Gulf News
The risks of withdrawal loom (English)
| Entering a war is easy; getting out of it is the hard part. That axiom is particularly true for the United States today, as it muddles through three wars — two of which were forced upon it (Afghanistan and the "war on terror"), with...
The Daily Telegraph Australia
An American legacy of spilt blood and bitter hatreds (English)
| IN March 2003, as the opening salvos of bombs and missiles rained down on Baghdad, the anger felt by the citizens of Iraq was palpable. | While most were pleased to see the back of the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein, they were apprehensive about wh...
Asia Times
Iraqis uneasy over what happens next (English)
| Sep 3, 2010 Iraqis uneasy over what happens next | By Heather Maher and Charles Recknagel | United States President Barack Obama has kept his promise to draw down the number of US troops in Iraq to fewer than 50,000 by Sept...
Toledo Blade
Taking on two Missions Impossible in the Middle East (English)
PRESIDENT Obama is embarking on something I've never seen before - taking on two Missions Impossible at the same time. That is, a simultaneous effort to heal the two most bitter divides in the Middle East: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Shi...
The Press Democrat
FRIEDMAN: Doubling down on Mideast peace talks (English)
| Yet, if by some miracles the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that open today in Washington do eventually produce a two-state solution, and Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis do succeed in writing their own social contract on how to live together, one might b...
The News & Observer
Improbable and important (English)
| President Barack Obama is embarking on something I've never seen before - taking on two Missions Impossible at the same time. That is, a simultaneous effort to heal the two most bitter divides in the Middle East: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict an...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
U.S. formally begins new era in Iraq (English)
| BAGHDAD -- The United States began a fragile new era in its turbulent history with Iraq on Wednesday, as U.S. political and military leaders marked the official end of combat operations but acknowledged that a difficult milestone, the creation of a...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Thomas L. Friedman: Missions Impossible in the Mideast (English)
| President Barack Obama is embarking on something I've never seen before -- taking on two Missions Impossible at the same time. That is, a simultaneous effort to heal the two most bitter divides in the Middle East: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a...
The State
Friedman: Tackling two impossible missions in the Middle East (English)
| President Barack Obama is embarking on something I've never seen before - taking on two Missions Impossible at the same time. That is, a simultaneous effort to heal the two most bitter divides in the Middle East: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict an...
The Times Of India
'Political deadlock is the main threat now' (English)
WASHINGTON: US spy agencies view political stalemate in Iraq as the biggest threat to security in Iraq as the American military scales back its mission in the country, a senior official said. | Although severely weakened, al-Qaida's branch in Iraq wi...
Irish Times
WMD projects were merely 'in abeyance' (English)
| MARK HENNESSY London Editor | GULF WAR: SADDAM HUSSEIN did not have weapons of mass destruction when the US and Britain invaded in 2003, Tony Blair accepts, but he says Saddam would have done once he had been allowed to escape United Nations sancti...
The Jordan Times
A deadlock that poses risk of divisive and dangerous schemes (English)
| By Michael Jansen | US President Barack Obama marked the formal end of combat operations in Iraq this week as the Iraqi government put its security forces on red alert with the aim of foiling bombings and shootings by insurgents. | On August 25, Ir...
The Jordan Times
The risks of withdrawal (English)
| By Joschka Fischer | Entering a war is easy; getting out of it is the hard part. That axiom is particularly true for the United States today, as it muddles through three wars - two of which were forced upon it (Afghanistan and the “war on terror”),...
Daily Star Lebanon
Madhat al-Mahmood, chief justice of Iraq: Portrait of the judge as hero (English)
| By Chibli Mallat | Thursday, September 02, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | Amid a distinguished group of Federal Supreme Court (FSC) justices, including a Kurd, a Turkoman, and a Christian, at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute colloquium last week, t...
Deccan Chronicle
Obama’s 2 Missions Impossible in W. Asia (English)
--> Obama’s 2 Missions Impossible in W. Asia | Share ARTICLEURL | U.S. President Barack Obama is embarking on something I’ve never seen before — taking on two Missions Impossible at the same time. That is, a simultaneous effort to heal the two ...
Daily Star Lebanon
In the broader Middle East, pulling out is the hardest part (English)
| By Joschka Fischer | Commentary by | Thursday, September 02, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | Entering a war is easy; getting out of it is the hard part. That axiom is particularly true for the United States today, as it muddles through three wars &ndas...
WorldNews.com
The Unraveling of Military Strategies, Thinking and Nations (English)
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | If President Barack Obama was true to his campaign pledge in ending the war in Iraq, he would have delivered his speech on August 19 instead of on August 31. Unlike Canadian soldiers who in 194...
Newsvine
October 2011-- Al Qaeda and Taliban are taking over Iraq and Afghanistan--What does/should Obama do? (English)
| President Barack Obama promised to withdraw all US troops from Iraq by the end of of 2011 and to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan by fall of 2011. By October 2011 there should about 10,000 US troops in Iraq, about 120,000 in Afghanistan. T...
Lexington Herald-Leader
As U.S. combat role ends in Iraq, new commander takes charge (English)
| By Jane Arraf | Christian Science Monitor | BAGHDAD - The United States marked the official end of its combat role in the seven-year Iraq war Wednesday, acknowledging the immense sacrifices of a war that has divided Americans as well as Iraqis and ...
Seattle Times
President Obama's impossible missions: Israeli-Palestinian peace, Sunni-Shiite tolerance (English)
| President Barack Obama is embarking on something I've never seen before - taking on two Missions Impossible at the same time. That is, a simultaneous effort to heal the two most bitter divides in the Middle East: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict an...
Yahoo Daily News
What the U.S. Leaves Behind: An Unstable, Vulnerable Iraq (English)
| When President Obama announced Tuesday night that "Operation Iraqi Freedom is over and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country," he was signaling an end to the military's effort to remake Iraq - or "nation-bu...
m&c
Five killed, six injured amid militant arrests in Iraq (Roundup) (English)
| Mosul/Kirkuk, Iraq - Five people were killed and six injured in a series of attacks in Iraq on Wednesday, which also saw police forces arrest 38 suspected militants, security officials said. | Two policemen were killed and six people injured by a b...
World Security Network
Brazil Superstar? (English)
World Security Network President Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann traveled for three weeks through Brazil, here below the Sugarloaf in Rio de Janeiro: "Brazil contains several risk factors and roadblocks to growth which I believe are very serious, making me mor...
MSNBC
Iraq suffers hot summer amid power problems (English)
| BAGHDAD — There's a running joke in Baghdad this summer — whenever the electricity minister promises to generate more power, it's time to buy more diesel for your private generator. | Despite nearly two years of relative calm in Iraq, a com...
m&c
Iraqi police arrest 18 suspected militants in Kirkuk (English)
| Kirkuk, Iraq - Iraqi police on Wedndesday arrested 18 people suspected of being insurgents and uncovered large ammunition caches in the north of the country, officials said. | Search operations by Iraqi forces and US advisors led to the capture of ...
Real Clear Politics
An Example of Progress in Northern Iraq (English)
| Iraqis and Americans serving together has been the hallmark of Operation Iraqi Freedom in recent years. Long gone are the days of the initial invasion and removal of Saddam Hussein. Today, U.S. Forces (USF) and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) partner t...
MSNBC
Iraq faces new test in handover of last U.S.-run prison (English)
| BAGHDAD — The U.S. military has handed over Tariq Aziz and dozens of other members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle to Iraqi authorities who will assume control Thursday of the last American-run detention facility in the country. | Although t...
Middle East Online
US spies worry about Iraq's political deadlock (English)
US spy agencies view political stalemate in Iraq as the biggest threat to security in Iraq as the American military scales back its mission in the country, a senior official said on Tuesday. | Although severely weakened, Al-Qaeda's branch in Iraq wil...
The Examiner
The question about Iraq the president didn't ask last night (English)
| The president had a tough job last night. He and his cabinet members decided it was important to punctuate American involvement in Iraq. | When he was a candidate for president, Barack Obama promised to bring our combat involvement in Iraq to a clo...
National Post
The Tolls And Trials Of War (English)
 Reuters September 1, 2010 3:04 AM   | No victory celebrations, but yesterday marked the end of seven years of U.S. combat operations in Iraq. | ANALYSIS | "[The] U.S. has no business becoming part of a domestic conflict, which would happen if i...
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