The US Assassination Of Qasem Soleimani In Baghdad
There is a well-observed episode of the American television series The West Wing where the character of President Josiah Bartlet,Continue Reading
Tag: Iraq
David Petraeus Defends British Army Just Days Before New Accusations Of War Crimes
The apparent support expressed by David Petraeus, the disgraced former United States Army general, for the controversial campaign in theContinue Reading
The Vietnam War And The War On Terror
An article for the current affairs website TomDispatch by Danny Sjursen, a serving officer in the United States Armed Forces andContinue Reading
Hezbollah, Barack Obama And Syria
The news and current affairs website, Politico, has published a number of claims by former government officials in the UnitedContinue Reading
The United States Has Spent $1.46 Trillion On War-Fighting Since 2001
Over the last few years I’ve published several articles examining the financial costs of the United States’ global “War onContinue Reading
Kurdish Infighting Handed Valuable Kirkuk Region To Baghdad And Tehran
Reading this report in the Guardian by Martin Chulov, the newspaper’s veteran Middle East correspondent, it seems that my analysis ofContinue Reading
The Unexpected Kurdish Retreat From Kirkuk
The precipitous withdrawal of forces nominally loyal to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) from the oil-rich Kirkuk region of northernContinue Reading
Kurds To Vote On Independence In Referendum
Here’s an upcoming event which is receiving relatively little attention in the Western press, despite its potential importance for theContinue Reading
An Army Humiliated, The British Military In Ireland, Afghanistan And Iraq
In retrospect it seemed inevitable that the Irish Republican Army would emerge largely undefeated from twenty years of conflict with the BritishContinue Reading
Armed Drones Of The Islamic State In Syria And Iraq
The open-source analysis site, Bellingcat, has published a detailed article on the use of improvised armed drones by the Islamic State (IS) inContinue Reading
The War On Terror Has Simply Generated More Terror
From the excellent TomDispatch, this analysis of the so-called “War on Terror” in the Middle East by the United StatesContinue Reading
An Islamic State Drone Bombs An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank In Iraq
Talking of the Islamic State (IS), this recent propaganda video released by the group highlights its deployment of improvised drones in theContinue Reading
The Battle Of Mosul Becomes Wartainment
The ongoing military contest for the city of Mosul, the formerly populous town in northern Iraq held by the Islamic State since 2014,Continue Reading
The United States Has Supplied 1.4 Million Guns To Iraq And Afghanistan
The commercial value of the so-called “War on Terror” to the arms industries of the United States and the UnitedContinue Reading
The Digital Tech Of The Islamic State And Others
Bellingcat has an interesting article by Jett Goldsmith summarising some of the online techniques used by adherents of violent political Islam toContinue Reading
Ireland, The Long War And The Iraq Inquiry By Sir John Chilcot
If the long-delayed findings of Britain’s Iraq Inquiry, led from 2009 to 2011 by senior civil servant Sir John Chilcot, have driven a stake through the political legacy ofContinue Reading
How One Turbulent City In Iraq Can Stand For The Whole Country
With some sections of the Western news media proclaiming imminent victory over the Islamic State (an entirely nebulous concept given theContinue Reading
A Catholic Priest And The Message Of British Guns Good, Irish Guns Bad
So a Roman Catholic priest, a Jesuit intellectual no less, condemns armed insurrection by a significant body of men andContinue Reading
Two Documentaries On The Kurdish War, Plus The Russians Get A Fright
A couple of recent video documentaries on the Kurdish struggle in Syria and Iraq. The first, “Kurdistan: Girls at War“, wasContinue Reading
Michael Ware On The Iraq War And The Islamic State
These two interviews with the Australian war correspondent, Michael Ware, highlighting his traumatic experiences reporting on the conflict in Iraq, nowContinue Reading
The Tangled Politics Of The Iraqi Kurdistan Region
A fair degree of simplistic thinking exists in the Western news media and political classes when it comes to the position ofContinue Reading
Turkey’s Invasion Of Northern Iraq
The left-leaning blog, Moon Of Alabama, has published a number of insightful articles in recent days on a serious military escalation in the MiddleContinue Reading
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