Complete review of security in Iraq in 2017. Defeat of IS on the battlefield and group's withdrawal led to the lowest violence since 2003.
Complete review of security in Iraq in 2017. Defeat of IS on the battlefield and group's withdrawal led to the lowest violence since 2003.
We made a desert and called it peace
The quotation is from Tacitus, a Roman Senator and appears in a short article by Professor Paul Rogers - who asks will ISIS reappear as Iraq struggles to rebuild cities like Mosul and have enough force to counter a guerilla campaign.
Link:https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-r...isis-comeback?
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The hunt for Baghdadi
From The Daily Beast a short article of note:In part based on interviews with ISIS prisoners in Iraqi custody and concludes:Wanted Dead or Alive: The Frustrating, Failing Hunt for ISIS Leader Baghdadi; Americans and Russians have converged on the Euphrates valley where the ISIS "caliphate" is making a last stand. They "think" Baghdadi's alive there. But he could be long gone.Link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-fr...ptured-or-die?Clearly no government or intelligence service has enough information to kill al Baghdadi.
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