"Protection or Plunder?"

A U.S. journalist Took Thousands of ISIS Files Out of Iraq, Reigniting a Bitter Dispute Over the Theft of Iraqi History

"Gertrude Bell, la meilleure ennemie des Arabes" - Emmanuel Gehrig

Longtemps oubliée par la mauvaise conscience coloniale, la Britannique retrouve sa place parmi les grandes exploratrices du XXe siècle. Son rôle dans la fondation de l’Irak fait d’elle une des plus importantes femmes d’influence de son temps.

"Si ce tank se mettait enfin à tirer, il exploserait leur putain de maison" - Wilson Fache

Les peshmergas, les combattants kurdes d'Irak, participent à la campagne militaire pour encercler Mossoul. Depuis jeudi, les Kurdes tentent de prendre la ville de Baachiqa, située à 20 kilomètres au nord-est du dernier grand bastion en Irak des terroristes de groupe État islamique. « L'Orient-Le Jour » s'est embarqué au côté des peshmergas pour raconter leur offensive, heure par heure.

"The battle for Mosul is not just coalition (good) v Isis (bad)" - Jonathan Shaw

The reality is more complex than many assume. Without a peace plan and counter-narrative that involves all the peoples of Iraq, victory will be partial and short-lived

"A liberation story: How 9/11 and the Iraq war led me to discover my own freedom" - Laura Westley

I graduated from West Point and was commissioned as a U.S. Army officer just three months prior to 9/11. Suddenly, war went from the history books to reality.

"Why ISIS Persists" - Jeffrey D. Sachs

Deadly terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Dhaka, and Baghdad demonstrate the murderous reach of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. The longer ISIS maintains its strongholds in Syria and Iraq, the longer its terrorist network will create such carnage. Yet ISIS is not especially difficult to defeat. The problem is that none of the states involved in Iraq and Syria, including the United States and its allies, has so far treated ISIS as its primary foe. It’s time they do.

" THE MOST INTRIGUING SPY STORIES FROM 166 INTERNAL NSA REPORTS - Snowden Archive"

IN THE EARLY months of 2003, the National Security Agency saw demand for its services spike as a new war in Iraq, as well as ongoing and profound changes in how people used the internet, added to a torrent of new agency work related to the war on terror, according to a review of 166 articles from a restricted agency newsletter.

"THE SECRET NSA DIARY OF AN ABU GHRAIB INTERROGATOR"

AFTER WORKING AS an interrogator for a U.S. military contractor in Iraq, Eric Fair took a job as an analyst for the National Security Agency. When he went to the NSA, Fair was reckoning with the torture of Iraqi prisoners, torture he had witnessed and in which he had participated.

"Les déplacements forcés en Irak modifient le visage du pays"

La violence en Irak, les exodes qu’elle génère, reconfigurent la géographie humaine du pays, et favorisent le regroupement de la population par communautés ethniques et confessionnelles. Avec la désintégration des structures étatiques du pays, la violence apparaît aussi comme un élément de domination d’un groupe sur un autre. L’édification d’une citoyenneté irakienne demeure plus qu’hypothétique.

"The Hidden Goods of 2015" - Peter Singer

If we were to judge the state of the world by the news headlines, 2015 was the year of Islamist terror, especially in Paris. It began with the massacre at "Charlie Hebdo" and included the much deadlier November 13 shootings in the city, in addition to attacks in Beirut, Ankara, and on a center for disabled people in San Bernadino, California.

"ISIS’s strategy of terror"

"Der Spiegel" investigative journalist Christoph Reuter is probably known to the English-speaking readership for his recent story on coming into possession of ISIS’s initial planning documents. However, this story is only part of his lengthy investigative work in Syria and Iraq, which has resulted in many reports and a new book, published in April this year.

O Estado da Loucura - "The Isis papers: a masterplan for consolidating power"

O The Guardian traduziu um documento de 24 páginas que representa as principais ideias de governo e a estratégia para a viabilização de um estado islâmico. Assustador é o que se pode dizer.

"What Should We Do if the Islamic State Wins?"

It’s time to ponder a troubling possibility: What should we do if the Islamic State wins? By “wins,” I don’t mean it spreads like wildfire throughout the Muslim world, eventually establishing a caliphate from Baghdad to Rabat and beyond. That’s what its leaders say they are going to do, but revolutionary ambitions are not reality and that possibility is particularly far-fetched. Rather, an Islamic State victory would mean that the group retained power in the areas it now controls and successfully defied outside efforts to “degrade and destroy” it. So the question is: What do we do if the Islamic State becomes a real state and demonstrates real staying power?

"The U.S. Strategy on IS in Iraq Has It Backwards"

Uma visão muito diferente do habitual:

U.S. war policy against the Islamic State (IS) has it backwards. Roughly speaking, the goal of the United States is trying to eradicate the jihadist group in Iraq with ground support from the Iraqi army, while merely seeking to contain it in Syria with pinprick bombing missions.

"The Isis economy: Meet the new boss"

At first glance, Iraq’s second city of Mosul looks like a model of success for its new rulers from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), the world’s most feared jihadi group. Well-swept thoroughfares bustle with cars, the electricity hums and the cafés are crowded.But in the back alleys, litter fills the streets. The lights stay on, but only because locals rigged up generators themselves. And under the blare of café televisions, old men grumble about life under Isis’s self-proclaimed caliphate.

"Kobane:Teenager YPG commander’s msg to the world"

Kurdish YPG teenager’s 4 msg to the world

Dear Obama, Dear united Nation, Human right organisations:

"The terrifying rise of Isis: $2bn in loot, online killings and an army on the run"

They're too extreme for al-Qaida, they boast of their brutality and they have forced the Iraqi government on to the defensive. How did the insurgent group rise to such terrifying power?

"RSF SOULAGÉE PAR LA LIBÉRATION DU JOURNALISTE NADIR DENDOUNE"

“L’annonce de la libération de Nadir Dendoune constitue un immense soulagement après vingt-trois jours d’inquiétude. Journaliste, il a été arrêté pour n’avoir fait que son travail. La mobilisation de ses proches et de ses confrères, en France comme en Irak, a porté ses fruits. Reporters sans frontières remercie les journalistes qui ont apporté leur signature à l’appel lancé par RSF et le comité de soutien”, a déclaré Christophe Deloire, Secrétaire général de l’organisation.

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