Despite what White House, State Department, and Congress so often assume, not everything Iraq is about United States — sometimes Washington is on the sidelines. ..…

US forces occupy Iraq, its sovereignty lost to Pentagon CIA control, .. ... The so-called US Iraq bilateral relationship is all about exploiting the country, its resources and people to serve US geopolitical and monied interests.. ..…

Most important, Iraq's vast oil fields used to belong to Ottoman Empire until British Empire grabbed them at the end of World War I.  ... US troops Syria appear to have come from the US Iraq, as VP Dick Cheney hoped, would become central US military base for Mideast.  ..…

Following the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, it became understood that the looting of Iraq's natural resources could not pay for the war. ... So the costs of the US Iraq were still socialized Pentagon paid for the war.. ..…

'Post-sectarian Iraq between theory and practice Published on 28 January 2019... ... The outcomes of Iraq's 2018 elections Published on June 2018... The ramifications from Iraq's elections do not mean we will witness Iraq, except it will certainly differ from... ..…

That is, the presence of the US Iraq was obstacle to the dynamism of Syrians Syria, and threat to Syrian government, and threat to Iran. ... By the presence and reigning of the First, the opportunity providedUS Iraq, and the fear the presence of the US had caused in the region.. ..…

That is, the presence of the US Iraq was obstacle to the dynamism of Syrians Syria, and threat to Syrian government, and threat to Iran. ... By the presence and reigning of the First, the opportunity providedUS Iraq, and the fear the presence of the US had caused in the region.. ..…

Intelligence politicization became the heart of controversy in the aftermath of Iraq War, where so much intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program turned out to be false or exaggerated. ... By such leaks and lazy journalists to tarnish U.S partisans suggested..…

The President is authorized to use Armed Forces of United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate order to defend the security of United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq and enforce all United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq... ... ..…

Either he ca not remember when Iraqi government agreed to allow U.N weapons inspectors back into Iraq -- or he's so desperate to keep lying about his actual record on Iraq war that he ca not bring to be truthful.. The President is authorized to use Armed Forces of United States..…

THE PRESIDENT Well, you know, Russia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, they're going to have to fight their battles too, okay. So at certain point, other countries — and that includes Russia and it includes Iran and Turkey and Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan and India. ..…

The gains of Iraq remain elusive, considering that the justifications for invasion, remain murky at best.. That's quote from Commission's conclusion on the so-called evidence linking Iraq to Osama bin Laden's group. ..…

The gains of Iraq remain elusive, considering that the justifications for invasion, remain murky at best.. That's quote from Commission's conclusion on the so-called evidence linking Iraq to Osama bin Laden's group. ..…

Tehran has tried to build influence Iraq for well over in effort to turn Iraq into subservient vassal state, provoking resentment among many Iraqis. ... United States has strong interest in helping Iraq navigate these tough challenges — both to help Iraq, and to Iran's..…

.- Iranian tensions in these weeks, rife with intel leaked by unnamed Trump administration officials, bears resemblance to the lead-up to U.S of Iraq. ..…

Iraq is conducting trials of thousands of suspected Islamic State fighters, including hundreds of foreigners, with many arrested as the group's strongholds crumbled.. ... Sunday's sentences bring the number of French citizens facing Iraq to nine, adding that another three are due to..…

Iraq is conducting trials of thousands of suspected Islamic State fighters, including hundreds of foreigners, with many arrested as the group's strongholds crumbled.. ... Sunday's sentences bring the number of French citizens facing Iraq to nine, adding that another three are due to..…

Some of you will join the fight against Islamic terrorists Afghanistan and Iraq so apparently the war on terror will roar on indefinitely. ... He is the author of memoir and critical analysis of Iraq War, Ghostriders of Baghdad Soldiers, Civilians, and Myth of Surge. ..…

These individuals are exceptionally gifted businesspeople, and they understand that the public never learns and so history just keeps repeating and then in 1954 Guatemala, and 1973 Chile, and 2003 Iraq, and 2019 Venezuela, and so many others, ad nauseum. ..…

In parts of Iraq, movement within Shiite sect has adapted the In parts of Iraq, movement within Shiite sect has adapted the traditional. ... The latmiyat themselves predate Islam, going back around 4,000 years to Iraq's Babylonian history, and have their own icons in modern-day..…

They are responsible for the killing of innocent people Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, and so on.. ..…

Iraq War was act of aggression, the supreme international crime against peace. ..…

WikiLeaks put on the map then low-level US intelligence analyst angered by the US wars Iraq and Afghanistan.. ... Justice Department said that in 2009, before Manning acted, WikiLeaks solicited specific classified materials involving the US wars Afghanistan and Iraq so that it..…

Media seemed concerned that Fleischer was respectful of the toll of Iraq War, including what Washington Post estimated as thousands of Iraqis — researchers would put that number at, minimally, half million.. ... She's our Iraq, and we have been working with her to highlight and to..…

Media seemed concerned that Fleischer was respectful of the toll of Iraq War, including what Washington Post estimated as thousands of Iraqis — researchers would put that number at, minimally, half million.. ... She's our Iraq, and we have been working with her to highlight and to..…

So state-linked, -employed, section of Iraqi society, with assorted militias protecting its interests, enjoys the benefits of Iraq's still substantial oil revenues, while vast swathes of largely Sunni Iraq amid failing infrastructure... ... It's they, like their Kurdish..…

But so far, he has eluded Americans, Russians, Syrians, Iraqis and Kurds... ... In April 2013, al-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. ..…

But not so much for the 4,424 US soldiers killed Iraq, or the 31,952 wounded, many with devastating brain and neurological injuries.  ... Things became so absurd that the story went out that Saddam had 'drones of death that were poised to attack America.. ..…

Ari Fleischer tackles 'Bush lied, people died myth about Iraq war, gets earful from liberal blue checks. ... After the war, bipartisan group was created to determine what went wrong, particularly why the community's conclusions about Iraq were so different from what was found on..…

Algerian Diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi Should Avoid Rushing into Elections So We Don't End Up Like Iraq or Libya. Algerian Lakhdar Brahimi said in March 13, 2019 interview on Channel TV that Algeria should fight against corruption vigorously and fix the in its state, order to avoid ending up..…

spokesman for Iraqi Defense Ministry has condemned recent statement by US President Donald Trump that American forces must remain in  Iraq so Washington can keep close eye on neighboring  Iran, stressing that his country would never allow outsiders to use its territory for military action..…

Most recently, it did so Yemen, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Ukraine, and number of other countries. ..…

Top Shia Cleric: Iraq Won't Turn into Launch Pad for Aggression Against Others . TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq's most senior Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has fiercely criticized the latest statement by US President Donald Trump that American forces must remain in Iraq so..…

Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government also created committee to investigate crimes against Yezidis, by International Federation for Human Rights says the committee's evidence does not feed into any prosecution system. ... Unlike UN-mandated Iraq, IIIM does not have the support of Syrian..…

The main reason for toppling Saddam and putting sanctions on the people of Iraq was the fact that Iraq had ditched Dollar-for-Oil sales.. ... Not so ago, Iraq and Libya were the two most modern and secular states in Middle East and North Africa, with the highest..…

Shiite government forces and various militias from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq's  Badr Brigades to Sadr's Mahdi Army had won the Battle of Baghdad and carried out massive ethnic cleansing of Sunnis, along with other religious minorities, comprise the majority of the displaced people and..…

Both sides also highlighted the need to link Syria with Iran through Iraq by railways so that Iran has direct link to Mediterranean.. ..…

 Furthermore, why has U.S government, armed with thousands of nuclear weapons, been so worried about Iraq, Iran, and North Korea acquiring them. ..…

Meanwhile on Saturday, Trump reinvented Washington's Syria, saying e're killing ISIS for Russia, for Iran, for Syria, for Iraq, for lot of other places.  .. ... According to Kurdish-language Hawar News, ISIS fighters have Turkey, able to move cross-border into Syria and Iraq, adding..…

U.S troops have gone back to re-fight Iraq over and over, and now American children born at about the time of 11 may be deployed to the same fields Iraq and Afghanistan where their parents fought. ... It grew out of the chaos and violence unleashed by U.S of Iraq, and..…

The new Iraq has been detrimental on all Iraqis, especially women, said Yanar Mohammed, president of Organisation of Women's Freedom Iraq .. ... Some of the tribal and misogynist officials did in the past that we doing illegal thing and they did not shut us down, adding that one..…

The anniversary of the signing of Armistice to end World War I has generated lot of discussion and articles about the so-called. Most of the neocon chickenhawks who so led us into Iraq want to be regarded as modern-day Winston Churchills.. ..…

The invasion of Afghanistan, and more so Iraq, was based on confidence that peerless U.S military power could demolish oppressive governments and clear the way for nation building that would culminate in order — all without crippling complications or excessive costs. Yet Afghanistan..…

More than 200 mass graves of Islamic State victims found Iraq - U.N report Reuters. ... The graves contain the remains of thousands of people, believed to be the victims of Sunni group, overran large swathes of Iraq and declared it part of their so-called caliphate.. ..…

The dead include women, children, the elderly and disabled, and members of Iraq's armed forces and police. ... The graves contain the remains of thousands of people, believed to be the victims of Sunni group, overran large swathes of Iraq and declared it part of their so-called..…

To Avoid Repeating Catastrophic Mistake of Iraq Invasion, Senate Bill Would Forbid Attack on Iran Without Congressional Approval... The Senate voted to let Bush attack Iraq.. The pair of them continue to fund U.S military occupation of Iraq to this day.. ..…

Iraqi soldier aims his rifle during battle with Daesh militants at the front line in Intisar district of Mosul, Iraq, November 4, 2016 Embed.. ... Iraqi troops managed to Mosul's limits earlier this week for the time since June 2014, when the city fell to Daesh amid northern and western..…

The political crisis that has been simmering Iraq, almost completely unnoticed by U.S media, boiled over last weekend when anti-government protesters mobilized by supporters of Shiite Moktada al-Sadr poured into the so-called. ... ISIS originally emerged Iraq from the chaos and..…

Saddam Hussein was the power behind Iraq's when Kurdish tore the country apart in 1974-75. ... Iraq will renounce this treaty as easily as American pilots, repudiated them afterward. ..…

To assess the state of Iraq's program to acquire so-called weapons of mass destruction - nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, sometimes referred to talked with technical experts and weapons inspectors. ... The Persian Gulf and U.N weapons inspections set back Iraq's..…

The week of January, Lima News Ohio wrote skeptical editorial about Iraq. ... Letters January to Missoulian Missoula, Mont., argued that North Korea was the danger, not Iraq, that oil and ambition were behind the desire for war and that it was Iraq had weapons of mass..…

Pallets of Cash, Risen presents account of how Texas and Republican loyalist named Stuart Bowen tried to find out what happened to the approximately $20 billion that Bush administration sent into Iraq in the year or so after the invasion. The waves of cash washing over Iraq..…

So, I think Washington is committed to trying to destroy Syria as it destroyed Libya and Iraq. So, I think this is continuation of the policy of trying to undermine nationalist governments in the region... ..…

This bipartisan faction coalesced around the report of Iraq Study Group, from. ... As result the war, could easily erupt again as Shia, Kurdish and Sunni elite continue to fight over the future of Iraq.. ..…

-led coalition ally against ISIS, currently on its last legs Mosul, the group's last Iraq.. ... ISIS's expected defeat Mosul is projected to split the group's so-called caliphate Iraq and Syria, pushing the jihadists out of Iraqi territory.. ..…

By continuing to expand its international enterprise, Islamic State is expected to adapt to the imminent collapse of its so-called caliphate Iraq and Syria, in part, particularly the drug trade.. ... From interrogations and surveillance, by Islamic State — which has taxed shipments of..…

Moreover, ISIS and its affiliates have expanded to multiple countries where they may find sources of income other than what is available to them in their so-called caliphate Iraq and Syria.. ... According to figures provided by Global Coalition, by November 2016 Islamic State had lost..…

Iraq North of Baghdad, Iraqi and Shiite militias retook the city of Baiji October 2015, where Iraq's largest oil refinery is located. ... -led against ISIS builds on the momentum against ISIS, we could see end of the group's control of large parts of Iraq and Syria, including the..…

The situation is so grave, Christians have been leaving Iraq and Syria large numbers and the pattern has been replicated in host of other Muslim nations due to campaign of intimidation. In Iraq alone, the numbers of Christians there have declined so much, there may be..…

Yesterday's attacks marked the continuation of campaign by al-Qaeda affiliated groups Iraq. ... Bush that if he invaded Iraq, U.S would be responsible for the future. ..…

By extremely questionable evidence, Bush's on Iraq in the early part of the century, Spanish- American War was justified— in this case the role that Spain was thought to have played in the blowing up of American Maine. Just which President Bush had used to justify war on Iraq,..…

In memoir, former White House press Scott McClellan became Bush administration official to confirm the deception reported in Center for Public Integrity's project, Iraq The War Card. ... United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441, that final resolution made it very clear, this is opportunity..…

It was in light of this problem that the eradication of Saddams Iraq regime was so important, for United States eliminated one of the significant states that had long track record of working with and harboring terrorist organizations. ..…

Taking casualty trends another 500 or so Americans at minimum will die Iraq and perhaps 20 times as many Iraqis before Petraeus returns to Capitol Hill March to provide update.. ... He said that Iraq was traumatized society without noting that the war triggered by the badly..…

David Petraeus is expected to make presentation that will include prediction about the future of U.S Iraq, including the number of troops that should be there. ... The congressman believes new approach is needed to produce Iraq so that American soldiers are not in the middle of..…

he did not call for total withdrawal of troops from Iraq, Lugar, widely respected former chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, did say that security interests call for downsizing and re-deployment of U.S military forces to more sustainable positions Iraq or Middle East.. .....…

And now we know, from Omar Nasiri's testimony, that Libi had declared that Iraq was al-Qaida's main target well before he was captured. ... the obvious thing would be to tell them lies that would persuade United States to invade Iraq. ..…

In this respect, the bombing of al-Askariya shrine was TET of Iraq War.. ... Those whom Walter Russell Mead labels Jacksonian conservatives, supported Iraq war not to promote democracy.. ..…

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, arriving on unannounced visit Thursday, said the number of U.S troops Iraq would not be increased except more international forces are needed to help quell rising in the country... ... But Bush administration has remained vague on the..…

But United States has run into opposition elsewhere, notably from two of Europe's most populous countries, France and Germany, U.N inspection teams Iraq should be given more time to do their work.. ... Turkey, country that would be key in any U.S military campaign against Iraq, will..…