Posts Tagged: Iraq ISIS
Iraqi Prime Minister Declares Key City Is ‘Liberated’ From ISIS
Iraqi forces have seized the strategically important city of Tal Afar from ISIS, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Thursday. A US-backed operation to retake the northwestern...
Ending Iraq’s Humanitarian Crisis
Iraq, once the cradle of civilization,continues to experience one of the most horrific violent conflicts in modern history. It is hard to imagine the mammoth...
Jared Kushner Pays Surprise Visit to Iraq for Briefing on ISIS Battle
President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner paid a surprise visit to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and other officials here Monday, receiving...
Iraqi Paramilitary Forces Recapture Airbase Near Mosul in Fight Against ISIS
Iraqi paramilitary forces have recaptured a strategic airbase outside the northern city of Tal Afar, a spokesman for the Popular Mobilization Forces said. Ahmed al Assadi...
How the Next President Can Defeat ISIS
JNS.org - Chief among the many foreign policy challenges that President Barack Obama faces -- and his successor will have to meet -- is how to successfully defeat...
Defeating ISIS and Ending the Sunni-Shiite War in Iraq
Now that Iraqi forces, with the support of the international coalition, are gearing up to recapture Mosul -- ISIS’s last major stronghold in Iraq -- the question that looms...
Devastating ISIS Truck Bomb Attack Kills 115 in Baghdad
A devastating truck bombing on a bustling commercial street in downtown Baghdad killed 115 people early Sunday, brutally underscoring the Islamic State group's ability to...
Planning for a Post-ISIS Middle East
I recently published an article on the military strategy needed to defeat ISIS. Tragically, a few days thereafter, one of my family members was struck down by ISIS...
The US Should Arm the Kurds, Not the Shiite Militias, in Iraq
The Obama administration has provided the Iraqi army with military hardware worth billions of dollars. Iraq's main power brokers are Iraqi Shiite militias, who are...
Iraq’s Oldest Christian Monastery Destroyed by Islamic State, Images Confirm
JNS.org - New satellite images confirmed that St. Elijah’s monastery, Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery, was destroyed by the Islamic State terror group. Prior to its destruction, the...
Iraqi Military Says It Has ‘Liberated’ Central City of Ramadi From Islamic State
The Iraqi city of Ramadi has been "liberated" from so-called Islamic State, the Iraqi military has declared. Spokesman Brig Gen Yahya Rasul said forces had achieved...
More Mass Graves Found in Former ISIS-Held Iraqi Town
Iraqi officials say three more mass graves have been found in the northern town of Sinjar, where Kurdish forces backed by US-led airstrikes drove out...
As ISIS Threatens Jordan, Israel Could be Dragged Into Global Jihadist Conflict
JNS.org - Emerging from the chaos of the Syrian civil war, the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) terrorist group has...
Bloodthirsty Terror Group ISIS Orders Other Sunni Militant Groups to Swear Alligance
BBC - The radical al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS has told other Sunni rebel groups which joined the uprising in Iraq to swear an oath of allegiance...
