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BAGHDAD, IRAQ—When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraq’s population was 26 million; today, it is approaching 48 million. Any visit to Iraq...
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Key Points and Summary – Israel has a long and consistent history of launching preemptive military strikes to destroy the nuclear programs of hostile...
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Key Points and Summary: Prospects for US-Iran diplomatic talks appear doomed to fail as President Trump’s “bottom line” for a deal—the complete dismantling of...
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Key Points – The Iranian regime’s “extreme hubris,” born from decades of surviving revolution, a grueling war with Iraq, and successfully sponsoring regional proxies,...
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The Kurds often quip they have “no friends but the mountains,” an allusion to how both neighbors and great powers victimize them. This may...
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Will Iraq Take Over “Resistance”? Is Baghdad Ready? Israel’s strike on Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s long-time leader, left a void at the group’s top. While...
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Crises often define presidential legacies. Jimmy Carter had the Iran hostage crisis, Bill Clinton the Balkans, George W. Bush the September 11 terror attacks,...
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Planned Withdrawal from Iraq is Gift to Iran, Islamic State: Iraqi Defense Minister Thabit al-Abbasi has said then United States and Iraq have reached...
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On August 28, 2024, journalists exposed a wiretapping scandal that the Iraqi Intelligence Service apparently disrupted. Iraqi security officials arrested seven suspects, several of...