Iraq

The Iraqi Insurgency The Iraqi Insurgency that followed the second Gulf War has taken more American and Coalition combat lives than the actual war. Tactics including beheadings, kidnapping, murder, intimidation and not to mention the non ending onslaught of road side bombs that have killed and severely injured so many allied forces trying to restore...
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Iraq War: Iraqi Freedom 2003 Iraq after Desert Storm After Coalition troops routed Iraq in the 1991 war. The international community agreed to maintain a policy of containment of the Iraqi regime headed by Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. No fly zones were established in the Northern part of Iraq to protect the Kurds and a second...
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Iraq War: Desert Storm Why Iraq invaded Kuwait During the Iraq-Iran War, which was waged from 1980 until 1988, Kuwait had heavily funded Iraq’s military. By the time the war ended, Iraq was not in a financial position to repay the approximately $14 billion which it had borrowed from Kuwait to finance its war. Kuwait’s was...
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Mullah Krekar the leader of Ansar al-Islam. He has been given refuge from arrest by Norway. Ansar al-Islam: a.k.a. Ansar al-Sunnah Partisans of Islam,Helpers of Islam, Kurdish Taliban Back Ground Information Ansar al-Islam (AI) is a radical Islamist group of Iraqi Kurds and Arabs who have vowed to establish an independent Islamic state in Iraq. The...
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Story Originally Published April 2008 Al-Sadr And His Militia Who is Muqtada al-Sadr? If you read the newspaper or listen to television news reports at all you have probably heard the name of Muqtada al-Sadr. He is an extremely bold young Shiite militia leader that has been the focus of the U.S. and Iraqi government struggle to...
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