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Iraq Project
Competing Visions for Syria and Iraq: The Myth of an Anti-ISIS Grand Coalition
Competing Visions for Syria and Iraq: The Myth of an Anti-ISIS Grand Coalition
Competing Visions for Syria and Iraq: The Myth of an Anti-ISIS Grand Coalition
Competing Visions for Syria and Iraq: The Myth of an Anti-ISIS Grand Coalition
Al Qaeda and ISIS: Existential Threats to the U.S. and Europe
The Institute for the Study of War and AEI's Critical Threats Project conducted an intensive multi-week exercise to frame, design, and evaluate potential courses of action that the United States could pursue to defeat the threat from ISIS and al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. This first report examines America’s global grand strategic objectives as they relate to ISIS and al Qaeda and considers the nature of those enemy groups in depth and in their global context.
Iraqi Security Forces Clear Ramadi’s Government Center
Dec 28, 2015 - Patrick Martin
The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) reportedly recaptured the government complex in central Ramadi on December 28 after clearing ISIS-held areas south of the complex on December 26 and 27.
Ramadi Control Map, Nov. 22, 2015 (Central Ramadi)
Dec 22, 2015 - Patrick MartinThe ISF began a major operation to penetrate central Ramadi on December 22, 2015. An element lead by the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) entered Ramadi from al-Humaira area south of Ramadi into the city’s southern neighborhoods. A separate CTS force entered from Ta’mim area southwest of Ramadi into al-Haouz neighborhood in southern Ramadi using a pontoon bridge, as all of Ramadi’s bridges have been heavily damaged.
Ramadi Control Map, Nov. 22, 2015 (overview)
Dec 22, 2015 - Patrick MartinThe ISF began a major operation to penetrate central Ramadi on December 22, 2015. An element lead by the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) entered Ramadi from al-Humaira area south of Ramadi into the city’s southern neighborhoods. A separate CTS force entered from Ta’mim area southwest of Ramadi into al-Haouz neighborhood in southern Ramadi using a pontoon bridge, as all of Ramadi’s bridges have been heavily damaged.