Special Operations Command said that Lindsay had deployed to Iraq five times during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn, and to Tajikistan in 2016 as part of terrorism mission addition to his recent deployment Afghanistan.. ..…
The one million estimate would make it London's second biggest demonstration after a rally against the Iraq War in February 2003, which organisers said close to 2 million people attended. . ..…
he declared, surely it justifies similar arms for Nationalist China, for Indochina, for India, ultimately for Japan and in Near East for Iran, for Syria, and for Iraq.. ..…
., the March 23 obituary states that Eitan, who died Saturday: . played important roles in the surgical strike on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981, t he theft in the late 1960s of at least 100 pounds of highly enriched uranium from a nuclear fuel plan in the Pittsburgh area that helped..…
four-year military operation to flush Islamic State from its territory Iraq and Syria ended Saturday erasing theocracy that once spanned two countries.. ... But those who have tracked the group the group is today than it was the time it was considered defeated — in 2011, U.S troops pulled out of..…
And never mind that if Bush II hadn’t bombed, invaded and occupied Iraq, the Middle East might be relatively stable today. Iraq, for all its problems, would nonetheless provide a strategic counterweight to Iran. ..…
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. ..…
If Washington can destabilize Syria and Iran, as it did Iraq and Libya, Hezbollah would be cut off from support. ..…
Her most recent books are States of Separation: Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (University of California Press, 2017), which explores the history of forced migration, population exchange, and refugee resettlement in Iraq, Syria, and Palestine during the interwar..…
A generation later, the people of the greater Middle East could be forgiven for thinking that they are in fact experiencing World War III, as endless invasions, bombing campaigns and proxy wars have reduced entire cities, towns and villages to rubble and killed millions of people across Iraq,..…
From Yugoslavia to Iraq to Libya, where does it stop? Observe that Trump is now seeking a NATO alliance with Bolsonaro Brazil -to perhaps back the bombing of Venezuela, or any other society, including the Brazilian people, not bowing to US-led global corporate colonization. ... The NATO that bombed..…
Just as the Iraq war will forever be Blair’s war, so Brexit will forever be May’s Brexit. ..…
Syria and Iraq . . . Image . . Iraqi paramilitary fighters during the funeral of fellow fighters who were killed in an attack near Mosul, Iraq. ... The United States now has 5,200 troops in Iraq, mostly spread between two main bases, including Al Asad in western Anbar Province,..…
Iraq's and sewage systems were bombed, causing widespread cholera. ... But not so much for the 4,424 US soldiers killed Iraq, or the 31,952 wounded, many with devastating brain and neurological injuries. ..…
TEHRAN - Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad Iraj Masjedi, in meeting with Special Representative of United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, reiterated Tehran's will to contribute to the reconstruction of Arab country... ..…
. + If the Democratic race boils down to Biden and Sanders, you’ll have two candidates in their late 70s who voted three times to overthrow Saddam, approved the murderous sanctions on Iraq, supported the illegal war on Serbia, backed the racist and punitive Clinton Crime Bill and fronted a scheme..…