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The United States first used depleted uranium (DU) ammunition against Iraq during the Gulf War of 1990-1991, and then again during the 2003 invasion.
Fears of Iranian revenge after top nuclear scientist assassinated...
--administration taking numbers in each one-time warzone to just 2,500
ANALYSIS/OPINION: At a recent town hall event, President Trump said he planned to withdraw American troops from Iraq.
Protests in Iraq -- Long-suffering Iraqis have legitimate grievances in the post-Saddam Hussein era.
On October 22, 2010, WikiLeaks published the Iraq War Logs, a colossal compendium of nearly 400,000 classified U.S. Army field reports revealing what founder Julian Assange called "intimate details" of the war
Iraq
Four days ago, Donald Trump said the U.S. isn't involved in the Middle East for oil, but because we "want to protect Israel." The comments have gone all but unreported in the mainstream press.
Rumors seemed to fly all day Sunday on Mideast social media channels based on unnamed US sources that a major attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone was imminent.
Prolonging U.S. military intervention is making it more difficult for Iraq to achieve stability and sapping American defense resources.
Earlier this month, while meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister, President Trump reaffirmed his intent to remove all US troops from Iraq. "We were there and now we're getting out. We'll be leaving shortly," the president told reporters at the
This would bring numbers down from 5,200 to about 3,500 according to Pentagon officials. Trump is in the meantime expected to tout an Iraq withdrawal as a success in ending the wasteful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Iraq -- The US intends permanent direct and/or proxy occupation of every nation it preemptively attacked since the 1990s rape of Yugoslavia.
President Trump has again vowed that all US troops will soon be out of America's second longest occupation in Iraq (behind the longest running war in Afghanistan).
What was once an autocracy has become a kleptocracy, a 'giant graft scheme' with protesters ever in the streets.
Brent Scowcroft badly served his friend George H. W. Bush on Iraq by not doing all he could to stop Bush's son from committing a war of aggression, writes Ray McGovern, who used to brief H.W.
Three decades ago Iraq's Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait. It was no contest. Hussein was vastly more ruthless than Kuwait's emir. Iraq's military was significantly larger than Kuwait's armed forces. Hussein declared his conquest to
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) have written a joint letter to President Donald Trump calling on him to immediately withdraw all troops from the "endless wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Warn keeping presences would cost US power
An op-ed in yesterday's New York Times by Democrat Tammy Ducksworth demonstrates that when it comes to "patriotism," liberals are as morally blind as conservatives.
Iran -- Iran's legitimate nuclear facilities have no military component, according to the IAEA nuclear watchdog organization and annual US intelligence community assessments of global threats.
Iraq -- On June 24, over a dozen Kataib Hezbollah Popular Mobilization Unit fighters were arrested by Iraqi Counter-Terrorism forces in southern Baghdad. Some reports said two dozen or more.
CENTCOM's Kenneth McKenzie supports a very broad mission for America in the Middle East. Is it any wonder we haven't left?
NATO-member Turkey has controversially initiated a major bombing campaign over northern Iraq targeting Kurdish armed groups, specifically the outlawed PKK which Ankara has long said uses Iraqi territory to conduct a cross-border insurgency.
Iraq -- For over 40 years, Iraqis suffered from the scourge of US wars by hot and other means with no let-up, millions perishing, an entire population immiserated.
Over the past week or so, China has eased quarantine measures in Wuhan – the city in which the global coronavirus pandemic began – with the entire lockdown scheduled to end on 8 April.
First missiles arrive in Ayn al-Assad, Irbil
Iraq
General: Attack would divert resources, risks starting a war with Iran
General: Attack would divert resources, risks starting a war with Iran
