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#Iraq 2024 Islamic State avg 5.1 incidents/month 2025 only avg 3.3 and most of those are result of govt ops coming across insurgent cells rather than attacks musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2025/04/marc...

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#Iraq Of the 12 full weeks of 2025 have been 5 with no Islamic State activity 1 incident in Mar matches previous low seen in Feb Jun & Nov 2024 musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2025/04/marc...

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#Iraq Start of March checkpoint on Baghdad-Kirkuk highway attacked by Islamic State No casualties Only activity by group during month musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2025/04/marc...

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Islamic State continued its slow death in #Iraq in March Only 1 incident during month musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2025/04/marc...

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Musings On #Iraq March 2025 Only 1 Insurgent Incident In Iraq musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2025/04/marc...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2020 Kataib Hezbollah said there would be no more attacks on US as long as it continued to withdraw from Iraq Attacks continued musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-mahdi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2020 Iraq suspended Reuters’ license to operate in Iraq for 3 months and fined $21,000 for article saying more COVID cases then govt reported Suspension was lifted in 3 wks musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-mahdi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2018 Accountability and Justice Commission banned 374 candidates for Baathist ties musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2018 Report Salahaddin councilman accused Hashd of smuggling oil from Tuz Kharmato to Iran Hashd denied story musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2018 Report Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed wanted to improve relations with Iraq to counter Iran 2017 Saudi Foreign Minister visited Iraq 1st Saudi official to visit since 1990 Sadr went to Saudi Arabia Feb 2018 Saudi football team played in Basra musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2018 Pres Erdogan said Turkey would fight PKK without asking Baghdad Said if Baghdad didn’t deal with PKK Turkey would move into Iraq musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2018 Anbar councilman said not enough money to do reconstruction Blamed corrupt officials Said only getting money from aid groups and wasn’t enough 160 bridges 66 water purification plants 240 schools damaged in province during war musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2017 Kataib Hezbollah said US trying to stay in Iraq and resistance factions were ready to fight it musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2017 PUK and KDP held meeting over independence referendum Agreed to create a committee and hold vote soon musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2016 Babil council said no one could return to Jurf al-Sakhr until IEDs removed Real reason was along route used by Shiite pilgrims Civilians never allowed back musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2016 PM Abadi announced investigation into Unaoil after report that it bribed Iraqi officials to get oil contracts Nothing came of it musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2016 Report US counterterrorism official said IS facing financial crisis Reports of clashes between IS cmdrs over corruption Reports of pay cuts for fighters IS oil production down 1/3 due to Coalition air strikes musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2015 Report Jalawla in Diyala empty of people even though freed from IS in Nov 2014 Some displaced allowed to return but couldn’t stay Asayesh said 2 areas that supported IS would be destroyed and rebuilt musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2015 Guard in Tikrit said he counted more than 200 homes in Qadisiyah district destroyed after city’s liberation musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2015 Hashd leader Muhandis said that any looting and abuses in Tikrit were done by locals not Hashd musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2015 Sadr said brazen militias should be removed from Tikrit by ISF after stories of looting and burning homes Were also his political rivals musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2013 Gunmen in army uniforms attacked 4 independent newspaper offices in Baghdad Mahmoud Sarkhi blamed musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2012 Central Bank of Iraq tried to tighten rules on dollar auctions to stop money laundering Used by Iran and Syria to get around sanctions Poor enforcement meant didn’t work musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2012 Report KRG stopped oil exports for Baghdad 2011 made budget deal for KRG to export oil for Baghdad in return for monthly budget payments KRG said hadn’t gotten money since May 2011 musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2012 Oil Min Luaibi claimed Exxon was halting work in KRG so that it could continue working with Baghdad KRG Natural Resource Min Hawrami denied that musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2012 Dep PM Shahristani accused KRG of smuggling oil to Iran and Turkey Said KRG had earned $3.5 bil from smuggling in 2011 Said KRG not meeting its oil export quota under 2012 budget Said KRG owed Baghdad $5.6 bil musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2011 56 wounded in clashes between police and protesters in Sulaymaniya musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2010 PM Maliki’s talks with National Alliance failed as ISCI’s Hakim opposed Maliki’s 2nd term musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1st-pm-mal...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2009 Report PM Maliki and Sadr agreed to shut out ISCI from most provincial govts after Jan vote Agreed to joint rule in Babil Dhi Qar Muthanna Najaf Wasit musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2008 Council on Foreign Relations’ Biddle told Senate US would have to stay in Iraq for a very long time to maintain stability Revenue Watch’s Said told Senate Iraq wasn’t using improved security to carry out any political reforms musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1-st-pmmal...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2008 Retired Gen McCaffrey said ISI’s urban insurgency was defeated but that the war was unsustainable for US musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1-st-pmmal...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2008 Maliki announced 7 day ceasefire in Basra City with Mahdi Army musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1-st-pmmal...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2007 Report Islamic Army joined al-Rashideen Army Omar Brigades and Black Banners to fight ISI musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2007 Ayatollah Sistani said he opposed US plan to reform deBaathification and allow former Baathists back into govt Came after Sistani met with deBaathification Comm head Chalabi musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1st-pm-mal...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2006 Fmr CENTCOM cmdr Gen Zinni on Meet the Press said Iraq failure of strategic planning by US musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-jaafari...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2006 PM Jaafari said he would integrate militias into security forces to control them musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-jaafari...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2006 US Amb Khalilzad said militias should be disarmed Iraqi officials said that would create more violence musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-jaafari...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2006 US military reported 1313 Iraqi civilians killed in sectarian murders in March 2006 173 killed in suicide bombings as civil war took off after Feb Samarra bombing musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-jaafari...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2006 Sec State Rice UK Foreign Sec Straw told PM Jaafari he didn’t have support and should step down Jaafari said no musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-jaafari...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2004 Natl Sec Adv Rice told Bremer that Chalabi was working against US interests by siding with Shiite bloc in Iraqi Governing Council Rice wanted him out musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/us-occupat...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2004 Sec State Powell criticized US intel for giving him faulty claims about Iraq’s WMD for his Feb 03 UN speech musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2004 Marines ordered to go into Fallujah and arrest culprits behind killing Blackwater contractors Became Op Vigilant Resolve musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/us-occupat...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2003 Pentagon-CIA meeting Def Sec Rumsfeld said he wanted to move forward with Iraqi Interim Authority CIA Dir Tenet warned against including Chalabi and exiles in authority musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2003 State Dept leaked complaints to LA Times about Pentagon’s postwar plans to exclude UN and support Chalabi and INC musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_...

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#Iraq Apr 2 2003 Talabani said Peshmerga would not attack Kirkuk city to stave off criticism from US and Turkey Kurds ended up taking city musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2003-invas...

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