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In Struggle for National Identity, Iraqis Rally Around Many Flags
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Arango takes a look back at the history of Iraq- the 400 years of Ottoman rule and the role of Gertrude Bell in defining Iraq's current borders under British rule. Saddam Hussein, Maliki and Islamic State pitted Sunnis against Shiites and Sunnis against Kurds for the last 40 years, leavig a divided country. The current effort to put Iraq together as a country with different faiths and communities under prime minister Abadi will take many years after so much bloodshed. Northern Ireland shows that it can be done after much pain and loss, when all realize putting the past behind is the only way forward.
Haider Al-Abadi, prime minister of Iraq on progress made towards national reconciliation between Shia, Sunni, Kurds and tribes in 2014-2015
12/15/2014
Al-Abadi focusses on actions to remove the discontent that has helped the Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.
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The Kurdish deputy prime minister says centralization is not the way forward and much of the toxic nature of the Maliki regime is now gradually being undone.
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The insurgency in Iraq in 2014 against the Maliki government's sectarian policies- the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria
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Mosul on the border with Syria is taken by the insurgents ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) who operate on the Syrian side against Assad. Mosul is Iraq's second largest city with different ethnic groups. Foreign fighters operating in Syria have joined the ISIS. Maliki had lost support in Mosul with his increasingly sectarian policies favoring Shiites and marginalizing Sunnis. The Iraqi forces lack training and are poorly organized compared to the insurgents fighting the Assad regime in Syria. The U.S. lost any chance of maintaining peace in the region with policies of the Obama administration distancing itself in Iraq, Syria and towards Iran's non-sectarian democracy movement. With moderates left in the cold in the region, sectarian influences are taking control and undoing the hard work of previous administrations. The hopes of the heavily young demographic oriented Middle East region in 2011-2012 for economic progress are now fading first into religious extremism and then into sectarian religious conflict, with Putin's government in Russia allowed by the Obama administration to pursue reckless policies in Syria against the interests of people in the region. A no fly zone or action of the kind taken in Libya at very small cost to the U.S. was not taken by U.S. president Obama. The failed reelection bid of Sarkozy in France left Britain's prime minister Cameron with no allies to pursue prudent policies in Syria that would have advanced democracy and economic development in the entire region.
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Sunni Fighters Gain as They Battle 2 Governments, and Other Rebels
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Efforts to establish an autonomous Kurdish region in Syria, Iraq's Kurdish Autonomous region, and Turkey
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The developments in Kurdish parts of Syria as the Kurds in Iraq and Syria work to promote a similiar autonomous region for Kurds in Syria, based on the model set by the Autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq headquartered in Erbil.
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Getting it right in Iraq in 2014-2015- Ali Khedery on Haider al-Abadi, the Dawa Party, Iran's influence in Iraq, and Iraq's tangled tortuous politics
08/15/2014
Khedery who has observed first hand the problems in Iraq, the corruption, sectarianism and the misrule of Hussein and Maliki, says it will take a change of heart in Iran, a new tolerance for different religious faiths and opinion, and good honest leadership, to turn things around. All of which are today difficult to find, making this Iraq's last chance to be an independent state. He provides a view from inside Iraq that American political and military leaders talk only in sparing terms- the enormous mistakes of Hussein, followed by Maliki and Iran, including the war in Syria, that have happened in the last 40 years. Compare this with the view presented by a military advisor such as Gen. James Jones in the WSJ calling for action in Iraq to prevent a ISIS terrorist state in the Middle East.
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Iraqi opinion on the way forward in 2015 after the Maliki government's sectarian divisions
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Reconciliation and new coalitions among the religious factions in Iraq ahead of elections.
01/29/2009
Something amazing but more due to the fact that the public is growing tired of religious faction based politics, is the reaching across faction lines to form new coalitions starting with Mr. Maliki the prime minister. Even former insurgents are joining with groups they previously opposed. Iraq and efforts for sectarian unity as American withdrawal approaches.
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Senators warn Obama that Maliki may be leading Iraq back toward civil war - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10/30/2013
The Iraqi Prime Ministerâs Plea to Americans
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We Iraqis Need Equality, Not Apaches
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Shift to new prime minister and president in Iraq as confidence in Maliki collapses
07/25/2014
Faoud Massoum, a Kurdish leader, is selected as new president of Iraq in July 2014, as the process of selecting a new president begins.
Grouped Articles
Iraq Parliament Chooses New President, as Rebel Attack Kills 60
Wall Street Journal 07/25/2014
Iraq Crisis: Nouri al-Maliki Quits
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With Maliki Out of the Picture, U.S. Prepares to Boost Iraq Aid
Wall Street Journal 08/16/2014
How to Save Iraq and Honor American Sacrifice
Wall Street Journal 08/15/2014
New York Times 08/15/2014
Facing Militants With Supplies Dwindling, Iraqi Soldiers Took to Phones
New York Times 09/26/2014
Iraq's Kurdistan region and the invasion by ISIS in August 2014, the Kurdish U.S. backed response in 2015
08/14/2014
Iran and the U.S. aid the Peshmerga forces to push the ISIS Islamic state militants out of Kurdistan. Maliki steps down as prime minister and a new prime minister who would appeal to both Shia and Sunnis takes over. The failure of Maliki to bring national reconciliation and build a strong national military comprised of Shia and Sunni with the help of the U.S. leads to the collapse of Mosul. The situation with a badly trained and poorly organized Iraqi military and poorly equiped Peshmerga leads to the general collapse as Sunni ISIS militants in Syria push into Iraq in 2014. U.S. airstrikes help prevent the fall of Erbil, capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region. France moves to aid Kurdistan as the EU fails to come up with a response. By 2015 the situation changed, with U.S. led airstrikes the Kurds had taken Sinjar from ISIS. an agreement.
Grouped Articles
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Wall Street Journal 08/14/2014
With Maliki Out of the Picture, U.S. Prepares to Boost Iraq Aid
Wall Street Journal 08/16/2014
How to Save Iraq and Honor American Sacrifice
Wall Street Journal 08/15/2014
U.S. Widens Air Campaign in Northern Iraq
Wall Street Journal 08/18/2014
Islamic State Fills Coffers From Illicit Economy in Syria, Iraq
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How Kurds Came to Play Key Role in U.S. Plans to Combat Islamic State
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