US seeking to carve out Sunni state as its influence in Iraq wanes

The United States has in recent weeks been promoting a plan to create an autonomous Sunni region in western Iraq, officials from both countries told Middle ...

Iraq is actually a sovereign nation, and I can't see how Iraq's Shia majority will allow a semi-autonomous Saudi supported Sunni state in Iraq - ...

'Go to Tehran': The inside story of how the US was sidelined in Iraq

For years Khamis al-Khanjar was Washington's preferred go-between when it needed to reach Iraq's Sunni tribes. Now a target of US sanctions, ...

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Prospects for Increased Iranian Influence in Iraq - Brookings Institution

Iran has sought to evict the United States from Iraq to prevent it from using Iraq as a base of operations against Tehran, and to eliminate American influence, ...

In Iraq, US influence wanes as full-scale civil war looms

US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has been pushing Iraqi leaders to form a unity government, that would mend rifts inside the main Shiite bloc, and ...

A U.S.-Iraq Strategic Dialogue: A Question of Interests and ...

Iraq is central to the U.S. strategy of containing the expansion and power of Iran's current regime. No country in the Gulf region is currently ...

The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 1: Invasion – Insurgency

Page 1. Carlisle Barracks, PA and. UNITED STATES. ARMY WAR COLLEGE. PRESS. THE U.S. ARMY IN THE. 2003-2006. VOLUME 1. IRAQ WAR. INVASION ...

Some PMF subgroups have assumed political roles and will seek to leverage their roles in combatting the Islamic State to win votes in Iraq's ...

Shia-Sunni Conflict Forces U.S. Shift in Iraq - NPR

America's aims in Iraq changed as the sectarian conflict between Shia and Sunni deepened. Now bringing stability to Iraq is the goal, ...

The Sunnis of Iraq's “Shia” Paramilitary Powerhouse

This tactic was envisioned as an instrument to build trust with local communities liberated from the Islamic State, acknowledging their ...

Anatomy of a Civil War - Boston Review

Despite American intentions to create a secular, democratic Iraq, clerics were quickly replacing Baathists, and in the absence of anything else the mosque would ...

Iran and the United States Continue to Compete for Influence in Iraq

To accomplish that goal, Iran seeks to ensure that its Shia allies and proxies remain influential in Baghdad and that Iran-backed Shia militia ...

Instability in Iraq | Global Conflict Tracker

In addition to reintegrating liberated Sunni communities into the political system, the government has struggled to achieve the demobilization ...

Iraq Timeline: Since the 2003 War | United States Institute of Peace

Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr led an unlikely coalition with secular Sunnis and communists that won the largest number of seats while an Iran-backed block came ...

Iraq's Sectarian Relapse: Lessons of the “Shia House”

Most Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU) forces were Shia, although there were notable Sunni, Christian, and other PMU groups. All the forces that ...

Exit Strategy - Boston Review

The United States should be able to prevent the Sunni insurgents from getting control of the oil revenues of Iraq, since the oil fields are in areas dominated ...

Correcting America's Grand Strategic Failures in Iraq - CSIS

The U.S. never created stable plans for the future once it had created a new war with Iraqi Sunni extremists. It then rushed out of Iraq in 2011 ...