Arab World
Why Are the Islamic State’s Commanders so Much Better than the Iraqi Army?
BY PAUL MCLEARY MAY 26, 2015 Source Link Shiite militias and Iraqi government forces have started to move into place around the Islamic State-held c…
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From Minneapolis to ISIS: An American’s Path to Jihad
By SCOTT SHANE MARCH 21, 2015 Abdi Nur, right, posted a photo online from Syria. A friend, Abdullahi Yusuf, left, was stopped as he tried to depart.…
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DEMPSEY: DOES IRAQ HAVE A POLITICAL FUTURE?
Ryan Evans July 26, 2014 Source Link At the Aspen Security Forum on Friday, General Martin E. Dempsey opened his remarks with a joke : “Some of you i…
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Assessing a Deal or Non-deal with Iran
By Anthony H. Cordesman NOV 20, 2014 http://csis.org/publication/assessing-deal-or-non-deal-iran The Critical Issue of Iran’s Progress in Weapons R…
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Sunni Militants Drive Iraqi Army Out of Mosul
Source Link By SUADAD AL-SALHY Jun 2014 A Kurdish security officer stood guard as families fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul waited at…
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Simulating war with Hezbollah, IDF looks to avoid past mistakes
By JUDAH ARI GROSS September 12, 2017 https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-mock-war-with-hezbollah-idf-looks-to-avoid-past-mistakes/ After war games w…
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