Jean Marc Mojon and Karim Abou Merhi, Daily Star/AFP: For now, retaking all of Anbar beyond Iraqis’ reach
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi government has announced that its next battle against ISIS is retaking Anbar province, but analysts say entrenched jihadis and limited Iraqi forces put a full reconquest out of reach for now.
Anbar is by far Iraq’s largest province, shares a border with ISIS-held territory in Syria and has historically been a difficult area to control.
Iraqi security forces and allied paramilitaries are on a high after retaking most of Salahuddin province and its capital Tikrit in recent weeks, but those victories will not be easy to replicate.
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 15, 2015
Yemen: ‘Now I've learned first-hand what it's like to be a displaced person’ -- Bushra Aldukhainah, The Guardian
Africa's Next Hegemon: Behind Ethiopia's Power Plays -- Harry Verhoeven, Council on Foreign Relations
Containing China -- Max Boot, Commentary
Can Capitalism Take Off in North Korea? -- Hy-sang Lee, The Diplomat
Can the United States and Russia Jointly Combat Afghan Heroin? -- Franz-Stefan Gady, The Diplomat
Western leaders' snub casts shadow over Russia's lavish Victory Day celebrations -- Shaun Walker, The Guardian
Vladimir Putin’s Secrets and Lies -- Adrian Karatnycky, Newsweek
Putin's Iran Game Bests Obama -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Next move in U.S.-Cuba thaw rests in Havana -- Washington Post
White House Wants to Take Cuba Off the Terrorism List. It’s About Time. -- Joshua Keating, Slate
Obama Says Cuba Doesn’t Sponsor Terrorism. So What Are All These Hijackers and Bomb-Makers Doing There? -- James Kirchick, Daily Beast
Blackwater and the Iraq War Time Warp -- David Graham, The Atlantic
Coming to Terms With American Empire -- George Friedman, Stratfor
150 years after the assassination, when will we recover from Lincoln’s death? -- James Braxton Peterson, Reuters
Google Runs Afoul of European Values -- Noah Feldman, Bloomberg
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