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And yes, the fall of Kobani would be a bad thing. A very bad thing, because IS is something unusual: A demonized group that really is as demonic as the mainstream media makes it out to be. Not as powerful, not as important, but every bit as demonic.
After 13 years of war in Afghanistan – the longest in US history – the US government has achieved no victory. Afghanistan is in chaos and would collapse completely without regular infusions of US money. The war has been a failure, but Washington
The US sent helicopters into combat against Islamic State targets west of Baghdad, the first time low-flying Army aircraft have been committed to fighting in an engagement that the Obama administration officials has promised would not include "boot
No sign of the Iraq army being able to make a successful counter-attack, and US air strikes are making little difference.
Just consider that for a moment: we have been in Iraq so long that we now have an aircraft carrier named after the president who launched the adventure - USS George H.W. Bush.
A few months ago, not many Americans, in fact Europeans as well, knew that a Yazidi sect in fact existed in northwest Iraq.
Kerry said the US would commit its own ground forces to fight IS if "something very, very dramatic changes." This shows that Iraq is something of a province or a US protectorate, so satrap is more accurate for Iraq's new leader.
The following is from STRATFOR, the leading think tank on geopolitics. Unfortunately, it is beyond the ken and attention span of the American masses and, even sadder, their political and media puppeteers, who seem to think that we're still in the Wo
Iraq's parliament was to meet Monday under pressure to approve an inclusive government to win broad support against jihadists, as President Barack Obama prepares to unveil a strategy to defeat them.
The Pentagon is denying that U.S. troops are fighting ISIS on the ground in Iraq?but eyewitness accounts and Kurdish officials tell a different story.
I would add to the following that our de-Baathization of Iraq after our invasion also helped to create ISIS and the inevitable civil war in Iraq--and also the emboldening of Iran.
What better confirmation of the manifest failure of the philosophy of foreign interventionism than the renewed U.S. bombing of Iraq?
As Iraq faces a governmental crisis and collapses into what looks to be a three-sided civil war, Republicans even other Democrats -- members of Congress and potential presidential candidates, such as President Obama's former Secretary of State Hillar
The radical Islamic State that seized a swath of western and central Iraq last month effectively left the nation in three pieces, government officials and analysts say. The United States worries that a fractured Iraq could lead to a failed state, al
We have been at war with Iraq for 24 years, starting with Operations Desert Shield and Storm in 1990.
Let's count the ways. It goes without saying that Obama is now busily bombing American military equipment. Some of that equipment is pretty high tech gear and especially lethal?not the kind that jihadists ordinarily train with in their desert lairs o
The United States on Saturday conducted air strikes in Iraq against Islamic State fighters near the Kurdish capital of Arbil and the Mosul dam, the U.S. Central Command said.
Britain should use its military prowess to tackle Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday, saying they had to be stopped from creating "a terrorist state on the shores of the Mediterranean".
Last week, we were told there were 40,000 Yazidis on Sinjar Mountain facing starvation if they remained there, and slaughter by ISIS if they came down.
Anbar Governor Confirms Deal for US Presence 'Very Soon'.
Fear of Changing Balance on the Ground Prevented Arms Before.
The Iraq War Officially Begins (Again): US Troops Prepare For Rollout As US Drones Strike ISIS Positions
Let's count the ways. It goes without saying that Obama is now busily bombing American military equipment.
Fearing a genocide of Christians, the Vatican has given its approval to US military air strikes in Iraq -- a rare exception to its policy of peaceful conflict resolution.
Iraq
In the Middle East, the first shots of every war define the narrative we all dutifully follow. So too, this greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis in Iraq.
Coalition of Shia parties nominate Haider al-Abadi to replace defiant Maliki as prime minister in bid to end Baghdad deadlock
What else is there to add here, it is simple really: if need i) distraction from domestic scandal, ii) a ready source of emergency offshore oil or pushing US E&P companies to drill , or iii) a script for a Hollywood movie provisionally titled "Wag th
The US has reportedly started direct arms supplies to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Iraq to help them battle the Islamic State militants.
Two reasons: The Kurds ? and the Israelis
