List of Iraq articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is It Possible to Defeat ISIS Ideology With Committee Reports?
The United Kingdom and the UAE announced two very different approaches on Monday to tackling violent extremism.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will Curbing Iran’s Nuclear Threat Boost Its Proxies?
Tehran's allies in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen could reap the benefits of Iran's nuclear deal with world powers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 For Iraqi Forces, A Long Way Back to Ramadi
Iraqi leaders launched an offensive to recapture Ramadi. And the plodding Iraqi Army faces another test.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Are the Shootings in Chattanooga Terrorism?
What Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez did in Chattanooga is horrible. But is it terrorism?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Updated: Stallone Will Not Take on the Islamic State in New Movie
Iraqi armed forces, even with extensive support from Iran and the United States, have mostly failed to achieve meaningful victories against the Islamic State. But what armies have failed to accomplish, one man is set to achieve on the big screen.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Number of Syrian Refugees Passes 4 Million
Five years into Syria's civil war, the number of refugees has surpassed 4 million.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Massacre So Bloody It Could Be Seen From Space
On Wednesday, 24 men were sentenced to death for last June's massacre in Tikrit, Iraq. In the days after the slaughter, Human Rights Watch used satellite images to document the violence.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beating the Islamic State Won’t Fix Iraq
The country's extremist problem goes way beyond ISIS. And unless the state fixes its governance troubles, it will have to fight this war all over again.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mapped: The Islamic State’s Territorial Losses and the Beginning of a United Kurdistan
Kurdish forces, with the backing of U.S. airpower, have inflicted a series of defeats on Islamic State troops.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Carter: ‘Awfully Small Number’ of Syrian Rebels Being Trained by U.S.
Defense Secretary offers no explanation for why the number of Syrians being trained appears to be shrinking.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A missing part of the Iraq war
An astute reader pointed out in an e-mail to me in July that the U.S. military has never released much information about the decisions to pay money to the Iraqi Sunni insurgents during the Surge, or how much was paid and where the money wound up.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 5 Questions Obama Should Have Been Asked About the Islamic State Fight — but Wasn’t
President Barack Obama went over to the Pentagon to get answers. But lots of questions remain over the fight with the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 RIP, Jim Frederick
A summer reading recommendation from Tom Ricks.
