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The Washington Free Beacon 10/29/2014 On Tuesday evening, PBS’s Frontline aired the new documentary “The Rise of ISIS”, which detailed its investigation into the “miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS”. The documentary included interviews with key Obama administration officials and experts. Frontline’s Ken Pollak interviewed the Former American Ambassador to Iraq James […] October 29th, 2014 | Tags: Fallujah, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), James Jeffrey, Kenneth Pollak, Michael Yon, Mosul, Nouri al-Maliki, PBS "Frontline", Ramallah | Category: Barack Obama, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Military, National Security, terrorism | Comments are closed
AP via CBS News 8/10/2014 BAGHDAD – Kurdish forces retook two towns from Sunni militants Sunday a senior Kurdish military official said. The seizure of the towns was one of their first victories after weeks of retreating from the growing militant threat in Iraq. The Kurds were helped by a fourth round of American airstrikes […] August 10th, 2014 | Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Gaza, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Kurds, Nouri al-Maliki, Peshmerga, weapons, Yazidi | Category: France, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Military | Comments are closed
Michael Barone The Washington Examiner 7/6/2014 Here’s a shocking story from American adviser Ali Khedery on how the Obama administration leaders kept Nouri al-Maliki as prime minister of Iraq, and how that has led to the apparent breakup of Iraq today. Khedery, the son of Iraqi immigrants to the United States, is fluent in Arabic […] July 7th, 2014 | Tags: Adel Abdul Mahdi, Ali Khedery, Anthony Blinken, Christopher Hill, Gen. David Petraeus, Nouri al-Maliki, Ryan Crocker, Vice President Joe Biden | Category: Barack Obama, Elections, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Islam, Politics, religion | Comments are closed
Obama Regime: “Too Politically Sensitive” To Evacuate Our Embassy Nickarama Weasel Zippers 6/13/2014 According to Fox, the Obama regime doesn’t at this point intend to evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, despite the fact that ISIS is within 70 miles of Baghdad, because it is “too politically sensitive to do so”. In addition to those […] June 13th, 2014 | Tags: 'Arab Spring', al Qaeda, Baghdad, Balad Air Base, Caliphate, golf, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Mosul, Nouri al-Maliki, Shariah Law | Category: Barack Obama, Glenn Beck, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Military, terrorism, Video | Comments are closed
Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt The New York Times 6/11/2014 WASHINGTON — As the threat from Sunni militants in western Iraq escalated last month, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secretly asked the Obama administration to consider carrying out airstrikes against extremist staging areas, according to Iraqi and American officials. But Iraq’s appeals for military […] June 11th, 2014 | Tags: al Qaeda, Baghdad, beheading, drones, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Michael Yon, Mosul, Nouri al-Maliki, Syria | Category: Barack Obama, Iraq, Middle East, Military, terrorism | Comments are closed
BBC News 10 June 2014 More than 150,000 people have been forced to flee Iraq’s second city of Mosul after Islamist militants effectively took control of it. Troops were among those fleeing as hundreds of jihadists from the ISIS group overran it and much of the surrounding province of Nineveh. Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki […] June 10th, 2014 | Tags: al Qaeda, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Kurdistan, Mosul, Nouri al-Maliki, refugees | Category: Iraq, Islam, Middle East, terrorism, United Nations | Comments are closed
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