iraqi islamic party

Summer 2003 was the moment, roughly, when the insurgency in Iraq began to coalesce. (Naturally, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted no such thing was happening.) Five and a half years later, violence in Iraq has dropped down to the levels of … the beginning of the insurgency. Maj. Gen. David Perkins, a top official with [...]

The Anbar Awakening — the collection of tribes in Iraq’s Anbar Province that in 2006 broke with Al Qaeda and embraced a partnership with U.S. forces — had extremely high expectations for capturing the province’s government from the entrenched Iraqi Islamic Party in Saturday’s election. But it looks like that didn’t happen, and now the [...]