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Iraq - U.S. withdrawal and the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL): In November 2008 an agreement that determined a timetable for the final withdrawal of U.S. forces, which had been under negotiation for nearly a year, was approved by the Iraqi parliament. Under that agreement, U.S. troops were scheduled to leave the cities and towns by mid-2009, and withdrawal from the country was set to be completed in early 2012. In February 2009 newly elected U.S. Pres. Barack Obama ...
Jan 25, 2022 · Jan. 25, 2022. BAGHDAD, Iraq — An audacious attack on a prison housing thousands of former ISIS fighters in Syria. A series of strikes against military forces in neighboring Iraq. And a horrific ...
Jul 28, 2022 · More than three years after its military defeat in Iraq and Syria, ISIS is a downgraded threat thanks to the collective efforts of the U.S.-led global coalition that coalesced to defeat it along with Iraqi and Syrian partners. While the extremist group’s capacity has been drastically reduced and millions of people have returned home, ISIS has managed to continue attacks year after year despite no longer holding territory. Meanwhile, some of the most difficult human legacies — the ...
In December 2021, the New York Times, examining the Pentagon’s own records, found that the US military’s bombing of Iraq in its fight against ISIS led to “the deaths of thousands of ...
Nov 1, 2023 · 7.4.1 The below table was compiled by CPIT and shows the number of security events that took place in Iraq between 1 January 2022 and 8 July 2022 (the latest data available at the time of writing ...
ISIS–K is a prolific producer of propaganda, outdone only by the Islamic State's core in Iraq and Syria. ISIS–K publishes and circulates a variety of materials through the al-Azaim Media Foundation ( Arabic : مؤسسة العزائم , romanized : Muasasat al-A'zayim ) for Media Production, whose status as an official element of ISIS–K experts disagree on as the group has yet to claim or disclaim them.
See: Al-Hamid, R., ISIS in Iraq: Weakened, but Agile, May 2021, Newlines Institute, online. resulted in a death toll of 107 in the month leading up to the October 2021 Iraqi parliamentary elections. IS also took advantage of worsening CT coordination and lower CT activity after the elections, while Iraq’s political elites focused on
