The US will still “maintain a presence” after troop pullout from NE Syria
Following the backlash from President Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from NE Syria, senior administration officials Friday night, Dec.
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Key Kurdish-held border crossing falls to Iranian control, cuts US army land supply line to Syria
The Iraqi army and Shiite Hashd Shaabi Brigades militias under Iranian Revolutionary Guards command seized the strategically important northern Iraqi-Syrian
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Kurdistan’s Barzani faces ouster. Iraqi army poised to seize KRG airfields
Iraq’s PM launches an operation to free Anbar from ISIS. DEBKAfile: It is Stage II of the Kurdish campaign for
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Iraqi officers land in Syria, stir Israeli concern
Israeli security chiefs were gravely concerned Wednesday, May 17, when they learned that a high-ranking Iraqi military delegation had arrived
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New ISIS mobile tactics against US in Syria, Iraq
It is important to get the spate of reported successes by US-backed forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria, Iraq
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ISIS Upbeat after New Tactic Slows US Military Assault on Mosul
As US and Iraqi forces batter the Islamists holding out in the Old City of Mosul month after month, their
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Mosul offensive folds, waiting now for Trump
The failue of the US-backed Iraqi army offensive to liberate Mosul – nine weeks after it began – could no longer
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As the Mosul Offensive Peters out, ISIS Poises for Its Comeback
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi marked the sixth week of the offensive to recover Mosul from the Islamic State with
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ISIS Plots Full-Scale Offensives in Iraq, Jordan to Preempt Trump Takeover
If Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi acts on the advice of the Iraqi ex-generals at his side, the Islamic State is preparing
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The US-Led Coalition’s Advance on Mosul Lags Way behind Schedule
The progress made by the US-led Iraqi-Kurdish forces in their three-week advance on ISIS-held Mosul was commended Sunday night, Nov.
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