horner] had made theÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
October 28, 2015
The military balance of power in Syria and Iraq is changing. The Russian air strikes that have been taking place since the end of September are strengthening and raising the morale of the Syrian army, which earlier in the year looked fought out and was on the retreat. With the support of Russian airpower,ÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
June 24, 2015
On 16 June, Kurdish militiamen, with the support of US airstrikes, captured the town of Tal Abyad in northern Syria, a major crossing point on the Syrian-Turkish border. Its fall is damaging to Islamic State: it cuts the road linking the caliphate's unofficial Syrian capital at Raqqa, sixty miles to the south,ÃÂ ...
ITV News
January 21, 2015
Following his move to ITV network news in 1998 as Deputy News Editor, he has worked in the field across the world on a number of major breaking stories such as the second Gulf War, the Asian Tsunami, war in Kosovo, the civil war in Baghdad and earthquakes in India and Turkey. Next, Tim becameÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
December 10, 2014
The Islamic State is becoming even more repressive and violent as it comes under increased military pressure from its many enemies. It shows no mercy to those who resist its rule – such as the Albu Nimr tribe in western Iraq, 581 members of which Isis recently executed. This isn't random slaughter: IsisÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
August 5, 2014
As the attention of the world focused on Ukraine and Gaza, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) captured a third of Syria in addition to the quarter of Iraq it had seized in June. The frontiers of the new Caliphate declared by Isis on 29 June are expanding by the day and now cover an area larger than GreatÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
July 8, 2014
In early June, Abbas Saddam, a private soldier from a Shia district in Baghdad serving in the 11th Division of the Iraqi army, was transferred from Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province in western Iraq, to Mosul in the north. The fighting started not long after he got there. But on the morning of 10 June theÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
June 18, 2014
When I was covering the war in Baghdad several years ago, almost everyday an army recruitment center was car bombed, and I would see the torn bodies of young recruits in the aftermath. Even from the very beginning of the insurgency, the army was the main target. I saw how inhumanely Shiite soldiers treated SunniÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
May 12, 2014
With Kelly covering the war in Baghdad, your father's death and with the birth of your daughter, did you ever think, “It's time to go home”? At no point in those early years did I feel like we should leave. But then my dad dies, Loretta is born, Kelly gets the job in Baghdad and I move to Istanbul. At that point, myÃÂ ...
London Review of Books
October 3, 2013
The four wars fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria over the past 12 years have all involved overt or covert foreign intervention in deeply divided countries. In each case the involvement of the West exacerbated existing differences and pushed hostile parties towards civil war. In each country, all orÃÂ ...
GigaOM
May 21, 2013
In hindsight, we were fighting the data war in Baghdad with fairly primitive tools. It was before the explosion of social media and the flowering of open-source data. In future battles, he said, governments will be using data not just to predict violence but to fight “the war of ideas.” Just what does that mean?
Stockton Record
May 25, 2009
Army reservist Tanisha Denise Manning, 29, has been serving as a mortuary affairs officer in Iraq for the past year. Manning spent her childhood years in south Stockton and east Oakland and graduated from Edison High School. Courtesy. By Keith ReidÃÂ ...
Mada Masr
October 14, 2017
The centerpiece is a reimagining of the Victory Arch, a monument designed by Saddam to commemorate the Iran-Iraq War in Baghdad:Â ...
London Review of Books
October 11, 2017
Shortly before the siege of Raqqa began in June, Islamic State officials arrested Hammad al-Sajer for skipping afternoon prayers. Hammad ...
Middle East Online
September 28, 2017
Hence, The largest wave of their immigration occurred in the wake of the civil war in Baghdad, 2006-2007. Since that time, many media sources ...
London Review of Books
August 2, 2017
On 22 May, Ahmed Mohsen, an unemployed taxi driver, left his house in the Islamic State-controlled western part of Mosul to try to escape ...
WPLN
April 27, 2017
Peters grew up in a fundamentalist evangelical church in Pennsylvania, served as youth minister and then went to war in Baghdad as a ...
Al-Monitor
March 9, 2017
BAGHDAD — As elections draw closer, there's a tug of war in Baghdad over the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a mostly Shiite coalition of ...
Al-Monitor
March 9, 2017
BAGHDAD — As elections draw closer, there's a tug of war in Baghdad over the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a mostly Shiite coalition of ...
News Deeply
March 2, 2017
The number of Africans crossing the Americas to seek refuge in the U.S. grew tenfold last year. Now survivors of that long, expensive and ...
Chicago Tribune
February 21, 2017
... into an all-out civil war. In Baghdad, senior commanders were telling their field commanders to consolidate U.S. forces on large secure bases ...
The Independent
October 18, 2016
Mosul has been a dangerous place since the US-led invasion of 2003. It is the greatest Sunni Arab city of Iraq during an era in which the Sunni ...
Newsweek
July 5, 2016
... urges the Iraqi government to address the political war in Baghdad, it has a better chance of seeing a stronger government in Baghdad that is ...
London Review of Books
May 25, 2016
In 1996 I visited Penjwin, an impoverished village in Iraqi Kurdistan close to the Iranian border, where people were trying to make a little money ...
London Review of Books
February 24, 2016
The war in Syria and Iraq has produced two new de facto states in the last five years and enabled a third quasi-state greatly to expand its territory and power. The two new states, though unrecognised internationally, are stronger militarily and politically than most members of the UN. One is the Islamic State,ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
January 16, 2016
Sweet would become a prisoner of war in Baghdad. Johnson himself would earn the Air Force Cross – the service's highest award for valor ...
The Nation
December 16, 2015
BAGHDAD - US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter held talks in Baghdad Wednesday to review progress in the war against the Islamic State ...
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