Iraq

When we think about the term "blowback," we think of the rogues gallery of foreign mercenary forces the United States has created or exploited over the decades who invariably end up turning on their creators. The most prominent among these is Al Qaeda who...

Special Russian Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Bogdanov has recently stated, “Moscow does not exclude the possibility of the creation of an independent Kurdistan and other new nations in the Middle East...

On June 15, 2014, former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, denied the accusation that the attack on Iraq in 2003 was the actual factor in taking the country to the current crisis. The current spate of violence, Blair said giving the example of Syria...