Sunnis

Iraq Looking for an ‘Independent’ Sunni Defense Minister

By Barbara Slavin

Iraqi President Fouad Massoum said this past week that the government was looking for an independent Sunni Muslim to fill the post of defense minister in an effort to improve chances of reunifying the country and defeating the group that calls itself the Islamic State (IS). Massoum, in his first extended comments to a U.S. audience since […]

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OPINION: ISIS Primarily a Threat to Arab Countries

By Emile Nakhleh

Emile Nakhleh is a research professor at the University of New Mexico, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of “A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America’s Relations with the Muslim World.”

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OPINION: Islamic State in Iraq: Confronting the Threat

By Emile Nakhleh

The Islamic State’s territorial expansion and barbaric executions in Iraq and Syria are a gathering threat and must be confronted. American air bombardment, however, is the wrong course of action, and will not necessarily weaken ISIS or DA’ISH, as it’s known in Arabic. As a senator, President Barack Obama called George W. Bush’s intervention in […]

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Neo-Cons, Hawks Can’t Get No Iraq Traction

By Jim Lobe

U.S. soldiers in Basra, Iraq. Credit: PEOSoldier/CC-BY-2.0

Despite their ubiquity on television talk shows and newspaper op-ed pages, neo-conservatives and other hawks who propelled the U.S. into war in Iraq 11 years ago are falling short in their efforts to persuade the public and Congress that Washington needs to return. Indeed, in contrast to the uncritical position taken by virtually all of […]

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Iraq Looking for an ‘Independent’ Sunni Defense Minister

OPINION: ISIS Primarily a Threat to Arab Countries

OPINION: Islamic State in Iraq: Confronting the Threat

Neo-Cons, Hawks Can’t Get No Iraq Traction

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News and Views from the Global South

Sunnis

Iraq Looking for an ‘Independent’ Sunni Defense Minister

OPINION: ISIS Primarily a Threat to Arab Countries

OPINION: Islamic State in Iraq: Confronting the Threat

Neo-Cons, Hawks Can’t Get No Iraq Traction

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