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Security In Iraq Jul 15-21 2019
(Shafaaq News) Attacks in Iraq have returned to pre-Revenge of the Levant levels in July. That means they are back in the teens raising...
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Dr. Michael Izady of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs recently gave an interview to the Swiss-based International Relat...
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US Provincial Reconstruction Team in Basra 2010 (Alamy) James Savage is a Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He wrote... -
(Iraqi News) The Islamic State appeared to enter into a new phase of its rebuilding in October 2018. First, during the winter of 2017 t...
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What, exactly, is freak about it?
I spent 14 days in June 2008 in Tikrit waiting for a clear day to fly home on leave.
Combination of long-term regional persistent droughts, poor agricultural soil controls, and just plain bad weather conditions.
The Baghdad pics are never as bad as in the Tikrit, where you see the red wall marching toward you, and a complete red-out once it arrives.
Iraq is clay, not sand, so the usual term is dust storm. Census records from the 1950s-1970s tracked the days of dust storm obliteration--usually a few every year. Very different in recent times.
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