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JWing
12-30-2019, 05:38 PM
US Retaliates Against Kataib Hezbollah Raising Question Of What Comes Next?
(http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/12/us-retaliates-against-kataib-hezbollah.html)
Moderator adds: The previous two year thread: http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...q-in-2018-2019 (http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?26307-Iraq-in-2018-2019) had 225 posts ad 63k views. Time for a new thread and very topical in view of what recently happened.

JWing
12-31-2019, 06:51 PM
Kataib Hezbollah’s Role Along The Iraq-Syrian Border: Security Profits Supporting Iran (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/12/kataib-hezbollahs-role-along-iraq.html)

JWing
01-02-2020, 06:24 PM
Musings On Iraq Pro-Iran Groups Take Next Step To Expel US Forces From Iraq (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/pro-iran-groups-take-next-step-to-expel.html)

JWing
01-03-2020, 12:26 AM
Stars and Stripes: Iran-backed militia leader reported dead after strike at Baghdad airport (https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/iran-backed-militia-leader-reported-dead-after-strike-at-baghdad-airport-1.613351)

JWing
01-03-2020, 05:02 PM
Musings On Iraq Crimes And Misdemeanors Of Kataib Hezbollah During War Vs ISIS Interview With Free Lance Journalist Jonathan Lee Krohn (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/crimes-and-misdemeanors-of-kataib.html)

davidbfpo
01-04-2020, 09:51 AM
The previous two year thread: http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?26307-Iraq-in-2018-2019 had 221 posts ad 63k views. Time for a new thread and very topical in view of what recently happened.

In a moment a few posts will be moved over.

JWing
01-04-2020, 06:19 PM
Musings On Iraq How Will The Deaths Of General Suleimani and Abu Muhandis Affect Iraq? Comments by the Washington Institute’s Mike Knights (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/how-will-deaths-of-general-suleimani.html)

JWing
01-05-2020, 07:36 PM
Musings On Iraq Iran’s Political Plan Unfolding In Iraq (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/irans-political-plan-unfolding-in-iraq.html)

JWing
01-06-2020, 04:38 PM
Musings On Iraq Islamic State Makes Its Return In December 2019 (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/islamic-state-makes-its-return-in.html)

JWing
01-07-2020, 04:24 PM
Musings On Iraq Iraq and U.S. Struggling With American Military Withdrawal (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/iraq-and-us-struggling-with-american.html)

JWing
01-07-2020, 08:21 PM
Time Despite U.S.-Iraq Feud, Iraqi Prime Minister Privately Mulls Delay of U.S. Troop Departure (https://time.com/5760309/despite-u-s-iraq-feud-iraqi-prime-minister-privately-mulls-delay-of-u-s-troop-departure/)

JWing
01-08-2020, 04:31 PM
Musings On Iraq Could Missile Attack On Iraqi Bases Defuse US-Iran Tensions? (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/could-missile-attack-on-iraqi-bases.html)

JWing
01-09-2020, 02:39 AM
Middle East Eye REVEALED: Iraqi armed factions not ready to strike US forces, commanders say (https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-iraqi-armed-factions-not-ready-strike-us-forces-right-now-commanders-say)

JWing
01-14-2020, 04:22 PM
Musings On Iraq US Increases Threats Against Iraq If It Forces US Troops To Leave (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/us-increases-threats-against-iraq-if-it.html)

JWing
01-16-2020, 04:28 PM
Musings On Iraq Review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-losing-iraq-inside-post-war.html)

JWing
01-16-2020, 04:29 PM
Musings On Iraq Pro-Iran Hashd Continue Attacks Upon US Interests In Iraq (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/pro-iran-hashd-continue-attacks-upon-us.html)

JWing
01-23-2020, 04:29 PM
Musings On Iraq Review Imagining The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-imagining-nation-nationalism.html)

JWing
02-03-2020, 04:30 PM
Musings On Iraq:
Sadr Holds Anti-U.S. Rally, Tilts Towards Iran, Then Crackdown On Protests (https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/sadr-holds-anti-us-protest-tilts.html)
Iraq Continues To Rank In Bottom Of International Corruption Index (https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/iraq-continues-to-rank-in-bottom-of.html)
Review Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq (https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-weapons-of-mass-deception-uses.html)
Sadr Returns To Iraq’s Protests After Betraying Them For Iran (https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/sadr-returns-to-iraqs-protests-after.html)
Conflicts Between Protesters And Sadrists Over Their Return And New Interim Premier (https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/conflicts-between-protesters-and.html)
Violence Continues Its Up And Down Pattern In Iraq (https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/violence-continues-its-up-and-down.html)

JWing
02-06-2020, 07:00 PM
AP: Not a break, but fissures in US-Iraqi military alliance https://apnews.com/999e1596c6021cc8710b5daec2ba41f2

JWing
02-19-2020, 04:31 PM
Musings On Iraq
Review The United States And Iraq Since 1990, A Brief History With Documents (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/review-united-states-and-iraq-since.html)
Review The Next Attack, The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/review-benjamin-daniel-and-simon-steven.html)
Review Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the Present (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/review-iraq-between-occupations.html)
Review Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-weapons-of-mass-deception-uses.html)
Review Imagining The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-imagining-nation-nationalism.html)
Review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-losing-iraq-inside-post-war.html)
Review Understanding Iraq, the Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/polk-william-understandingiraq-whole.html)
Review Culture, History & Ideology in the Formation of Ba’thist Iraq, 1968-89 (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/12/review-culture-history-ideology-in.html)
Review Islamic State The Digital Caliphate (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/12/review-atwan-abdel-bari-islamicstate.html)
Review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/12/review-hoodwinked-documents-that-reveal.html)
Review Iraq Under Siege, The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/12/review-iraq-under-siege-deadly-impact.html)
Review The Future of Iraq, Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division? (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/12/review-future-of-iraq-dictatorship.html)
Revised Review Iraq and the Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/11/revised-review-iraq-and-politics-of-oil.html)
Review Shatter the Nations, ISIS and the War for the Caliphate (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/11/review-shatter-nations-isis-and-war-for.html)
Review After The Caliphate (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/11/review-after-caliphate.html)
Review They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/10/review-they-will-have-to-die-now-mosul.html)

JWing
02-20-2020, 04:24 PM
Musings On Iraq Review The Unraveling, High Hopes And Missed Opportunity In Iraq (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/review-unraveling-high-hopes-and-missed.html)

JWing
02-24-2020, 04:25 PM
Musings On Iraq Pro-Iran Groups Name New Acting Head Of Hashd (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/pro-iran-groups-name-new-acting-head-of.html)

JWing
02-25-2020, 04:32 PM
Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.6 Development of UK Strategy and Options, November 2002 to January 2003 (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/chilcot-inquiry-section-36-development.html)

JWing
03-02-2020, 04:21 PM
Musings On Iraq Review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html)

JWing
03-05-2020, 04:06 PM
Musings On Iraq Violence Largely Unchanged In Iraq In February 2020 (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/violence-largely-unchanged-in-iraq-in.html)

JWing
03-09-2020, 03:30 PM
Musings On Iraq Review Iraq, People, History, Politics (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-iraq-people-history-politics.html)

JWing
03-09-2020, 04:35 PM
Rudaw Two US service members killed in anti-ISIS operation in northern Iraq (https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/090320201)

JWing
03-11-2020, 03:26 PM
Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Iraq Conspiracy Theory Was Debunked By Captured Baath Documents (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/laurie-mylroies-iraq-conspiracy-theory.html)

JWing
03-13-2020, 03:37 PM
Musings On Iraq As Talk Of Expelling US Forces From Iraq Dies Down Attacks Upon Americans Pick Up (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/as-talk-of-expelling-us-forces-from.html)

JWing
03-15-2020, 06:48 PM
Musings On Iraq ### For Tat Between U.S. and Pro-Iran Hashd Continues (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/###-for-tat-between-us-and-pro-iran.html)

JWing
03-17-2020, 03:08 AM
NBC: U.S. planning to move some troops out of Iraq https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/u-s-planning-move-some-troops-out-iraq-n1159916

JWing
03-17-2020, 04:30 PM
Musings On Iraq Review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy (https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-iraqs-dysfunctional-democracy.html)

JWing
03-19-2020, 04:03 PM
Musings On Iraq Pro-Najaf Hashd Threaten To Leave Hashd Commission (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/pro-najaf-hashd-threaten-to-leave-hashd.html)

davidbfpo
03-19-2020, 05:42 PM
An investigation, using graphics, film footage and more to show a 3-D sequence of events:
In 1 October 2019, mass protests broke out in Baghdad and several southern Iraqi cities over unemployment, corruption and poor public services. Throughout these protests Amnesty International has documented security forces using excessive and, in some cases, lethal force to disperse protesters. This has included the use of live ammunition by masked gunmen and snipers, as well as abusive use of tear gas.

Here we detail the use of a particular type of tear gas grenade modelled after high-explosive military grenades designed for combat. Sometimes nicknamed ‘smokers’ by protesters, these are M99 grenades made by Serbian manufacturer Sloboda Ĉaĉak as well as M651 tear gas grenades and M713 smoke grenades manufactured by the Defense Industries Organization (DIO) of Iran.

Weighing around 250 grams, these grenades are up to 10 times heavier than standard tear gas canisters. Security forces in Baghdad have targeted these directly at groups of mainly peaceful protesters, with their very design maximizing horrific injury and death.
Link:https://teargas.amnesty.org/iraq/

JWing
03-19-2020, 11:09 PM
NBC Trump nixed aggressive response to attacks by Iranian proxies because of coronavirus, officials say (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-nixed-aggressive-response-attacks-iranian-proxies-because-coronavirus-say-n1163666)

JWing
03-23-2020, 03:40 PM
Musings On Iraq Review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-out-of-ashes-resurrection-of.html)

JWing
03-27-2020, 04:38 PM
Musings On Iraq Review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-isis-reader-milestone-texts-of.html)

JWing
04-01-2020, 04:29 PM
Musings on Iraq Review The Fall of Baghdad (https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-fall-of-baghdad.html)

JWing
04-01-2020, 04:30 PM
Reuters Fractures grow among Iraq militias, spell political retreat (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-militias-idUSKBN21J5EZ)

JWing
04-02-2020, 05:08 PM
Musings On Iraq Violence Drops In Iraq In March 2020 (http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/04/violence-drops-in-iraq-in-march-2020.html)