List of Iraq articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘I Did Not Convert. I Did Not Say Prayers.’
The Yazidis who spent almost six months as captives of the Islamic State only to be suddenly released recount their time as hostages -- and fear for their future.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Abdication of Moral Responsibility
Massacres in Egypt, a rampant Islamic State, and war crimes in Palestine and Israel: How Western inattention to the human rights abuses in the Middle East has given rise to a culture of violence and impunity.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Iraq Wants to Fight the Islamic State. It Has to Fight Falling Oil Prices First.
Baghdad will lose tens of billions of dollars this year because of plunging crude prices. That’s going to weaken its military -- and the rest of the tottering Iraqi government.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 With Islamic State Routed From Kobani, Kurds Eye Mosul
A senior Kurdish official says the Islamic State's defeat in Kobani should smash its aura of invincibility.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Four-Star Critique
Retired military brass contributes to the growing criticism of the Obama administration's handling of foreign policy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Come India Isn’t Speaking Out Against the Islamic State?
Inside India's reluctance to publicly criticize the extremist organization.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Myth of the Terrorist Safe Haven
A pernicious and persistent theory that America’s enemies flourish in foreign sanctuaries -- and that only military means can rout them -- has led us abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Iraqi security: It’s not quite as simple as Colonel Núñez seems to think it is
A response to last week's column.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 White House Gaffe Outs American Held by the Islamic State
The White House routinely asks journalists to refrain from publishing the names of American hostages. A top Obama administration official broke that rule this morning.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beheading of Japanese Citizen Leaves Tokyo With Agonizing Choice
The Islamic State murdered one of its two Japanese hostages. Now, the group is demanding the release of a prisoner for the life of the second.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Stay Scary, America
When it comes to the U.S. response to extremists abroad, it is far better for America to be feared, and to be loved.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The 1 Percent Solution
One percent of ISIS-controlled territory retaken.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 When Is a Body Count Not a Body Count?
The Obama administration claims to have killed 6,000 Islamic State fighters, but the military worries that tallying up the dead will bring up bad memories of the lost war in Vietnam.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The World’s Next Country
The Kurds are on the verge of getting a homeland of their own. If they do, the Middle East will never be the same.
