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The Army’s Iraq War History: Truth-Telling or Mythmaking?
It’s notable, however, what the military hasn’t produced ... adopted policies “based on an inappropriate analogy between Baathist Iraq and Nazi Germany” that “collapsed the edifice ...
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Kirkuk Kurdish farmers accuse Iraqi army of Arabization
citing ownership documents for the land that date back to the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein. In November, the Iraqi army prohibited Kurdish farmers in Kirkuk’s Sargaran subdistrict from ...
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Farmers banned from plowing their lands in Sargaran district
Early in November, the Iraqi army prohibited Kurdish farmers in the ... The land in dispute was part of Baathist-era demographic changes that forced Kurds and Turkmen off their land and brought ...
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Army National Guard soldier from Indiana dies in non-combat incident in Iraq
FILE - U.S. Army soldiers stand outside their armored vehicle on a joint base with the Iraqi army, south of Mosul, Iraq, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File) ...
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Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal
It was 2007 and the insurgency against US troops was raging next door in Iraq. Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a fellow secular Baathist like Assad, had been executed just six months earlier. But ...
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Army National Guard soldier from Indiana dies in non-combat incident in Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 34-year-old soldier serving with the Indiana National Guard in Iraq has died in a non-combat incident, the Army said Monday. Capt. Eric Richard Hart, 34, of Indianapolis ...