It’s telling that SIGAR was preceded by SIGIR, (the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction) which filed similarly critical yet largely unnoticed reports. . ..…

Despite repeated claims by Trump administration, and President, that ISIS has been defeated, US intelligence assesses that the terror group very likely will continue to pursue external attacks from Iraq and Syria against regional and Western adversaries, including United States, Coats added.. The..…

When the United States was enjoying its unipolar moment, for example, it embraced new missions such as dual containment (of both Iran and Iraq) and started extending security guarantees to various protectorates even when they were hard to defend and contributed little to U.S. security (e.g., the..…

And, no, this caliphate would not be more benign than that of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. ..…

Sheikh Khazaali Americans Will Withdraw from Iraq Voluntarily or by Force Al-Manar TV Lebanon... ... and to bypass Iraqi and parliament, Iraq can treat it the same way and drive it out by force. ..…

And most recently, he named ardent advocate of dictators and war criminals, cheerleader for virtually every U.S from Reagan's on Nicaragua to Bushes invasions of Iraq, and perjurer .. ..…

It was Bush's of Iraq, the results of which were predictable, that opened the region to chaos, including the growth of ISIS. ..…

It was Bush’s invasion of Iraq, the results of which were predictable, that opened the region to chaos, including the growth of ISIS. The Iraq invasion also opened the flood gates of an ongoing refugee crisis (which the Syrian civil war—arguably prolonged by U.S. involvement—made even..…

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

fire-breathing fanatic for Israel who championed the invasion and destruction of Iraq, Abrams was Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights for Reagan administration, called U.S. ..…

The announcement raises the advisory to its highest level, putting Venezuela on list that also includes Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and South Sudan... ..…

The report also said the Islamic State group 'remains a terrorist and insurgent threat' inside Iraq, where the government faces 'an increasingly disenchanted public.' . . . ... Asked for her assessment, CIA director Gina Haspel said of Islamic State: 'They're still dangerous,' adding that they still..…

To head off the imagined dangers that would result from proliferation, Washington and its allies have imposed devastating economic sanctions on countries such as Iraq and North Korea, and even launched war of aggression, that killed more people than did the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and..…

We saw this U.S mindset of indifference to the value of foreign lives with the sanctions that U.S imposed on Iraq for 11 years, with the aim of inflicting so much suffering on Iraqi people that they would rise up and revolt against their Saddam Hussein. ..…

We agree that the creation of Israel and Zionism has led to hierarchy amongst Jews living Palestine and has been tool to break the ties of Jewish communities living Arab lands from Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen to Iraq. ..…

This follows National Security Adviser John Bolton —  a key neocon architect and cheerleader for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and who has also advocated regime change in Iran, Venezuela and elsewhere — calling Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua a “troika of tyranny,” a hypocritical..…

Abrams played in Iran-Contra affair and went on to be one of the chief architects of the disastrous US invasion of Iraq in 2003. ..…

Iran Supports Iraq’s Mediation between Syria, Arab States  . . Iran-Syria Joint Auto-Maker to Resume Production  . . ..…

Embrace the label and there is not much evidence of centralized command and control links between fighters Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria yet... ..…

to the war against Iraq, to the bombing and destruction of Yugoslavia in 1999, etc., the media and the governments near unanimity give the population the false impression that all right-thinking people want regime change Venezuela.. ..…

I served in the war in Iraq at the height of the war in 2005, a war that took over 4,000 of my brothers and sisters in uniforms’ lives. The American people need to understand that this war with Iran would be far more devastating, far more costly than anything that we ever saw in Iraq. ..…