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The U.S.-backed military operation to rescue Mosul from the grip of ISIS appears to be on the brink of success. But a military victory over the extremist group is only the beginning of building a stable Iraq, a country where current conditions could incubate an "ISIS 2.0."
By the end of our interview, Nagl was effusive. “USIP prevents wars from happening and ends them sooner, on terms more favorable to the United States. It keeps American soldiers alive,” he annunciated slowly. “USIP understands how wars end.”
Iraq’s Prime Minister al-Abadi has increased public confidence in the country’s military, but corruption remains an obstacle to his effort to improve governance and stabilize Iraq, USIP's Sarhang Hamasaeed told SiriusXM Radio. Al-Abadi sees consistent support from the Trump administration as essential to a stabilizing Iraq following the war against ISIS, Hamasaeed says.
A cadre of dialogue facilitators has emerged from Iraq's burgeoning civil society and worked with the U.S. Institute of Peace to guide successful negotiations like the one in Tikrit in a half-dozen locations over the past 10 years. In 2007 ...
Countering the terrorist threat poses a massive challenge, including for the US to work with local governments that in some cases have abetted IS’s rise through repression, economic neglect, and corruption.
A rising tide of intolerance in the Middle East threatens minority faith communities with cultural extinction, said speakers at a May 10 lecture in New York. Religious minorities are the most seriously impacted among the millions who have fled their homes to escape violence and the percentage of Christians in the region has dropped to an all-time low, panelists said.
The Kurdish fighters – called Peshmerga – are not able to carry out some missions without U.S. support, says Sarhang Hamasaeed of the U.S. Institute of Peace. “They don't have the reach that they need to defeat this adversary,” he said. The battle ...
"The Kurdish Peshmerga need this kind of support because they do not have the air capability, they don't have the reach that they need to defeat this adversary,” said Sarhang Hamasaeed, an expert with the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington.
Joining Crocker for the discussion will be: Emma Sky, director of Yale World Fellows and senior fellow at Yale's Jackson Institute; Sarhang Hamasaeed, senior program officer for the Middle-East and North Africa Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace ...
Sarhang Hamasaeed, Senior Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He leads the Institute's Iraq Program and also provides political and policy analysis on Iraq and other regional issues ...