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The Wall Street Journal Why President Trump and his advisers must not underestimate Iraq’s importance, via WSJ Opinion.
Iraq Is a Huge Opportunity for Trump
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Bartle Bull on Iraq: Abandoned in 2011, the country had made a remarkable comeback. The U.S. can help it succeed.
109 months ago
The Wall Street Journal "I think all of us here in this room, all of us in America, have paid for our gas and oil all along and I’m sure that we will continue to do so in the future," Mr. Mattis told reporters. “We are not in Iraq to seize anybody’s oil.”
Jim Mattis Says U.S. Isn’t in Iraq to Take Its Oil
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Mattis, on his first trip to Iraq as defense secretary, said he plans to assess the fight against Islamic State in the country but that the U.S. isn’t there to take its oil.
109 months ago
Reuters He is once again positioning himself as Iraq's most powerful man, at a time when its fate as a unified country could be decided: http://reut.rs/2dNQLkl
Ex-PM Maliki making comeback as Iraq's most powerful man
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Nuri al-Maliki is once again positioning himself as Iraq's most powerful man, poised to return as kingmaker in a fight for influence that could decide Iraq's fate as a unified country after the coming battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State.
113 months ago
CNN International Preparations for the aftermath of the Iraq invasion were "wholly inadequate," says John Chilcot, chairman of a British inquiry into the country's role in the Iraq War. Furthermore, the legal basis for the war was "far from satisfactory." More: http:/ Read more ... /cnn.it/29pWqeX
117 months ago
NPR The war against the Islamic State is hardly Iraq's only problem. Many factions are angling for power, sectarian differences abound and falling oil prices have left the economy in crisis.
In Chaotic Iraq, ISIS Is Just One Challenge Among Many
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From the outside, the world is focused on Iraq's war against ISIS. But from inside Iraq, it can feel like the anti-ISIS struggle is further fracturing the country, creating a morass of competing factions.
121 months ago
CBS News Some American veterans of Iraq can't bear watching the country they fought to secure lost to the forces of ISIS. Incredibly, some are returning to Iraq as volunteer soldiers.
U.S. vets return to Iraq to fight ISIS
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Charlie D'Agata met two Iraq war veterans fighting ISIS alongside Kurdish Peshmerga troops
124 months ago
The Economist The Russians have started their campaign in Iraq, bombing IS and setting up intelligence teams with the Iraqis
Have the Americans been outmanoeuvred by the Russians in Iraq?
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AT CHECKPOINTS across the country, Iraq’s many and various security forces cheer Russia’s arrival as an answer to their failure to turn the tide after 16 months...
125 months ago
The Economist The Russians have started their campaign in Iraq, bombing IS and setting up intelligence teams with the Iraqis
Have the Americans been outmanoeuvred by the Russians in Iraq?
econ.st
AT CHECKPOINTS across the country, Iraq’s many and various security forces cheer Russia’s arrival as an answer to their failure to turn the tide after 16 months...
125 months ago
The New York Times The National Museum of Iraq speaks about the country today: its entrenched corruption, squandered fortunes and the slender thread of heritage by which the very notion of a single reunified country partly hangs.
A Struggle to Secure Iraq’s Shared Past, and Perhaps Its Future
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The neglected National Museum of Iraq stands as a symbol of the slender thread of heritage by which the very notion of a reunified country partly hangs.
132 months ago
BuzzFeed “The whole country is surrounded now by IEDs, so what do you expect of us?” (via BuzzFeed News)
The Hidden Enemy In Iraq
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The forces fighting ISIS in Iraq have been struggling with the vast number of IEDs the militant group is leaving in its wake. Mike Giglio reports from Iraq.
132 months ago
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