List of Iraq articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pentagon: U.S. Strike Kills Senior Islamic State Leader in Syria
A drone raid in Syria takes out an Islamic State leader who was in charge of foreign fighters, a day after his brother is killed in Iraq.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Welcome to Basrastan
Iraq’s oil-rich southern province is pulling away from Baghdad's central government. And it's not alone.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 One Year of the Islamic State Caliphate, Mapped
One year after establishing a caliphate, the terrorist group has carried out more than 3,000 attacks.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Activists: Women Accused of Witchcraft Are First Females Beheaded by Islamic State
Human rights activists monitoring Syria's war said Tuesday that two women were beheaded by the Islamic State, a first for the extremists controlling territory in Syria and Iraq.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Driving Iran From the Shadows
How much access will inspectors really have to Iran’s nuclear program?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Spying’s Hard in Iraq, Even Harder in Syria
The CIA's former number two says the United States must rely on its foreign partners for intelligence on the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Maliki ally: Crash of Iraqi F-16 in Arizona done by U.S. in order to send a message
Tom Ricks questions a Maliki ally who thinks the U.S. purposely crashed an Iraqi plane.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Clinton Is Going To Take Fire on Iraq and Benghazi from Democrats, Too
A speech by Democratic presidential contender Martin O'Malley hints Hillary Clinton's own party will attack her on Iraq and Benghazi.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tom gets interviewed about Iraq, twice
Joel Wing asked me a few questions. I also participated in a Politico discussion of who lost Iraq.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy Is the Definition of Insanity
Six theories for why Washington keeps doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Enemy You Know and the Ally You Don’t
Arming Iraq's Sunni militias to fight the Islamic State may seem like a quick fix, but newly declassified documents suggest it might only add fuel to the fire.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 State Department: You Might Want to Rethink Your Vacation to Tikrit
The State Department states the obvious with a travel warning for Iraq.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Terrorists Had a Banner Year in 2014, Killing More Than 30,000
The increase in terrorism's violence comes amid the Islamic State's spread in Iraq and Syria and Boko Haram violence in Nigeria.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Carter: There Aren’t Enough Good Iraqi Recruits to Train to Fight the Islamic State
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter admitted U.S. efforts to train Iraqi troops are falling far too short.
