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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Iraq</title>
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		<title>Dominance of militias may haunt Baghdad</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2017/11/dominance-of-militias-may-haunt-baghdad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shia-dominated Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), were instrumental in pushing back the Islamic State group from the gates to Baghdad, and later in driving out IS militants from major cities across northern Iraq. Heeding a call from Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, an array of old and newly formed groups rallied under the PMF umbrella. In Iraq, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Baghdad obstructs Kurdish referendum but is Iraq’s constitution now void?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2017/07/baghdad-obstructs-kurdish-referendum-but-is-iraqs-constitution-now-void/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2017 19:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Kurdistan’s historical independence referendum draws near, Baghdad continues to argue the Kurdish drive toward independence is illegal and against the Iraqi Constitution. However, over a decade of failure to implement key articles of the Iraqi Constitution such as Article 140 that determines the future of Kirkuk, oil sharing, payment of Peshmerga salaries, and Kurdistan’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass destruction and ongoing national issues: IS defeat in Mosul a success?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2017/07/mass-destruction-and-ongoing-national-issues-is-defeat-in-mosul-a-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Monday announced “the end, failure, and collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism” with victory in Mosul over the Islamic State (IS) amid jubilant scenes. However, the symbolic ousting of IS from a city they have occupied for over three years may paper over the cracks, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Reliance on militia forces sows more sectarian cracks in Iraq</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2017/02/reliance-on-militia-forces-sows-more-sectarian-cracks-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With much focus on the battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (IS), there lacks a full consensus on the political future of the city, especially, how to maintain security. As the Iraqi army, Peshmerga, Sunni tribal militia, and Shiite-led Population Mobilization Units (PMUs), painstakingly clear Mosul of IS fighters, an active local security [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Trump to abandon Washington’s ‘One Iraq’ policy</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2017/01/time-for-trump-to-abandon-washingtons-one-iraq-policy/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2017/01/time-for-trump-to-abandon-washingtons-one-iraq-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout his tenure as President of the United States, Barack Obama, stuck to a “one Iraq” policy. It was the continuation of his predecessor&#8217;s, George W. Bush, policy who worked hard to promote the idea of a unified and inclusive Baghdad, even as sectarian fires in the post-Saddam Hussein Iraq led to a costly experience for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Stability of Mosul after liberation requires a political solution</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/10/stability-of-mosul-after-liberation-requires-a-political-solution/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/10/stability-of-mosul-after-liberation-requires-a-political-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of planning, the much-anticipated battle for Mosul is expected to arrive in the coming weeks. Not only will the liberation of Mosul prove a bloody and attritional struggle, but the political future of Nineveh province is unclear. For every day that Iraqi forces have prepared for the offense, IS has been planning its [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Aftermath of Chilcot Report – Iraqi invasion through narrow lens and overlooking inhumanity</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/07/aftermath-of-chilcot-report-iraqi-invasion-through-narrow-lens-and-overlooking-inhumanity/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/07/aftermath-of-chilcot-report-iraqi-invasion-through-narrow-lens-and-overlooking-inhumanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The obsession with the legitimacy, legality and value of the invasion of Iraq and the ousting of Saddam Hussein from power in 2003 was renewed with the release of the Chilcot Report. The much anticipated report by John Chilcot gave fresh fuel to sceptics of the invasion in the UK and the West with mass [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>West overlooks that Saddam was the ultimate weapon of mass destruction</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/07/west-overlooks-that-saddam-was-the-ultimate-weapon-of-mass-destruction/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/07/west-overlooks-that-saddam-was-the-ultimate-weapon-of-mass-destruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[13 years after the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, UK and Western media remain engrossed with the obsession that the actions of former U.S. President George W Bush and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair unearthed the raging bull that is visible across the Middle East today. The much-anticipated Chilcot Report [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Post IS reality in Mosul as tricky as the protracted liberation of the city</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/05/post-is-reality-in-mosul-as-tricky-as-the-protracted-liberation-of-the-city/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/05/post-is-reality-in-mosul-as-tricky-as-the-protracted-liberation-of-the-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took the Islamic State (IS) just days to seize Mosul and large swathes of territory, yet the Iraqi forces and the US-led coalition have been planning or trying to liberate Mosul for several months. As Iraqis were caught up in the prolonged planning for the liberation of the city and the protracted training of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>More reforms but same old problems hamper Iraqi fight against Islamic State</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/04/more-reforms-but-same-old-problems-hamper-iraqi-fight-against-islamic-state/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/04/more-reforms-but-same-old-problems-hamper-iraqi-fight-against-islamic-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2016 09:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The visit of U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, to Baghdad this week in what he deemed as “a very critical time” for Iraq, coincided with 13 years since the downfall of Saddam Hussein. Iraq remains in a critical battle against the Islamic State (IS) that continues to hold large swathes of territory almost two [&#8230;]]]></description>
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