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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Islamic State</title>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>The Allies Must Help Kurdistan in Economic Downturn</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2016/01/the-allies-must-help-kurdistan-in-economic-downturn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With plunging oil prices, fight against Islamic State and thousands of refugees, allies must support Kurdistan but financial aid should be coupled with reforms Oil is a black gold that all is too great when prices are sky-high. It can easily balance the national budgets of many a country. At the same time, an inefficient [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As UK and Germany vote for military intervention, the Paris tragedy should not overshadow years of brutal suffering and atrocities in Syria</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/12/as-uk-and-germany-vote-for-military-intervention-the-paris-tragedy-should-not-overshadow-years-of-brutal-suffering-and-atrocities-in-syria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vicious Islamic State (IS) coordinated attacks in Paris last month dominated the media and sent shockwaves across Western capitals. Just this week, governments of the United Kingdom and Germany voted to intervene militarily in Syria owed strongly to the events in Paris. But while media and public discussion has been dominated by the threat [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The battle for Tikrit – Iraq going down “that” sectarian road again?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/03/the-battle-for-tikrit-iraq-going-down-that-sectarian-road-again/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/03/the-battle-for-tikrit-iraq-going-down-that-sectarian-road-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does the following sentence hold so much significance? Iraqi forces, backed by thousands of Shiite militiamen and Sunni tribesmen and supervised by the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards&#8217; elite Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, launched an attacked to retake the Islamic State (IS) held town of Tikrit, without the assistance of Coalition forces. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As Iranian commander and Shiite militias spearhead attack on Tikrit, more questions than answers emerge from Iraq</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/03/as-iranian-commander-and-shiite-militias-spearhead-attack-on-tikrit-more-questions-than-answers-emerge-from-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As lines of Iraqi Humvees and trucks jammed the roads to Tikrit with thousands of Iraqi forces looking well-motivated and itching for battle, on the surface this would point to all the positive signs – Iraq was finally ready to banish the Islamic State (IS) from their doorstep. However, as Chairman of the US Joint [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>With Kurdish forces in ascendancy against IS in Syria and Iraq &#8211; coalition must focus on empowering vital allies of today, not training of Syrian and Iraqi forces that may come too late</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/03/with-kurdish-forces-in-ascendancy-against-is-in-syria-and-iraq-coalition-must-focus-on-empowering-vital-allies-of-today-not-training-of-syrian-and-iraqi-forces-that-may-come-too-late/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the barbarous threat of the Islamic State (IS) has become the top global concern, Kurdish forces have taken center stage in the fight in Iraq and Syria. Peshmerga forces have been instrumental in breaking any notion of invincibility of IS. Meanwhile, the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Forces (YPG), have proven that on both sides [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As Iraq prepares for Mosul battle, sentiments in post-Islamic State Iraq unlikely to change</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/02/as-iraq-prepares-for-mosul-battle-sentiments-in-post-islamic-state-iraq-unlikely-to-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fasting approach a year since the Islamic State (IS) darted across the Syrian desert to rapidly occupy Mosul, this week an official from the U.S. Central Command laid out plans for a spring offensive on the city involving Kurdish and Iraqi forces. The five Iraqi brigades expected to spearhead the attack are subject of frantic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>At the forefront of the war on Islamic State, yet Arab suspicions of Kurds highlight failed state</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/02/at-the-forefront-of-the-war-on-islamic-state-yet-arab-suspicions-of-kurds-highlight-failed-state/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/02/at-the-forefront-of-the-war-on-islamic-state-yet-arab-suspicions-of-kurds-highlight-failed-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Months of fierce fighting and several hundred coalition air-strikes later, the Islamic State (IS) finds itself largely on the defensive, but as a spate of attacks across Iraq clearly showed in recent days, IS is an adaptive and determined organization that is far from a finished force. As recent Peshmerga advances around Mosul threatened to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As Peshmerga continue advance on Mosul, Kurds repaid with no seat at international anti-Islamic State conference</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2015/01/as-peshmerga-continue-advance-on-mosul-kurds-repaid-with-no-seat-at-international-anti-islamic-state-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Islamic State (IS) launched rapid attacks on Mosul, Tikrit and large swathes of Iraq, the well-equipped and sizeable Iraqi army wilted away. Ironically, IS took large quantities of US-supplied heavy weaponry and laid siege on more Iraqi cities and then Kurdistan. The United States led coalition has spent billions and several hundred air-strikes [&#8230;]]]></description>
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