WarAll conflicts are different, even those relatively closely related in space and time. It has been not quite a quarter century since the end of the Iraq-Iran War and a year since the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq after Operations Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and New Dawn, and although ...
In the wake of the strike, joint US-Iraqi operations against ISIS were put on hold, and Iraq’s caretaker prime minister said a US troop withdrawal was the only way to “protect all those on Iraqi soil,” though this week he said that decision would be up to the next government. But...
(ĭ-rän′, ĭ-răn′, and ī-răn′), with analogous variants forIraq.In our 2014 Usage Ballot, most Panelists personally preferred (ĭ-rän′), but a large majority considered both (ĭ-rän′) and (ĭ-răn′) acceptable. The same was true forIraq.Panelists were ...
Operations and Threats against Journalists Abroad The Islamic Republic’s war on journalists extends beyond Iran’s borders. The most prominent examples of this include the cases of Ruhollah Zam, Voice of America’s Masih Alinejad, Iran International, and BBC Persian. ...
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IRIB said military drills, part of annual events held in Iran to mark the beginning of the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, are centered in the Oshnavieh border region. The war game, described as a "security drill" and code-named Muharram, is being held under the supervision of the IRGC's Ha...
the operation was being directed from within the White House by the NSC—the president's advisory cabinet on security affairs and covert operations. Directing the Iran-Contra enterprise were Vice Admiral John Poindexter, national security assistant, and his subordinate, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North,...
He said "additional planes" were sent to the region as part of operations already under way in Iraq and Syria. Had Iran's attack on Israel been successful, the "fallout for regional stability would be hard to overstate", Mr Sunak added. ...
It began when Syria supported Iran in the Iran-Iraq War back in 1980 to spite Saddam Hussein. But these days the partnership has become so unequal it is more like a master/slave relationship, one of total dependence. Since the 2011 Syrian uprising the Iranian government has been maintaining ...
(24.) John Prados, Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II throughIranscam(New York: William Morrow, 1986), 357-67; Cannon, President Reagan, 322-23,789; Scott, Deciding to Intervene, 60-63.