Riyadh Mohammed, Fiscal Times: Is This the Beginning of the End of the Islamic State?
Just as the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS is making real progress on the ground, political chaos in Iraq is threatening to undermine those hard-fought gains.
Iraq’s ongoing political crisis is reaching another turning point. This week, several ministries are under siege in Baghdad by demonstrators who are trying to break into the heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the American embassy and the Iraqi national government. Iraq now has a divided parliament with two speakers; one is supported by Shiite demonstrators, the other backed by Sunnis and Kurds.
Meanwhile, U.S. officials are trying to maintain recent momentum. On Monday in Baghdad, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced the deployment of 200 additional U.S. Special Forces to Iraq. He also added Apache helicopters and financial support of $400 million to fund the Iraqi Kurds. Secretary of State John Kerry said in Baghdad a week ago that ISIS’s days are numbered.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials On The War Against The Islamic State
Is Obama Getting Serious About ISIS? -- Max Boot. Commentary
Islamic State has erased the line between foreign and domestic policy -- Nader and Mousavizadeh, Reuters
How Isis shocked the world by capturing Mosul and advancing on Baghdad -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
The Islamic State Is Winning the Away Games -- Eric Schnurer, US News and World Report
What the West really knows about the state of ISIS -- Jonathon Gatehouse, Macleans
Islamic State fighters come from 70 countries, analysis shows -- AFP
We Are Going to War in Iraq Against ISIS -- Fred Kaplan, Slate
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