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No peace yet in Iraq, or in Syria
By Gwynne Dyer July 24, 2017
So there’s lots of fighting left to be done, and lots of opportunities yet for the United States and Russia to stumble into a confrontation. Stay tuned.
President Donald Trump, pictured March 20, 2017, with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-abaci in the Oval Office. The Iraqi army couldn’t even have retaken Mosul without the lavish use of U.S. air power, Gwynne Dyer writes. Official White House photograph by Benjamin Applebaum
LONDON, U.K.—The shooting was still going on down by the river last week when Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi dropped by and prematurely declared that the battle for Mosul was over. He was misled by the various Iraqi army, police, and militia units who were competing with one another to declare victory first, but now it really is over—and there is little left of Mosul.
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