IA Struggling to Avoid Collapse on Multiple Fronts – Mosul OP in Danger of...
February 20, 2015 / ISIS Study Group / In our recent article titled “ISIS Launches First Wave of Attacks Against al-Asad Airbase as Kirkuk Heats Up,” we discussed how the Islamic State (IS) had...
View ArticleISIS Shaping Operations Against IA Blunts Mosul OP Before it Starts
February 26, 2015 / ISIS Study Group / The Iraqi Army (IA) has begun clearing Khan al-Baghdadi earlier this week. LTG James Terry, the senior US commander of the “Coalition of the Reluctantly Willing,...
View ArticleThe Tikrit Front: Not so “Rosy” as Claimed by Obama Administration
March 9, 2015 / ISIS Study Group / The IRGC-Qods Force-led operation has proven to be every bit the slow, hard slog as we assessed it would be, with the IA and the Qods Force-backed Shia militias...
View ArticleThe U.S. Is Providing Air Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Iraq
By Michael Weiss and Michael Pregent: American warplanes have begun bombing the Islamic State-held Iraqi city of Tikrit in order to bail out the embattled, stalled ground campaign launched by Baghdad...
View ArticleGOI Begins Prepping For OPs in Bayji, Hawijah and Mosul While Tikrit Remains...
April 15, 2015 / ISIS Study Group / Last week we got a good taste of how contrary to the Government of Iraq’s (GOI) claims, the city of Tikrit has not been secured. This was demonstrated in an attack...
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