Kurdish Forces Open Attack on Mosul From the North
NY Times NAWARAN, Iraq — Kurdish forces opened a new front in the Iraqi campaign to recapture Mosul on Thursday...
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‘It’s victory time’: Iraqi troops launch attack to retake Mosul in biggest military operation in the region since the 2003 US invasion
Daily Mail One of the main bridges in Mosul has been taken out in an airstrike, as militia forces...
Gulf War Syndrome: Documents Prove UK and US Military Personnel were Injected with Untested Vaccines
Health Impact News In 1990, the recruitment of soldiers commenced for preparation to fight against Iraq in the Gulf...
ISIS Builds Wall Of Oil Tankers To Stand Against Iraqi/US Forces
OilPrice.com The Islamic State is digging a moat around its biggest stronghold in Iraq, Mosul, in preparation for an...
ISIS Has Reportedly Used Chemical Weapons Against Iraqi, US Forces
Townhall CNN is reporting that ISIS forces have launched a chemical weapons attack against U.S. and Iraqi forces. A...
US, Iraqi troops close in on last ISIS-held city
CNN Indications are growing that the attack to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and ISIS’ last major stronghold...
ISIS captures up to 3,000 people fleeing violence in Iraq, UN says
CNN ISIS militants have captured up to 3,000 people displaced from their homes trying to flee conflict zones in...
Pentagon will send hundreds more troops to Iraq following seizure of key airfield
Washington Post BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said Monday that the Pentagon will deploy an additional 560...
Iraq government forces retake key air base from ISIS
NY Daily News Iraqi government forces on Saturday recaptured an air base in northern Iraq from ISIS, a victory...
Iraqi Commander Declares Fallujah ‘Fully Liberated’ From ISIS
NBC News BAGHDAD — A senior Iraqi commander declared that the city of Fallujah was “fully liberated” from ISIS...
The Gulf War Syndrome Plot: The US Government’s Conspiracy of Silence and Obstruction Against Gulf War Veterans
Green Med Info Our service men and women put their lives on the line every day to protect us...
Trap tightens on civilians as battles rage in Iraq’s Fallujah
AFP and Daily Mail The Islamic State group battled Iraqi forces and held civilians hostage Wednesday to defend its...
19 Yazidi girls burned alive for refusing to have sex with their ISIS captors
Fox News Nineteen Iraqi Yazidi girls who refused to have sex with their Islamic State captors were placed in...
How Americans Came to Die in the Middle East
Craig Cantoni and Mishtalk The writing of this historical synopsis began on Memorial Day. It is an attempt by...
Iraqi Army Begins Operation To Retake Fallujah
Sky News Iraq’s Prime Minister has announced the beginning of a military operation to retake the Islamic State stronghold...
Don’t Worry General, We Trust You
By Ray Starmann Six simple words, “Don’t worry General, we trust you.” During the Gulf War in 1991, General...
British SAS capture 3 Isis chiefs in daring lightning raids as net closes around Mosul
International Business Times British SAS troopers have successfully kidnapped three Islamic State (Isis) chiefs in daring lightning raids in...
Islamic State seeks news blackout in Mosul as Iraqi army nears
Reuters For Iraqis living in the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, news is dwindling about the U.S.-backed army massing...
US Navy SEAL killed by ISIS militants in northern Iraq
Fox News An U.S. Navy SEAL was shot and killed Tuesday by “direct fire” from Islamic State militants who stormed...
ISIS chiefs FREEZE 45 of their own fighters to death after accusing them of cowardice during a battle in Iraq
Daily Mail ISIS have reportedly killed 45 of their own fighters by locking inside a forensic freezer after they attempted...
Isis: Daesh renews chemical attacks on Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq
IBTimes Islamic State (Isis) jihadists have renewed chemical attacks on Kurdish fighters in the last week as allies prepare...
B-52s Make Precision Strikes Against ISIS in Iraq, Syria
Newsmax B-52 bombers are now being used in Iraq and Syria to conduct precision strikes against the Islamic State, Agence...
Iraqi Army’s Offensive Against ISIS Grinding As US Accelerates Military Campaign In Iraq
Western Journalism If we are to believe the statements of Obama administration officials about the war in Iraq, it’s...
Are We Ready to Take Back Mosul from ISIS?
By Newsweek The U.S.-led coalition’s military campaign to “defeat” the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) appears to be going...
The Islamic State’s Scorched-Earth Strategy
By Foreign Policy SINJAR and KIRKUK, Iraq — From the moment Islamic State fighters surged into the Iraqi city...
Iraqi forces face heavy resistance in ISIS held town
By the AP HIT, Iraq (AP) — Heavy resistance has slowed Iraqi forces Tuesday as they pushed toward the...
The Real Status of Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq
By Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell After 13 years of war in Afghanistan – the longest in US history...
Counting Up Obama’s Cataclysmic Foreign Policy Failures
By Commentary Magazine With the Islamic State expanding its reach after two key victories in Ramadi, the capital of...
Terrorizing the Terrorists
By Ray Starmann It’s a good time to be in ISIS. While they’re cleaning up the debris and bagging...
ISIS Knew Just Where to Hit These U.S. Marines
By The Daily Beast It was supposed to be a secret where these 200 Marines were headed. And yet...
Land of the Lost – The Obama Administration vs. ISIS
By Ray Starmann After a year and a half of a failed, worthless, half-hearted air campaign and sporadic, dithering,...
The world is playing rope a dope with Obama
By Ray Starmann Obama is on the ropes, trying to bob and weave, but failing miserably as a litany...
Insult to injury – Russia given the green light by Baghdad to hit ISIS in Iraq
By John O’Hara The Iraqi government in Baghdad has given Russia permission to attack ISIS targets in Iraq. This...
It’s time to take off the gloves and deal a fatal blow to ISIS
By Ray Starmann For the last two years, the Islamic State, better known as ISIS or ISIL, has conquered...
Three things to note from the Delta Force raid in Iraq
By Ray Starmann There are several things to note concerning the Delta Force raid on the ISIS prison in...
After one year, US led air campaign against ISIS a dismal failure
By Carly Jacobsen As suspected by a myriad of military analysts, Operation Inherent Resolve, the desultory US air campaign...
Is Germany heading toward massive civil strife?
By Morris Schaffer Events in Germany seem to be spiraling out of control. The influx of migrants from the...
Bring back the Powell Doctrine
By Ray Starmann The results of the Iraq War, the War in Afghanistan and the failed and half-hearted air...
What Strategy? When art mirrors the situation on the ground in the Middle East
By Ray Starmann The brief clip from the show “Homeland” below shows an intelligence strategy meeting in DC where...
The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
Gian P. Gentile and the NY Journal of Books “The essential point The Endgame misses, however, is what the...
Pax Imperitus: The Decline of American Power under the Obama Administration
By Ray Starmann For over half a century the United States and indeed much of the world has enjoyed...
Go to War in Iraq, Mr. President, or Get Out
Politico As an Iraq vet, I know what it’s like to be part of a hopeless mission in pursuit...
How The United States Lost The Second Iraq War
The Federalist We are losing Iraq for the same reason we lost Vietnam: we are fighting one war, while...
The Iraqi Army No Longer Exists
Defense One The fog of war lies thick over the battlefields of Iraq and Syria. Deliberate enemy deception, willful...
The Fall of Ramadi Would Mean a Devastating Win for ISIS
National Review Home to hundreds of thousands, the Iraqi city of Ramadi may soon fall to the Islamic State....