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The Other Potential Conflict Which Lurks Beneath Iraq’s War Against ISIS
Cheapened by overuse and over-simplification few analogies between present-day events and Nazi Germany are very apt. Nevertheless the nature of the current alliance of disparate groups in Iraq against...
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The Road To Iraq’s Future Runs Through Anbar
The Population Mobilization Units (PMU’s) have come a long way since their inception in the wake of the Islamic State (Daesh) terror gangs blitz across Northern Iraq in June 2014. A predominantly Shia...
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Anbar: A Tale of Two Offensives
When the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) lost control of Anbar’s provincial capital Ramadi just under a year after their infamous loss of Mosul to the marauding Islamic State (Daesh) group late last May it...
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Three Cheers for Sistani
When Iraq’s most pre-eminent Shia cleric comments on political affairs it’s worth your while to listen. But don’t expect some rabble-rousing sectarian demagoguery from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani....
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19 women have been executed by ISIS for not having sex, Kurdish official says
Spokesperson of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, Mimousini, said on Monday, that ISIS had executed 19 women in Mosul, attributing the cause to refusing the practice of the so-called sexual...
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Protests in Iraq: An Indictment or Vindication of Iraqi Democracy?
Just over 12-years ago the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein forced all his people to once again (it would turn out to be the very last time) vote for him in a characteristically depraved attempt at...
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Saying Good Riddance to Sectarian Quotas in Iraq
Arguments in favour of sectarian quotas in Iraq’s remind one of the old arguments invariably forwarded for partition. They sound reasonable and realistic on the surface. A solution that makes everyone...
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A Case Study of the Islamic State as the Saddam Regime’s Afterlife: The...
Saddam Hussein created the Fedayeen Saddam in 1994 as a paramilitary Praetorian unit. The Fedayeen were initially charged with protecting the regime from a repeat of the revolts that followed Saddam’s...
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Baghdad-on-Sea: Iraqi’s Take Over Caspian Coast
A new trend is occurring on Iran’s northern Caspian Sea shores – Iraqis – specifically residents of Baghdad. This uncommon sight to Mazandaran locals and Tehran natives alike has, according to...
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Following the shock announcement that citizens of seven Arab nations would not be allowed entry into the United States of America as of Friday 27th January 2017 for a period of 90 days, Iraq has...
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