Selected Articles: Update on Iraq
Iraq Invasion – Anniversary of The Biggest Terrorist Attack in Modern History
By Felicity Arbuthnot, March 28 2016
Since terrorism’s tragedy is again in the news, it is timely to revisit perhaps one of the biggest acts of terrorism in modern history – the illegal invasion and destruction – ongoing – of Iraq. March 20th marked the thirteenth…
The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion
By Jason Leopold, March 28 2016
Thirteen years ago, the intelligence community concluded in a 93-page classified document used to justify the invasion of Iraq that it lacked “specific information” on “many key aspects” of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs. But…
The ISIS Chemical Weapons Attack on Civilians in Iraq: an Eyewitness Report on the Aftermath
By Taif Jany, March 24 2016
Within days of the 28th anniversary of the chemical weapons attack on the residents of Halabja in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region – which a 1991 Human Rights Watch investigation called “the single largest chemical weapons attack against a civilian population in…
Attacks on Marine Firebase Reveal Secret US Escalation in Iraq
By Patrick Martin, March 23 2016
Two attacks on a US firebase in northern Iraq, which killed one US Marine and wounded several more, have led to revelations about a substantial escalation of the US military intervention in the war against the Islamic State in Iraq…
Please Don’t Attack Al-Qaeda… Protect the “Moderate Terrorists”…
By Steve Chovanec, March 23 2016
In the weeks leading up to the agreed upon cessation-of-hostilities (CoH) agreement between the US and Russia, it was John Kerry’s diplomacy that was instrumental in “downgrading” the truce from a more forceful and legally binding ‘ceasefire’ agreement to the less intensive ‘cessation-of-hostilities’ now taking effect.
Retreat of Islamic State (ISIS-Daesh) Forces in Syria and Iraq… Towards a Permanent Russian Military Presence in the Middle East
By South Front, March 21 2016
They Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the National Defense Forces (NDF) are continuing operations in the province of Latakia. On Mar.20, the Syrian forces repelled al-Nusra attempts to capture the village of al-Soucha.