He voted against U.K. involvement in the Iraq War in 2003, against U.K. airstrikes on Bashar al-Assad in 2013, and against U.K. airstrikes on the Islamic State in December 2015. ..…

Trump was impatient to end all three major wars he had inherited from Barack Obama: Afghanistan and the wars against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. ..…

Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution Iraq was founded Tehran in 1982 at the suggestion of Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, Leader of Iran. ... Those thousands of Iraqi expatriates Iran were the constituency for Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution Iraq.. ..…

Germans have previously only trained Kurdish forces in Iraq, with the goal of helping the Kurds fight the Islamic State. The threat from the Islamic State has now diminished, yet Germany is now expanding its training to the forces of Iraq’s national government. . ..…

He faces the daunting tasks of rebuilding much of the country after four years of war with Islamic State militants, healing its ethnic and sectarian tensions, and balancing foreign relations with Iraq’s two major allies - Iran and its arch-foe the United States. . ... The cleric earlier..…