The Tsar is evil and the Russian people revolt only to have the revolution co opted by communists who make things worse and kill tens of millions of Russians
The Arab dictators suck. The people revolt only to have the revolution taken over by Caliphate fans who makes things worse and would love to kill tens of millions.
At this point our interest is served by having strong men kill the Islamists. That's why Putin won't get rid of Assad now
The Arab Spring turned to winter Thank Allah Egypt's military undid Obama's support of the Muslim Brotherhood
Might as well not even topple the dictators after all.
Something about abundance, not that this bored would know anything about that.
The Tsar is evil and the Russian people revolt only to have the revolution co opted by communists who make things worse and kill tens of millions of Russians
The Arab dictators suck. The people revolt only to have the revolution taken over by Caliphate fans who makes things worse and would love to kill tens of millions.
At this point our interest is served by having strong men kill the Islamists. That's why Putin won't get rid of Assad now
The Arab Spring turned to winter Thank Allah Egypt's military undid Obama's support of the Muslim Brotherhood
Might as well not even topple the dictators after all.
Something about abundance, not that this bored would know anything about that.
We did topple Saddam to the squeals of horror among the left. And we had a country under control with minimal troops just like Europe and Asia.
The Tsar is evil and the Russian people revolt only to have the revolution co opted by communists who make things worse and kill tens of millions of Russians
The Arab dictators suck. The people revolt only to have the revolution taken over by Caliphate fans who makes things worse and would love to kill tens of millions.
At this point our interest is served by having strong men kill the Islamists. That's why Putin won't get rid of Assad now
The Arab Spring turned to winter Thank Allah Egypt's military undid Obama's support of the Muslim Brotherhood
Might as well not even topple the dictators after all.
Something about abundance, not that this bored would know anything about that.
We did topple Saddam to the squeals of horror among the left. And we had a country under control with minimal troops just like Europe and Asia.
Edit Watch this page Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) Page issues This article is about the ongoing civil war in Iraq. For previous civil wars in Iraq, see Iraqi Civil War. For other wars in Iraq, see Iraq War (disambiguation). Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) Part of the Arab Winter, the Persian Gulf Conflicts and the Spillover of the Syrian Civil War Iraq war map.png A map of the situation in Iraq, as of November 30, 2015. For a map of the current military situation of Iraqi insurgency, see here. Date Early June 2014[41] – present (1 year, 6 months, 1 week and 2 days) Location Iraq Status ISIL forces seize at least 70% of Anbar province,[42] including the cities of Fallujah,[43][44] Al Qaim,[45] Abu Ghraib[46] and half of Ramadi[47] during the Anbar campaign Tikrit, Mosul and most of the Nineveh province, along with parts of Salahuddin, Kirkuk and Diyala provinces, seized by insurgent forces in the June 2014 offensive[48][49][50][51] ISIL captures Sinjar and a number of other towns in the August 2014 offensive, but Sinjar becomes a contested city in December 2014 ISF expel ISIL from Diyala in February 2015,[52] and recapture Tikrit in April 2015[53] ISIL fully captures Ramadi in May 2015,[54] leaving them in control of 90% of Anbar[55] Belligerents ISIL[1]
Military of ISIL Ba'ath Party Loyalists
Naqshbandi Army[2] Logo of the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation.png SCJL[2] Emblem of the General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries.svg MCIR[3][4] IAILogo.png Islamic Army in Iraq Free Iraqi Army[5] Military Council of Anbar's Revolutionaries[6]
Anbar Tribal Council 1920 Revolution Brigade[7] Rashidin Army[8] Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance[9] Iraqi Hamas[10] Ansar al-Islam Mujahideen Army
Ansar al-Sunnah Iraqi government[1]
Security forces Several militias[11][12] Iran
Quds Force[13] Syria[14] (airstrikes)
CJTF–OIR:[15][16] Australia[17] Belgium Canada[18] Denmark[19] France Morocco Jordan Netherlands Turkey United Kingdom United States[20][21] Military aid: Russia[22][23] Albania[24] Bosnia and Herzegovina[25] Croatia[26] Czech Republic[27] Estonia[28] Finland[18] Hungary[29] Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq) logo.jpg al-Hashd al-Shaabi
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Peace Companies Kata'ib Hezbollah Shiism arabic blue.svg Mukhtar Army Badr Brigades Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada Kata'ib al-Imam Ali Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Forces Supported by:
Iran Hezbollah Iraqi Kurdistan [1]
Peshmerga Rojava
YPG[30] YPJ[30] PKK[30]
HPG[30] YJA-STAR[30] PJAK[31]
YRK[31] HPJ[31] Yezidi forces
YBŞ HPŞ[32] Assyrian forces
MFS[33] Nineveh Protection Units Banner.jpeg NPU[34] Assyrian Flag.png QPC[35] Logo of the Dwekh Nawsha Militia.jpg Dwekh Nawsha[36] CJTF–OIR:[15][16] Australia[17] Belgium Canada[18] Denmark[19] France Germany[37] Jordan Netherlands United Kingdom United States[20][21][38] Military aid: Iran[39][40] Russia Albania[24] Bosnia and Herzegovina[25] Croatia[26] Czech Republic[27] Estonia[28] Finland[18] Hungary[29] Commanders and leaders Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader of ISIL)[56] Abu Suleiman al-Naser (Head of Military Shura)[57] Abu Mohammad al-Adnani (Spokesman)[58]
IAILogo.png Ismail Jubouri Abu Hashim al Ibrahim
KIA: Abu Ala al-Afri † (Deputy Leader of ISIL)[59] Abu Muslim al-Turkmani † (Deputy Leader, Iraq)[60] Abu Ayman al-Iraqi † (Former Head of Military Shura)[57] Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri † Haider Al-Abadi (2014–present) Fuad Masum(2014–present) Nouri al-Maliki(2014–2015) Babaker Shawkat B. Zebari(2014–2015) Ahmad Abu Risha(2014–present)
Muqtada al-Sadr Qais al-Khazali Akram al-Kabi Shiism arabic blue.svg Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis Wathiq al-Battat (POW)[61]
Massoud Barzani Strength Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
30,000–100,000 fighters[62][63][64] Ba'ath Party Loyalists
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order: 5,000+[65] Islamic Army in Iraq: 10,400 (2007)[66] SCJL: 10,000+ MCIR: 75,000[67] Free Iraqi Army: 2,500[5][68] Iraqi Security Forces 600,000 (300,000 Army and 300,000 Police)[69] Awakening Council militias - 30,000[70] Contractors ~7,000[71][72] US Forces 3,550[73] Canadian Forces 600[74]
Popular Mobilization Forces: 60,000-90,000[75]
Badr Brigade: 10,000[76] Peshmerga: 200,000[77][78] Casualties and losses Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL fighters: 11,558+ killed and 5,841 captured [79][80][81] Iraqi security forces and militias: 6,291 killed and 7,150 wounded [79][82][83]
Peshmerga fighters: 1,300+ killed, 6,000+ wounded[84] and 52 missing[85] CJTF–OIR:
U.S. Military Casualties: 7 non-hostile deaths. 1 wounded in action.[86][87][88][89] 16,364 civilians killed and 25,340 wounded (Government and UN figures, January 2014 – May 2015)[79][83] 24,102 civilians killed (Iraq body count figures, January 2014 – June 2015)[90]
Total deaths: 35,513–43,251 (as of June 2015) The Iraqi Civil War is an ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East. In 2014, the Iraqi insurgency escalated into a civil war with the conquest of Fallujah and Mosul and major areas in northern Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS). This has resulted in the forced resignation of the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, airstrikes by the United States, Iran, Syria, and at least a dozen other countries,[91] the participation of Iranian troops[92] and military aid provided to Iraq by Russia.[91]
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Edit Watch this page Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) Page issues This article is about the ongoing civil war in Iraq. For previous civil wars in Iraq, see Iraqi Civil War. For other wars in Iraq, see Iraq War (disambiguation). Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) Part of the Arab Winter, the Persian Gulf Conflicts and the Spillover of the Syrian Civil War Iraq war map.png A map of the situation in Iraq, as of November 30, 2015. For a map of the current military situation of Iraqi insurgency, see here. Date Early June 2014[41] – present (1 year, 6 months, 1 week and 2 days) Location Iraq Status ISIL forces seize at least 70% of Anbar province,[42] including the cities of Fallujah,[43][44] Al Qaim,[45] Abu Ghraib[46] and half of Ramadi[47] during the Anbar campaign Tikrit, Mosul and most of the Nineveh province, along with parts of Salahuddin, Kirkuk and Diyala provinces, seized by insurgent forces in the June 2014 offensive[48][49][50][51] ISIL captures Sinjar and a number of other towns in the August 2014 offensive, but Sinjar becomes a contested city in December 2014 ISF expel ISIL from Diyala in February 2015,[52] and recapture Tikrit in April 2015[53] ISIL fully captures Ramadi in May 2015,[54] leaving them in control of 90% of Anbar[55] Belligerents ISIL[1]
Military of ISIL Ba'ath Party Loyalists
Naqshbandi Army[2] Logo of the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation.png SCJL[2] Emblem of the General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries.svg MCIR[3][4] IAILogo.png Islamic Army in Iraq Free Iraqi Army[5] Military Council of Anbar's Revolutionaries[6]
Anbar Tribal Council 1920 Revolution Brigade[7] Rashidin Army[8] Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance[9] Iraqi Hamas[10] Ansar al-Islam Mujahideen Army
Ansar al-Sunnah Iraqi government[1]
Security forces Several militias[11][12] Iran
Quds Force[13] Syria[14] (airstrikes)
CJTF–OIR:[15][16] Australia[17] Belgium Canada[18] Denmark[19] France Morocco Jordan Netherlands Turkey United Kingdom United States[20][21] Military aid: Russia[22][23] Albania[24] Bosnia and Herzegovina[25] Croatia[26] Czech Republic[27] Estonia[28] Finland[18] Hungary[29] Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq) logo.jpg al-Hashd al-Shaabi
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Peace Companies Kata'ib Hezbollah Shiism arabic blue.svg Mukhtar Army Badr Brigades Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada Kata'ib al-Imam Ali Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Forces Supported by:
Iran Hezbollah Iraqi Kurdistan [1]
Peshmerga Rojava
YPG[30] YPJ[30] PKK[30]
HPG[30] YJA-STAR[30] PJAK[31]
YRK[31] HPJ[31] Yezidi forces
YBŞ HPŞ[32] Assyrian forces
MFS[33] Nineveh Protection Units Banner.jpeg NPU[34] Assyrian Flag.png QPC[35] Logo of the Dwekh Nawsha Militia.jpg Dwekh Nawsha[36] CJTF–OIR:[15][16] Australia[17] Belgium Canada[18] Denmark[19] France Germany[37] Jordan Netherlands United Kingdom United States[20][21][38] Military aid: Iran[39][40] Russia Albania[24] Bosnia and Herzegovina[25] Croatia[26] Czech Republic[27] Estonia[28] Finland[18] Hungary[29] Commanders and leaders Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader of ISIL)[56] Abu Suleiman al-Naser (Head of Military Shura)[57] Abu Mohammad al-Adnani (Spokesman)[58]
IAILogo.png Ismail Jubouri Abu Hashim al Ibrahim
KIA: Abu Ala al-Afri † (Deputy Leader of ISIL)[59] Abu Muslim al-Turkmani † (Deputy Leader, Iraq)[60] Abu Ayman al-Iraqi † (Former Head of Military Shura)[57] Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri † Haider Al-Abadi (2014–present) Fuad Masum(2014–present) Nouri al-Maliki(2014–2015) Babaker Shawkat B. Zebari(2014–2015) Ahmad Abu Risha(2014–present)
Muqtada al-Sadr Qais al-Khazali Akram al-Kabi Shiism arabic blue.svg Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis Wathiq al-Battat (POW)[61]
Massoud Barzani Strength Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
30,000–100,000 fighters[62][63][64] Ba'ath Party Loyalists
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order: 5,000+[65] Islamic Army in Iraq: 10,400 (2007)[66] SCJL: 10,000+ MCIR: 75,000[67] Free Iraqi Army: 2,500[5][68] Iraqi Security Forces 600,000 (300,000 Army and 300,000 Police)[69] Awakening Council militias - 30,000[70] Contractors ~7,000[71][72] US Forces 3,550[73] Canadian Forces 600[74]
Popular Mobilization Forces: 60,000-90,000[75]
Badr Brigade: 10,000[76] Peshmerga: 200,000[77][78] Casualties and losses Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL fighters: 11,558+ killed and 5,841 captured [79][80][81] Iraqi security forces and militias: 6,291 killed and 7,150 wounded [79][82][83]
Peshmerga fighters: 1,300+ killed, 6,000+ wounded[84] and 52 missing[85] CJTF–OIR:
U.S. Military Casualties: 7 non-hostile deaths. 1 wounded in action.[86][87][88][89] 16,364 civilians killed and 25,340 wounded (Government and UN figures, January 2014 – May 2015)[79][83] 24,102 civilians killed (Iraq body count figures, January 2014 – June 2015)[90]
Total deaths: 35,513–43,251 (as of June 2015) The Iraqi Civil War is an ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East. In 2014, the Iraqi insurgency escalated into a civil war with the conquest of Fallujah and Mosul and major areas in northern Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS). This has resulted in the forced resignation of the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, airstrikes by the United States, Iran, Syria, and at least a dozen other countries,[91] the participation of Iranian troops[92] and military aid provided to Iraq by Russia.[91]
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Fix President Obama took credit in 2012 for withdrawing all troops from Iraq. Today he said something different. Resize Text Print Article Comments 53 By Scott Wilson June 19, 2014 President Obama surprised a few people during a news conference Thursday by claiming that the 2011 decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq, a politically popular move on the eve of an election year, was made entirely by his Iraqi counterpart. The implication ran counter to a number of claims that Obama has made in the past, most notably during a tight campaign season two years ago, when he suggested that it was his decision to leave Iraq and end an unpopular war.
President Obama speaks about the deteriorating situation in Iraq in the Brady briefing room of the White House on June 19. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) His remarks, coming as an Islamist insurgency seizes territory across northern Iraq and threatens the central government, recalled key moments in his reelection race when he called his opponent hopelessly out of step with Middle East realities for wanting to keep U.S. forces in the still-fragile country America had invaded nearly a decade earlier.
In the 2012 campaign’s stretch, Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney met inside the performing arts center of Lynn University for the last of three presidential debates. The race remained close, and in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA-run annex in Benghazi, Libya, the Romney team saw foreign policy as an area of potential vulnerability for the incumbent. The debate focused on the issue.
For much of that election year, Obama had included a line of celebration in his standard stump speech, one that among an electorate exhausted by more than a decade of war always drew a rousing applause: “Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq,” Obama proclaimed in Bowling Green, Ohio, in September 2012, and did nearly every day after until the election. “We did.”
For Obama, who four years earlier had distinguished himself from Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton through his opposition to the war in Iraq, the fact he had withdrawn all U.S. forces from the country was a problem solved and a political chip to be cashed in come November. It was also a way to once again draw contrasts with Romney, who criticized Obama for failing to secure a so-called status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government. The agreement would have granted immunity from Iraqi prosecution to all U.S. troops in country after 2011. Reaching such a deal -- a political risk for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- would have allowed a contingent of several thousand U.S. troops to remain, largely to help with training and specific counter-terrorism operations.
"With regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe, that there should be a status of forces agreement," Romney told Obama as the two convened on the Lynn University campus in Boca Raton, Fla., that October evening. "That’s not true," Obama interjected. “Oh, you didn't want a status of forces agreement?” Romney asked as an argument ensued. “No,” Obama said. “What I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.”
Fix President Obama took credit in 2012 for withdrawing all troops from Iraq. Today he said something different. Resize Text Print Article Comments 53 By Scott Wilson June 19, 2014 President Obama surprised a few people during a news conference Thursday by claiming that the 2011 decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq, a politically popular move on the eve of an election year, was made entirely by his Iraqi counterpart. The implication ran counter to a number of claims that Obama has made in the past, most notably during a tight campaign season two years ago, when he suggested that it was his decision to leave Iraq and end an unpopular war.
President Obama speaks about the deteriorating situation in Iraq in the Brady briefing room of the White House on June 19. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) His remarks, coming as an Islamist insurgency seizes territory across northern Iraq and threatens the central government, recalled key moments in his reelection race when he called his opponent hopelessly out of step with Middle East realities for wanting to keep U.S. forces in the still-fragile country America had invaded nearly a decade earlier.
In the 2012 campaign’s stretch, Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney met inside the performing arts center of Lynn University for the last of three presidential debates. The race remained close, and in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA-run annex in Benghazi, Libya, the Romney team saw foreign policy as an area of potential vulnerability for the incumbent. The debate focused on the issue.
For much of that election year, Obama had included a line of celebration in his standard stump speech, one that among an electorate exhausted by more than a decade of war always drew a rousing applause: “Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq,” Obama proclaimed in Bowling Green, Ohio, in September 2012, and did nearly every day after until the election. “We did.”
For Obama, who four years earlier had distinguished himself from Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton through his opposition to the war in Iraq, the fact he had withdrawn all U.S. forces from the country was a problem solved and a political chip to be cashed in come November. It was also a way to once again draw contrasts with Romney, who criticized Obama for failing to secure a so-called status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government. The agreement would have granted immunity from Iraqi prosecution to all U.S. troops in country after 2011. Reaching such a deal -- a political risk for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- would have allowed a contingent of several thousand U.S. troops to remain, largely to help with training and specific counter-terrorism operations.
"With regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe, that there should be a status of forces agreement," Romney told Obama as the two convened on the Lynn University campus in Boca Raton, Fla., that October evening. "That’s not true," Obama interjected. “Oh, you didn't want a status of forces agreement?” Romney asked as an argument ensued. “No,” Obama said. “What I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.”
It was Romneys fault not to demand that 100,000 be stationed in Iraq... Indefinitely... Paid for with Iraqi oil.
Had he done so, Obama could have kept 25,000 troops there throughout his presidency and no one would have said anything about it
Nuclear works exactly as intended... every single time.
Except when your target is spread across thousands of miles, or really the entire globe. You just gonna bonb the entire world. Well except Siberia. There's no ISIS in Siberia.
So, there's no hope? Just let 'em take over and then everybody convert to radical Islam? Is that the liberal plan?
Right now we are bombing the snot out of ISIS. Where have you been?
What's the Republican plan? Oh that's right, the Republican Congress is sitting on an authorization for use of force agreement presented to them by liberals and won't even present their own bill.
So I'd say the conservative plan is to just let Obama lead and scream that no one is doing anything. Even tho we are bombing the snot out of them. Makes sense.
Yeah, all those innocent bystanders getting killed is auce.
Let's not kill innocent bystanders. But drop a nuke. Makes sense.
Did I suggest dropping a nuke? Epic pressing.
Though if it were possible to focus one just on your house with no fallout beyond your walls, I'd be intrigued. I'm not saying I want you dead, so don't twist.
The whole problem in Syria is that we need to give up the notion that Assad be removed by a Military solution at least in the here and now. We need to huddle up with Putin and negotiate that if you stop bombing the rebels that are fighting ISIS then we will stop bombing Assad controlled areas. If the US Rebels Kurds and Russians could get on the same page ISIS would be wiped out in Syria in 3 months.
Yup. And Putin has proposed kicking ass and taking names together. Obama does not give a shit.
Are you really that dumb or is this a wooossshhh?
Do you gargle before swallowing obama's semen or just suck it straight down?
From the dude who would rather live in Putin's Russia. Fuck that is stupid.
The only reason Russia is now finally engaging is because the price of oil. He isn't bombing ISIS, he's bombing oil rigs.
But keep gargling Putin's balls. Shake. My. Head.
Man...you are still some kind of stupid.
You think he's propping up Assad only because of current oil prices...wow.
Keep gargling on Obama...
It sounds like reality is lost on you. Do you really think Putin is joining in just cause he wants to help America and Europe?
No you dumb motiherfucker. He wants to protect his markets and HIS borders.
The US has no interest in that but the US needs to protect its markets and its border too from the same threat in ISIS and a completely (more than now) fucked up Middle East.
Jesus. Fucking a. This shit is not hard.
If it's not hard, then why don't you get it?
Not to mention you are slurping Putin's balls. Seriously. How FS is that?
Go ahead. Explain what I'm not getting.
I have several times.
Go ahead. Boil it down.
I'll put it in bullets.
- Putin has done shit for 15 months with ISIS.
- Putin starts to bomb and threatens nuclear weapons.
- you monkeys cheer like he's a genius and Obama has done nothing to stop ISIS.
- I show you that the US has by far been the only country doing meaningful fighting against ISIS.
- you still cheer Putin cause "he's not a pussy, he'll threaten nuclear weapons."
- you ignore the fact that with an enemy like this, a nuclear weapon is pointless.
- You ignore the fact that the only reason Putin wants to bomb ISIS is because of oil.
- you stroke his balls and pretend there's other reasons he wants to bomb ISIS.
Clear enough?
C'Mon guys!!!
We're just lucky that Honda and Ozone take time off from spearheading the Free Bo Bergdahl rallies to even post here at all!
Just by sheer volume of airstrikes. Even if 80% were worthless,, we still have been more effective than the next country.
To be clear, our strategy has been far from perfect. I don't think our military saw the whole picture early enough. But I'm sure they get it now.
But what if 100% hit exactly in the barren desert they were aimed at?
Why does Iran want Assad out? Why are we siding with Iran?
Our military knew and knows exactly what was/is going on, despite what Obamas trained Chimp leading the area says. This could have been nipped in the bud over a year ago but Obama was afraid to even watch the CNN reports of Islamists taking over Iraq.
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Part of the Arab Winter, the Persian Gulf Conflicts and the Spillover of the Syrian Civil War
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A map of the situation in Iraq, as of November 30, 2015. For a map of the current military situation of Iraqi insurgency, see here.
Date Early June 2014[41] – present
(1 year, 6 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location Iraq
Status
ISIL forces seize at least 70% of Anbar province,[42] including the cities of Fallujah,[43][44] Al Qaim,[45] Abu Ghraib[46] and half of Ramadi[47] during the Anbar campaign
Tikrit, Mosul and most of the Nineveh province, along with parts of Salahuddin, Kirkuk and Diyala provinces, seized by insurgent forces in the June 2014 offensive[48][49][50][51]
ISIL captures Sinjar and a number of other towns in the August 2014 offensive, but Sinjar becomes a contested city in December 2014
ISF expel ISIL from Diyala in February 2015,[52] and recapture Tikrit in April 2015[53]
ISIL fully captures Ramadi in May 2015,[54] leaving them in control of 90% of Anbar[55]
Belligerents
ISIL[1]
Military of ISIL
Ba'ath Party Loyalists
Naqshbandi Army[2]
Logo of the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation.png SCJL[2]
Emblem of the General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries.svg MCIR[3][4]
IAILogo.png Islamic Army in Iraq
Free Iraqi Army[5]
Military Council of Anbar's Revolutionaries[6]
Anbar Tribal Council
1920 Revolution Brigade[7]
Rashidin Army[8]
Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance[9]
Iraqi Hamas[10]
Ansar al-Islam
Mujahideen Army
Ansar al-Sunnah
Iraqi government[1]
Security forces
Several militias[11][12]
Iran
Quds Force[13]
Syria[14]
(airstrikes)
CJTF–OIR:[15][16]
Australia[17]
Belgium
Canada[18]
Denmark[19]
France
Morocco
Jordan
Netherlands
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States[20][21]
Military aid:
Russia[22][23]
Albania[24]
Bosnia and Herzegovina[25]
Croatia[26]
Czech Republic[27]
Estonia[28]
Finland[18]
Hungary[29]
Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq) logo.jpg al-Hashd al-Shaabi
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
Peace Companies
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Shiism arabic blue.svg Mukhtar Army
Badr Brigades
Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada
Kata'ib al-Imam Ali
Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Forces
Supported by:
Iran
Hezbollah
Iraqi Kurdistan [1]
Peshmerga
Rojava
YPG[30]
YPJ[30]
PKK[30]
HPG[30]
YJA-STAR[30]
PJAK[31]
YRK[31]
HPJ[31]
Yezidi forces
YBŞ
HPŞ[32]
Assyrian forces
MFS[33]
Nineveh Protection Units Banner.jpeg NPU[34]
Assyrian Flag.png QPC[35]
Logo of the Dwekh Nawsha Militia.jpg Dwekh Nawsha[36]
CJTF–OIR:[15][16]
Australia[17]
Belgium
Canada[18]
Denmark[19]
France
Germany[37]
Jordan
Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States[20][21][38]
Military aid:
Iran[39][40]
Russia
Albania[24]
Bosnia and Herzegovina[25]
Croatia[26]
Czech Republic[27]
Estonia[28]
Finland[18]
Hungary[29]
Commanders and leaders
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader of ISIL)[56]
Abu Suleiman al-Naser (Head of Military Shura)[57]
Abu Mohammad al-Adnani (Spokesman)[58]
IAILogo.png Ismail Jubouri
Abu Hashim al Ibrahim
KIA:
Abu Ala al-Afri †
(Deputy Leader of ISIL)[59]
Abu Muslim al-Turkmani † (Deputy Leader, Iraq)[60]
Abu Ayman al-Iraqi † (Former Head of Military Shura)[57]
Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri †
Haider Al-Abadi (2014–present)
Fuad Masum(2014–present)
Nouri al-Maliki(2014–2015)
Babaker Shawkat B. Zebari(2014–2015)
Ahmad Abu Risha(2014–present)
Muqtada al-Sadr
Qais al-Khazali
Akram al-Kabi
Shiism arabic blue.svg Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
Wathiq al-Battat (POW)[61]
Massoud Barzani
Strength
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
30,000–100,000 fighters[62][63][64]
Ba'ath Party Loyalists
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order: 5,000+[65]
Islamic Army in Iraq: 10,400 (2007)[66]
SCJL: 10,000+
MCIR: 75,000[67]
Free Iraqi Army: 2,500[5][68]
Iraqi Security Forces
600,000 (300,000 Army and 300,000 Police)[69]
Awakening Council militias - 30,000[70]
Contractors ~7,000[71][72]
US Forces 3,550[73]
Canadian Forces 600[74]
Popular Mobilization Forces: 60,000-90,000[75]
Badr Brigade: 10,000[76]
Peshmerga: 200,000[77][78]
Casualties and losses
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL fighters:
11,558+ killed and 5,841 captured
[79][80][81]
Iraqi security forces and militias:
6,291 killed and 7,150 wounded
[79][82][83]
Peshmerga fighters:
1,300+ killed, 6,000+ wounded[84] and 52 missing[85]
CJTF–OIR:
U.S. Military Casualties: 7 non-hostile deaths. 1 wounded in action.[86][87][88][89]
16,364 civilians killed and 25,340 wounded
(Government and UN figures, January 2014 – May 2015)[79][83]
24,102 civilians killed
(Iraq body count figures, January 2014 – June 2015)[90]
Total deaths: 35,513–43,251
(as of June 2015)
The Iraqi Civil War is an ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East. In 2014, the Iraqi insurgency escalated into a civil war with the conquest of Fallujah and Mosul and major areas in northern Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS). This has resulted in the forced resignation of the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, airstrikes by the United States, Iran, Syria, and at least a dozen other countries,[91] the participation of Iranian troops[92] and military aid provided to Iraq by Russia.[91]
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President Obama took credit in 2012 for withdrawing all troops from Iraq. Today he said something different.
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By Scott Wilson June 19, 2014
President Obama surprised a few people during a news conference Thursday by claiming that the 2011 decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq, a politically popular move on the eve of an election year, was made entirely by his Iraqi counterpart. The implication ran counter to a number of claims that Obama has made in the past, most notably during a tight campaign season two years ago, when he suggested that it was his decision to leave Iraq and end an unpopular war.
President Obama speaks about the deteriorating situation in Iraq in the Brady briefing room of the White House on June 19. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
His remarks, coming as an Islamist insurgency seizes territory across northern Iraq and threatens the central government, recalled key moments in his reelection race when he called his opponent hopelessly out of step with Middle East realities for wanting to keep U.S. forces in the still-fragile country America had invaded nearly a decade earlier.
In the 2012 campaign’s stretch, Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney met inside the performing arts center of Lynn University for the last of three presidential debates. The race remained close, and in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA-run annex in Benghazi, Libya, the Romney team saw foreign policy as an area of potential vulnerability for the incumbent. The debate focused on the issue.
For much of that election year, Obama had included a line of celebration in his standard stump speech, one that among an electorate exhausted by more than a decade of war always drew a rousing applause: “Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq,” Obama proclaimed in Bowling Green, Ohio, in September 2012, and did nearly every day after until the election. “We did.”
For Obama, who four years earlier had distinguished himself from Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton through his opposition to the war in Iraq, the fact he had withdrawn all U.S. forces from the country was a problem solved and a political chip to be cashed in come November.
It was also a way to once again draw contrasts with Romney, who criticized Obama for failing to secure a so-called status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government. The agreement would have granted immunity from Iraqi prosecution to all U.S. troops in country after 2011. Reaching such a deal -- a political risk for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- would have allowed a contingent of several thousand U.S. troops to remain, largely to help with training and specific counter-terrorism operations.
"With regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe, that there should be a status of forces agreement," Romney told Obama as the two convened on the Lynn University campus in Boca Raton, Fla., that October evening. "That’s not true," Obama interjected. “Oh, you didn't want a status of forces agreement?” Romney asked as an argument ensued. “No,” Obama said. “What I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.”
Had he done so, Obama could have kept 25,000 troops there throughout his presidency and no one would have said anything about it
We're just lucky that Honda and Ozone take time off from spearheading the Free Bo Bergdahl rallies to even post here at all!
Just by sheer volume of airstrikes. Even if 80% were worthless,, we still have been more effective than the next country.
To be clear, our strategy has been far from perfect. I don't think our military saw the whole picture early enough. But I'm sure they get it now.
But what if 100% hit exactly in the barren desert they were aimed at?
Why does Iran want Assad out? Why are we siding with Iran?
Our military knew and knows exactly what was/is going on, despite what Obamas trained Chimp leading the area says. This could have been nipped in the bud over a year ago but Obama was afraid to even watch the CNN reports of Islamists taking over Iraq.