by Mahmood Abu-Rubieh | Jun 11, 2015 | Monitor
On Monday, President Obama acknowledged the shortcomings of the international coalition’s effort in combating the terrorist group in an address at the G7 summit in Germany. “We don’t yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on part of the Iraqis as...
by Paul Nash | Jun 1, 2015 | Monitor
Sunni tribal fighters in 2007 (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) For several weeks in late 2004, U.S. Marines pushed their way through Fallujah, fighting street-by-street, house-by-house, room-by-room. In that desert city, on the banks of a polluted Euphrates River, they...