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Iraq, Islamic State (2011-2019)

ISIS in Iraq as of June 3rd, 2016

— Jun 4, 2016

ISIS in Iraq as of June 3rd, 2016 While most Americans were preoccupied with holiday celebrations in late December 2015, a battle was raging for control of the city of Ramadi, Iraq. Ramadi had been captured by Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/IS) in mid-May of 2015 and went relatively uncontested until late November of that year. In the […]

Iraq, Islamic State (2011-2019), Protests

Iraqi Citizens Storm Green Zone, Parliament

— May 2, 2016

Several days ago, 30 April, frustrated with a lack of reforms and accountability from an increasingly-corrupt government, thousands of Iraqi constituents of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of Baghdad and surrounded the so-called Green Zone. The Green Zone is a fortified part of the capital city that houses the government offices and […]