Islamic State: Australia poised to send additional troops to Iraq for joint training mission with New Zealand soldiers. Posted Sources have told the ABC that a commitment of additional troops, likely to number in the hundreds, is imminent.
It is understood they will be part of a joint Australia and New Zealand mission to train Iraqi soldiers. Niqash - security - Better Pay, Better Weapons: Are Shiite Militias Growing More Powerful Than Iraqi Army? Niqash | Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | 29.01.2015 Troops in northern Iraq man a checkpoint.
Iraq’s unofficial Shiite militias are an essential part of the fight against the extremist Islamic State group. But they act independently of the army, and are sometimes brutally murderous. Army officers now note that the militias have better weapons and better working conditions and that’s why their men are swapping teams. There are no official figures as to how many Iraqis might be fighting with the Shiite Muslim militias, unofficial groups who have taken up arms to oppose the Sunni Muslim extremist group known as the Islamic State. The Clear Banner: French Foreign Fighters in Iraq 2003-2008. The Clear Banner sub-blog on Jihadology.net is primarily focused on Sunni foreign fighting.
It does not have to just be related to the phenomenon in Syria. Zaid Benjamin sur Twitter : "UPDATED: 31 suicide bombers in #Iraq in 45 days 46% of them are Saudis. Over 50 tons of explosives used. Iraq: Don’t Legalize Marriage for 9-Year-Olds. (Baghdad) – Iraq’s Council of Ministers should withdraw a new draft Personal Status Law and ensure that Iraq’s legal framework protects women and girls in line with its international obligations.
The pending legislation would restrict women’s rights in matters of inheritance and parental and other rights after divorce, make it easier for men to take multiple wives, and allow girls to be married from age nine. The draft law, called the Jaafari Personal Status Law, is based on the principles of the Jaafari school of Shia religious jurisprudence, founded by Imam Jaafar al-Sadiq, the sixth Shia imam. Approved by the Council of Ministers on February 25, 2014, it must now be approved by the parliament to become law. Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran - By Shane Harris and Matthew M. Aid. The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus.
But a generation ago, America’s military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating than anything Syria has seen, Foreign Policy has learned. In 1988, during the waning days of Iraq’s war with Iran, the United States learned through satellite imagery that Iran was about to gain a major strategic advantage by exploiting a hole in Iraqi defenses. U.S. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully aware that Hussein’s military would attack with chemical weapons, including sarin, a lethal nerve agent.
Bombs kill more than 30 people across Iraq. Al-Qaeda claims recent Baghdad attacks - Middle East. An al-Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for a coordinated suicide bomb and gun attack on the country's justice ministry last week that killed at least 18 people.
The Iraq Invasion Ten Years Later: A Wrong War. Interviewee: Richard N.
Haass, President, Council on Foreign RelationsInterviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor March 14, 2013 Ten years after the U.S. invasion, the war in Iraq represents "a poor choice poorly implemented," says CFR President Richard N. US ex-defence head Rumsfeld defends Iraq war handling. 3 February 2011Last updated at 17:24 Former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld maintains the US was right to wage war on Iraq Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld remains largely defiant about the Iraq war, saying in a new book that had Saddam Hussein remained in power, the Middle East would be "far more perilous than it is today".
Mr Rumsfeld, 78, has written an autobiography due out next week. Iraq Civilian Deaths Drop to Lowest Level Since 2003. Fewer Iraqi civilians met violent deaths in 2010 than any year since the 2003 U.S. -led invasion, a human rights group reported today. It warned, however, that a persistent, low-level conflict may continue to kill civilians "for years to come. " In its annual report , the Iraq Body Count, a British group that monitors Iraq war deaths, said it counted at least 3,976 civilian deaths in Iraq in 2010 as of Dec. 25. That's 15 percent fewer deaths than in 2009 and the lowest overall yearly toll since the Iraq war began. A President's Memoirs: Ex-Chancellor Schröder Says Bush 'Is Not Telling the Truth' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. Both ex-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and former United States President George W.
Bush have been out of office for some time. But the enmity which they developed for each other while they were in office seems to have survived. In his memoirs, called "Decision Points" and released on Tuesday, Bush writes that Schröder told him in January 2002 that the US president had his full support when it came to his aggressive Iraq policy.
Bush wrote that Schröder indicated he would even stand behind Bush should the US go to war against the country. On Tuesday evening in Berlin, Schröder denied that he ever made such a promise. United States Forces - Iraq.
EXCLUSIVE: WikiLeaks Prepares Largest Intel Leak in US History with Release of 400,000 Iraq War Docs. This is a rush transcript.
Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZALEZ: The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks plans to release the largest cache of classified US documents in history tomorrow. The group is expected to post up to 400,000 intelligence reports on the Iraq war. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is holding a press conference in London on Saturday morning to make the announcement. Iran and Iraq. Michael Eisenstadt The overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime provided Iran with a historic opportunity to transform its traditional Iraqi enemy into a partner or ally. A long, porous border and extensive political, economic, religious and cultural ties provide Iran the potential for significant influence in Iraq. Iranian attempts to wield this influence, however, have often backfired, leading to a nationalist backlash by Iraqis and tensions with the Iraqi government.As the United States withdraws its forces from Iraq, the uncertain security situation will present both risks and opportunities for Iran.
Élections provinciales en Irak : un pas vers la stabilisation ? Dans l’Irak actuel, où la nouvelle Constitution adoptée en 2005 a instauré un régime fédéral, les Conseils régionaux, en attendant de se transformer en véritables gouvernements régionaux, sont dotés d’importants pouvoirs, notamment financiers. Quels sont les enjeux et que signifie les résultats ? L’un des enseignements le plus significatif de ces élections réside dans le retour de la communauté arabe sunnite dans le jeu politique irakien alors qu’elle en fut relativement absente jusqu’à aujourd’hui. En boycottant les précédents scrutins, les sunnites sont restés en quelque sorte sur le quai pour voir passer le train. Effectivement, ces deux ou trois dernières années, on a assisté au développement des provinces du Sud (chiites) et du Nord (kurdes), tandis que les provinces arabes sunnites apparaissaient comme les plus grandes perdantes. Le recul des partis islamistes traditionnels est manifeste également chez les chiites.