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'who Lost Iraq' Debate Fails To Get Traction

Monday, November 07, 2011

Two weeks after President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of all remaining U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of next month, a familiar clutch of neo-conservative hawks and prominent Republicans are blaming the president for 'losing' the Middle Eastern country to its neighbour and long-time Washington nemesis, Iran.

As U.S. Exits Iraq, 'endgame' In Afghanistan Remains Elusive

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Washington's failure to gain Iraqi approval for a significant U.S. military presence in that country beyond December could make it harder for Afghanistan to agree to a similar deployment beyond 2014.

U.S.-Iraq: Obama Confirms Full Withdrawal by Christmas

Friday, October 21, 2011

In a decision promptly denounced by Republicans, President Barack Obama announced here Friday that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the Christmas holidays in late December.

Turkish Troops Enter Iraq After Pkk Attacks

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Turkish forces have launched an incursion into the mountains of northern Iraq following simultaneous attacks by Kurdish separatists in southeastern Turkey that killed at least 26 soldiers.

U.S. Hawks Behind Iraq War Rally For Strikes Against Iran

Monday, October 17, 2011

Key neo-conservatives and other right-wing hawks who championed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq are calling for military strikes against Iran in retaliation for its purported murder-for-hire plot against the Saudi ambassador here.

U.S. Officials Peddle False Intel To Support Terror Plot Claims

Monday, October 17, 2011

Officials of the Barack Obama administration have aggressively leaked information supposedly based on classified intelligence in recent days to bolster its allegation that two higher- ranking officials from Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were involved in a plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir in Washington, D.C.

To Be Black In Iraq

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

'Before being deployed to Iraq I never thought I’d come across people who physically resemble my friends and family back in Buffalo,' says U.S. marines sergeant William Collins on a rare patrol around Basra’s Zubeir district.

To Be Black In Iraq

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

'Before being deployed to Iraq I never thought I’d come across people who physically resemble my friends and family back in Buffalo,' says U.S. marines sergeant William Collins on a rare patrol around Basra’s Zubeir district.

Iranians In Iraqi Camp To Seek Refugee Status

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

In a development that could help resolve an eight-year-old diplomatic and humanitarian standoff, the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group that has several thousand adherents at a military camp in Iraq, has agreed to allow residents to apply for refugee status and be interviewed individually by U.N. officials.

U.S.: Iraq Intelligence Failures Cast Shadow Over Iran Assessment

Friday, September 16, 2011

As the George W. Bush administration built the case for war with Iraq in the early 2000s, press accounts picked up bits of leaked intelligence that described a weapons of mass destruction threat from then president Saddam Hussein. But once the U.S. military entered Iraq, they found nothing.

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