
On March 20, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) staged a military parade through downtown Fallujah, fuelling speculation that the al-Qaeda splinter group now has total control over the city. On the face of it, this confirms Iraqi
by Jacob Campbell31 Mar 2014, 4:43 AM PST0

Now entering its third month, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s genocidal campaign against his country’s Sunni minority shows no sign of abatement. Indiscriminate airstrikes and shelling by security forces are thought to have displaced more than 400,000 residents of Anbar
by Jacob Campbell4 Mar 2014, 1:36 AM PST0

If Iranian Qods Force commander Qasem Soleimani gets his way (and “the most powerful man in Iraq” usually does), the next attack on Camp Liberty – a tiny compound in Baghdad where roughly 3,000 Iranian dissidents are kept in conditions
by Jacob Campbell18 Feb 2014, 7:39 AM PST0