#IRAQ

Benjamin M. Ingram

NotoriousBMI

strong piece:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/its-not-september-12-anymore/609502/ i will say that it's wild to me whenever i encounter the idea/people who bought fully into govt rationale behind our 9/11 response. like, i get it

Gregory Brew

gbrew24

The goal of the Carter Doctrine: maintain access to Persian Gulf oil, prevent the rise of a regional power hostile to the US. According to those criteria, the doctrine has

Alia Awadallah

aawadall

The Fourth of July feels very different to me today than it did growing up as a first generation Arab American in the Iraq war era. In light of the

Local Observer مراقب محلي

Observer46664

I am not an expert on anything outside of my academic field of expertise so I am weighing in on this as an average Baghdadi citizen: I feel like PM

Jacqueline

lacelioness

OMG I had no idea who this was but I was digging the beat and how in sync it was. I found out it's Iraq. شاهد تدريب العمليات الخاصة احد

kurdistani

WolfieBabiee

Kurdistan map 1892Iraq was founded 1932Turkey founded 1923Syria founded 1945Iran founded 1935 Physical Map of Kurdistan, prepared by Maunsell in 1892. This

Saket Gokhale

SaketGokhale

Exclusive:The Modi govt has been handing major defense contracts & technology to a favorite Nagpur-based firm. What's shocking is that they're doing this despite knowing that the company's explosives were

Polla Garmiany ☀️

PollaGarmiany

The amount of racism, especially state-sponsored racism & discrimination, Kurds face in the Middle East is unmatched. From the ban of language and culture, to the denial of basic civil

TurkeyDayNeville 🇯🇲🇺🇸

FormerlyCBM

I'm fired up today, so I'm not putting up with apologetic horseshit. Start treating the President like the grown man he is and not like your two-year old at home

Gerald Butts 🇨🇦🖐🧼🤚

gmbutts

Funny. Last time I read Harper in the Wall Street Journal he was arguing for making government big enough to join George W. Bush's war in Iraq.https://twitter.com/TrueNorthCentre/status/1260556147972440065 Joking aside, the

bunny🐰

bxnnie0

Who are the Kurds? [A THREAD] They are indigenous to a mountain region in the northern Middle East. The Kurds are the largest stateless nation in the world and the

Brad Duplessis

DuplessisBrad

Remembering many this #MemorialDay2020 weekend—all will be carried with me until the end of my days. 2LT Rich Torres (L) was KIA in Iskandariyah, Iraq on 06 Oct 2003. I

Donna Leist

leist_donna

I have been digging and found that a Nazi who posed as a diplomat, unified Germany, became a founding father of the EU and Central Bank EU and was instrumental

Zach Dorfman

zachsdorfman

After 9/11, the U.S. shook the world: invading and occupying Afghanistan and Iraq; straining alliances and creating new ones; torturing; hunting terrorists to the ends of the earth; new, capacious

Michael Knights

Mikeknightsiraq

See my new @CTCWP piece with @AlexMello02, which "cuts" 18 months of ISIS attack data from Iraq (Q4 2018 to Q1 2020 inclusive) to underline a strong, sustained recovery across

Abbie Bennett

AbbieRBennett

Today we're publishing a story I began working on months ago. It was held up for many reasons -- most recently the #COVID19 pandemic. We struggled with whether to release