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Iraq: Still Too Many Unknown Unknowns

James Denselow | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Obama, Iraq, Military, Usa, Iraq War, Sunni Militias, Sunni Insurgency, Sunnis, World News
James Denselow

If last week's fighting in Baghdad is a precursor of a more violent stand-off to come, then the US may find its smooth exit from the country rudely interrupted.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: Maritime Law, Naval Standoff, Brussels, US Troops, Israel Lobby, Pakistan, World Bank, Pakistan Protests, China, Chas Freeman, Iran, Nato, Economic Cooperation Organization Summit, Mauritania, Us, Zardari, Embassy, Morocco, Missle Launch, Fatah, Palestine, Hamas, Suicide Bombs, Satellite, Biden, Anbar, Ahmadinejad, Cairo, Sunni Insurgency, Afghanistan, Palestinian Unity Talks, Iraq, Prisoner Swap, Pullout, North Korea, Icbm, Fayyad, Foreign Affairs Roundup, Foreign Policy, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan: Yet Another Path to Failure Facts: Pakistan's government arrests hundreds of "dissidents" includi...

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Five Reasons For Hope In Iraq

Time | BOBBY GHOSH / BAGHDAD | Posted 01.02.2009 | World

Read More: Bridge of the Imams, Dog Food in Iraq, Mahdi Army, Reasons for Hope in Iraq, Sunni Insurgency, Recovery in Iraq, Iraq War, War in Iraq, The Green Zone, Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, World News

Bombings and casualties are way down; arrests of militants and the number and confidence of the Iraqi security forces are way up. Most of the addition...

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Buying Time

John Bruhns | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Moqtada Al-Sadr, Troop Withdrawal, Success of the Surge, Maliki, Shiite Militias, Sunni Insurgency, Iraq War, Bush Iraq, Iraq, Politics News
John Bruhns

The fragile success of the surge can be easily reversed. Now the issue is sustaining the current conditions long enough for us to start bringing our troops home.

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Iraq: US Sunni Allies Protest Killings

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Al Queda, Sunni Awakening, Sunni Insurgency, Sunnis, The Great Awakening, Al Quaeda, Politics News

BAGHDAD — An anti-al-Qaida Sunni group announced Saturday it was temporarily withdrawing from its alliance with the American military in protest...

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Attacks Imperil U.S.-Backed Militias in Iraq

NY Times | SOLOMON MOORE and RICHARD A. OPPEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Sunni Militias, Warwire, Success of the Surge, Sunni Insurgency, Concerned Local Citizens, Iraq, War in Iraq, Sunni Awakening, Shiite Militants, Politics News

American-backed Sunni militias who have fought Sunni extremists to a standstill in some of Iraq's bloodiest battlegrounds are being hit with a wave of...

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All Iraqi Groups Blame US Invasion For Discord, Study Shows

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Bush Administration, Warwire, Anbar Province, Sunni Insurgency, George W. Bush, AQI, Al-Qaida, Iraq Civil War, Sunni, Shiite, Al-Qaida in Iraq, Iraq, War in Iraq, Iraq Insurgency, Politics News

Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see t...

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