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Showing posts with label ISIS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISIS. Show all posts
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Obama's New AUMF Lacks Much Needed Oomph

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Yesterday, in a letter  to the United States Congress, President Obama formally requested an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

House of Kurds: ISIS-Kurdish Fighting Threatens Turkey’s Stability

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Intense fighting between ISIS and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters over the past month for control of the strategic city of Kobani on the Tu...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

ISIS, Kohrasan, and America's Begrudging March Towards War

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It's been a long week. I wrote two weeks ago about President Obama's new foray into intervention in Iraq, using airstrikes to wea...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Obama’s Foreign Policy: A Legacy of Interventionism

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My colleague Colin Wolfgang recently wrote about Pres. Obama’s speech last Wednesday, in which the president announced that US airstrikes w...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

ISIS' Miscalculation

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Yesterday marked another tragic step in the story of the Islamic State, which has captivated news outlets as it expands its self-proclaimed ...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Rewriting History in the Middle East: The Yazidis [No Longer] in Iraq

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State borders in the Middle East have been in flux for millennia, with the strongest ruler of the day vying for control over fertile land...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Part 2: From Anbar to Aleppo and Back Again

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The most recent violence in Iraq did not appear suddenly, as if from nowhere. It’s been brewing since the US troop withdrawal in 2011, and ...
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