iran-us tension: the repetition of history
Following this, on 27 December 2019 Iran allied with Iraq attacked on a US base military killing an American Civilian Contractor. ..…
Following this, on 27 December 2019 Iran allied with Iraq attacked on a US base military killing an American Civilian Contractor. ..…
In 1980, Iraq initiated a war with its much larger neighbor Iran that like a runway train stretched into an incredibly gruesome and bloody eight-year war in which the US allied with Iraq and supplied Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons and intelligence; over a million people died in that..…
The divisions within the rank and file of the terrorist organization seem to be growing as it has lost all of its territory, and thousands of Islamic State’s jihadists have been killed in airstrikes conducted by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State and the ground offensives by the Iraqi armed..…
It went on to take control of key cities such as Raqqa, Syria, and Fallujah, Iraq. Then came the June 2014 offensive that drew the U.S. back into Iraq: Al-Baghdadi's militants and allied Sunni fighters seized Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul and other Sunni-dominated..…
In April 2013, Baghdadi announced what amounted to takeover of Nusra Front, saying he was merging it into new group known as Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. In June 2014, Baghdadi's militants and allied Sunni fighters seized Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul and other..…
In April 2013, al- Baghdadi announced what amounted to takeover of Nusra Front, merging it into new group known as Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. Then came June 2014 offensive that drew U.S back into Iraq Al- Baghdadi's militants and allied Sunni fighters seized..…
this has not worked not in Iraq when the aligned with U.S in the 1970s only to be betrayed and not in Syria today, where U.S is abandoning Kurds and allowing Turkish government to attack them... ..…
Thousands of Islamic State's jihadists have been killed in airstrikes conducted by US-led against Islamic State and the ground offensives by Iraqi armed forces and allied militias Iraq and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces Syria.. ..…
Likely so, and then Iran would have greater incentive to emphasize ties with Shia-dominated Iraq. Moreover, chaotic, fragmented, Syria likely would do more to unsettle Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel, allied or friendly to America, than Iran. ..…
DOHUK, Iraq — Kurdish forces long allied with United States Syria announced new on Sunday with Damascus, sworn enemy of Washington that is backed by Russia, as Turkish troops moved deeper into their territory and President Trump ordered the withdrawal of American military from Syria.. ..…
Iranian and Syrian sources reported on Friday that unidentified aircraft had during the night struck Iranian and allied positions, including Hizballah and Iraqi Shiite militias, strung out along Syrian with Iraq. ..…
The Syrian Interior Minister Mohammed Khaled al-Rahmoun said the reopening of the border crossing after eight years of closure would revitalize economic cooperation between Syria and Iraq. Large numbers of Iran-allied Iraqi Shiite PMU militias control sections of the Iraqi side of the..…
Forces allied to Iran Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, for example, are within range of U.S bases. ..…
Forces allied to Iran Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, for example, are within range of U.S bases. ..…
'They funnel money and arms throughout the region that are used to fight U.S. allied troops in Iraq and Syria. ..…
Iraq war led to the rise of ISIS, with which United States has allied, whether intentionally or not, Syria, while battling it Iraq. ..…
What came often aligned against Bushies who brought us Iraq war. Instead populism without the modifier took over via Donald Trump and Amash is now out of the party, declaring his own independence on Fourth of July. ..…
Groups such combination of some 40 groups formed after the emergence of Daesh terrorist group Iraq in 2014.. PMU-aligned forces have played in reinforcing Iraqi army, which had suffered heavy setbacks in the face of initial lightning advances of the terrorists.. ..…
Groups such combination of some 40 groups formed after the emergence of Daesh terrorist group Iraq in 2014.. PMU-aligned forces have played in reinforcing Iraqi army, which had suffered heavy setbacks in the face of initial lightning advances of the terrorists.. ..…
Indeed, factions aligned with Iran Gaza, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon keeping close eye on America's next move.. ..…
Unable to find nuclear-related excuse for war, Trump Administration has announced it has discovered unspecified threats to U.S in Middle East by Iranian-aligned armed groups, particularly Iraq. ..…
WASHINGTON — British military official told reporters at Pentagon on Tuesday that he saw no increased risk from Iran or allied militias Iraq or Syria.. ..…
By setting up fortifications and barbed wire fences, American forces are also seeking to embolden their control over Jordan- Syria- Iraq and Syrian al-Tanf region.. Despite Syrian and allied military presence on Syria- Iraq, the US and south of the region, along with increased..…
The Pentagon declined to discuss what U.S military was doing to protect American troops from any retaliation by IRGC or Iran-aligned in places like Iraq.. ..…
The Pentagon declined to discuss what U.S military was doing to protect its troops from any retaliation by IRGC or Iran-aligned in places like Iraq. ..…
Such threats are particularly ominous for US forces in places such as Iraq, where Iran-aligned Shi’ite militia are located in close proximity to US troops. . ..…
Visiting Fellow Ranj Alaadin raises the point that Islamic State is still alive and present Syria despite Trump's claims of their defeat he Islamic State still has 30,000 fighters at Syria and Iraq, while Iran-aligned forces are becoming entrenched in the landscape and are consolidating..…
Many of PNAC’s goals — which included regime change in Iraq — aligned perfectly with George W. ..…
Baghdad, Iraq . [4] Barton Gelman. Washington Post, jan23, 1991.” Allied Air War Struck Broadly in Iraq”. . ..…
In the majority of these cases, fighters were captured by sub-state actors — YPG, SDF and forces aligned with Kurdish Regional Government Iraq. ..…
Operation Northern Watch began in 1997, U.S and allied forces had been enforcing zones over Iraq since Gulf War of 1991, when U.S repelled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's of Kuwait and began to enforce strict economic and military measures against his government. ..…
Bolton has managed to cut down on the number of National Security Council meetings, ensuring that he is the closest to Trump on issues involving security where Bolton is known for his interventionism and continued support of Iraq war. one source aligned with Bolton said the idea that NSC..…
Ottoman decision to back Central Powers diverted Allied resources in ways that show the profligate advantages they had over Germans and Austro-Hungarians by 1918 there were half Allied troops in Egyptian Expeditionary Force and another half million scattered around Iraq. ..…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that in light of the significant increased threat posed by Iran and its Shiite allied militias Iraq, it was decided to evacuate US diplomatic personnel temporarily from Basra and relocate them to US Embassy Baghdad. ..…
The agreement, announced by Rolf Ekeus, chairman of U.N commission on weapons destruction, defused the possibility of allied air and missile attacks to make Iraq adhere to cease-fire terms of Persian Gulf war.. ... Ekeus, in televised news conference at United Nations, said that the..…
Following this massacre the Allied ground forces, having swept through southern Iraq to encircle Kuwait, stopped short of Basra and gave free rein to Republican Guards the elite troops loyal to Iraqi regime to crush the insurgents. ..…
United States and its allies are expected to send more weapons to anti- Syrian Bashar al- Assad rebels to try to repel new push to open supply route between Iraq and Syria by Iran-allied Shiite militias fighting alongside local fighters.. According to human rights Amnesty International..…
Needless to say, ments about the victims of thousands of US and allied bombs Iraq and Syria, or the slaughter of civilians by US and Iraqi troops Mosul. ..…
KDP cooperates with its longtime rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in administering Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government. Both KDP and PUK have protested the presence of Iran-allied paramilitary group in Kurdistan region.. ..…
The LA Times article, that the move to Iran-backed militias marks a significant break with U.S policy, comes after Pentagon categorically denied that U.S military is providing assistance to Shiite militias Iraq participating in the ongoing offensive to liberate Mosul from Islamic State .. ..…
-allied against ISIS Iraq and Syria.. Yet the plan to slash Army's current military force of 490,000 by 40,000 duty soldiers, or nine percent, while reducing the number of brigade combat teams from roughly 42 to 35 are viewed as harrowing to many. ..…
Obama at first voiced skepticism that he would need authority from Congress to wage allied air strikes against ISIS and arm and train allied militants and rebels Iraq and Syria to topple ISIS. ..…
President Obama at one time voiced skepticism that he would need authority from Congress to wage allied air strikes against ISIS and arm and train allied militants and rebels Iraq and Syria to bring ISIS to its knees. ..…
U.S military, meanwhile, announced operation since U.S troops arrived and would target al-Qaida Iraq and Iranian-allied Shiite fighters nationwide. ..…
The Kurds do, of course, and it's that the fighting will ever spread to the north of what now is Iraq, for Kurdistan is already effectively separate country with its own army. The Kurds are currently allied with Shiite Arab religious parties of southern Iraq who control politics..…