USAID shutdown by Trump-backed DOGE puts Iraq in peril, hundreds of development projects under threat
The stopping of USAID operations has put the middle-east country of Iraq in crisis as hundreds of development projects backed ...
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Trump’s USAID shutdown threatens hundreds of Iraqi development projects
By bnm Gulf bureau The announced closure of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) by billionaire and Department ...
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Former Fort Carson Iraq war veteran gives up the fight to stay in the US
(Tribune News Service) — Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served two tours in Iraq ...
'Don't be afraid to try': Chardon woman injured while serving in Iraq channels pain into writing career
As a female veteran breaking barriers, Allison Kennedy encourages others facing their own battles to go after their dreams.
Mosul’s renowned minaret restored from ravages of Islamic State
Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...
‘Burn it down’: Experts urge ditching sluggish Pentagon arms process
Experts arguing to scrap the JCIDS process say the military needs more rapid acquisition processes, such as the model that ...
Washington Examiner11d
Syrian Civil War: What led to the fall of the regime
On Dec. 8, Syrian rebels entered Damascus, ending the Assad family’s 54-year rule and ostensibly the first phase of the ...
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Regime change in Syria has Iraqi factions backtracking on push for US withdrawal
In Iraq, as in much of the Arab world, U.S. backing for Israel in a war that killed tens of thousands of civilians and displaced nearly Gaza’s entire population of 2.3 million was unpopular. When the ...
Dezeen17d
Information Experience Design MA (IED) at The Royal College of Art
The Information Experience Design MA (IED) guides students in building a practice that translates computational and living systems into meaningful, beautiful experiences and artworks. Information ...
The National Interest17d
The Iraq War Was the Conflict No One Prepared For
And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...
Variety19d
‘Atropia’ Review: Alia Shawkat Trains Troops Assigned to a Fake Iraqi Town in a Self-Reflexive War Comedy That Peters Out
These familiar tropes emanate from the modern war cinema playbook ... to wherever America happens to be invading (in this case, Iraq). It’s a real place that functions like a sprawling ...