America Never Understood Iraq
Days after the Kurdish Region of Iraq held a controversial independence referendum, Baghdad sent army and militia units to attack Kurdish positions in and around…
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Assad sets sights on Kurdish areas, risking new Syria conflict
t Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian allies appear to have been emboldened by events in Iraq, where Kurdish authorities have suffered a major blow since…
Syrian, Iraqi Kurds main sufferers of failed US, KRG policies
The U.S. strategy to back the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), dominated by the PKK terror organization’s Syria affiliate, the Democratic People’s Union (PYD) and its…
Iraq orders truce with Kurds to allow peaceful deployment at border crossings
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered a 24-hour suspension to military operations against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq, to allow for the…
Potential showdown in eastern Syria over IS-held
BEIRUT—As United States-allied fighters hurtle down the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, a showdown could ensue between the U.S. and Russia, whose allies are…
In Turkish move into Syria, a sign of how Russia is shaping the country
OCTOBER 19, 2017 BASEL, SWITZERLAND—For most of the Syrian civil war, there have been two constants of Turkish policy: support for opposition forces seeking the…
Is ISIS defeated in Iraq and Syria?
The Islamic State, a day after being ousted from its defacto capital of Raqqa, is losing its foothold in the two nations where it established…
Trump Isn’t Actually Doing Much to Curb Iran
In his speech last week laying out a new Iran strategy, President Trump focused less on the 2015 nuclear deal that he was decertifying (but not actually canceling),…
How The U.S. Lost The War In Syria To Russia And Iran
When the U.S. and its allies finally began their offensive to defeat the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in the eastern Syrian province of Deir…
What is left of ISIL in Iraq?
Far from the force that swept across Iraq in mid-2014 and seized control of nearly a third of the country, ISIL today has been weakened…