Word: insurgentes
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Since November 2006, when U.S. forces deployed elsewhere in Iraq, the Baqubah River valley, a string of farming hamlets nestled among dense palm groves northeast of Baghdad, has become the scene of intense violence. Over the weekend, the U.S. military returned in force. TIME'S Mark Kukis went along with...
The court-martial, however, is unlikely to answer another question: whether the men were killed because superior officers had, in essence, suggested that no military-age Iraqi men should be left alive in the raid of what was believed to be an insurgent stronghold. The defense has been complicated by...
The seeds were planted by Yasser Arafat. When he ran the Palestinian Authority, Arafat's ruling philosophy involved playing numerous security forces against each other, so no single one could ever become too powerful. The result: several organizations, no clear hierarchy, a lot of guns and a lot of people...
In fact, Cordesman fears that the brutal Shi'ite control of Basra and southern Iraq will spread to greater Baghdad and make the already bad situation there that much worse. Shi'ite militias in the capital appear to be standing down and not challenging U.S. and Iraqi forces as they...
Meanwhile the militia and the insurgents have been finding ways to operate under the radar and out of firing range. On the streets of Ghazaliyah, Sgt. Michaud said, the Mahdi Army continued to "slowly, but surely," force Sunnis from their homes through other forms of intimidation. The more immediate threat...