Maliki’s Mettle
What’s at stake in the battle of Basra.
What’s at stake in the battle of Basra.
Even if American and Iraqi forces are able to eliminate Al Qaeda in Iraq, there are still three worrisome possibilities of new forms of fighting that could divide Iraq and deny the United States any form of “victory.”
It was bound to happen and may well be happening right now: a war between the Islamic Republic in Iran and the new Iraq.
The Iraqi government’s battle against Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi army in Basra is playing in the U.S. as a blow to progress in the war over the last year. But…
One day after fighting between the Iraqi government and Shi’ite militias escalated alarmingly, anti-American militia chieftain Moqtada al-Sadr extended an olive branch.
With the fifth day of fighting in Baghdad, Basrah and the South completed, the Mahdi Army has suffered major losses over the past 36 hours.
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