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Sep 7, 2017
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Matthew Levitt
Michael Knights
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Sep 1, 2017
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Michael Knights
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Podcast: Iraqi Kurdistan ahead of the Independence Referendum
The upcoming independence referendum in Iraq’s Kurdistan region is already yielding positive results in the form of compromise and cooperation among parties and movements whose enmity has long gridlocked Iraqi Kurdish politics.
Aug 31, 2017
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Michael Knights
Brief Analysis
Aug 22, 2017
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Michael Knights
Brief Analysis
The al-Abbas Combat Division Model:
Reducing Iranian Influence in Iraq's Security Forces
One large faction of Shia volunteers demonstrates how the PMUs can function under Iraqi -- not Iranian -- control, offering a model that coalition forces should support.
Aug 22, 2017
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Michael Knights
Hamdi Malik
Articles & Testimony
Predicting the Shape of Iraq's Next Sunni Insurgencies
Analysts tracking the insurgent landscape in Iraq can draw many lessons from 2010-14, the period during which the Islamic State recovered its potency.
Aug 16, 2017
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Michael Knights
Articles & Testimony
The Best Thing America Built in Iraq:
Iraq's Counter Terrorism Service and the Long War Against Militancy
A compact size, high pay, and rigorous standards have helped the service thrive, but now it needs sustained support to become a lasting monument to U.S. good intentions in Iraq.
Jul 19, 2017
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Michael Knights
Alex Almeida
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Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in the Nineveh Plains
In the aftermath of Mosul's liberation, the adjacent Nineveh Plains could be a cockpit for new ethno-sectarian conflict or a test case of cooperative security arrangements, with the anti-IS coalition having strong incentives to ensure the latter.
Jul 14, 2017
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Michael Knights
Yousif Kalian
Articles & Testimony
Mosul Defeat a Blow to IS, but Not the End
Risks include a burgeoning jihadist insurgency in areas retaken from the group more than two years ago, including Diyala province, where Iran-backed militias have exacerbated matters by engaging in collective punishment.
Jul 10, 2017
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Michael Knights
Brief Analysis
Jul 10, 2017
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Michael Knights
Articles & Testimony
The Fight for the Northern Iraq-Syria Border
At the symbolic level, Iran and its proxies are achieving great success in planting their flags along this contested frontier, but real control will entail the much tougher task of establishing permanent bases and logistical arrangements.
Jun 27, 2017
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Michael Knights
Articles & Testimony
Turkey's Waiting Game in Sinjar
From Ankara's perspective, an optimal outcome may ultimately involve using soft power, rather than actual force, to remove its Kurdish PKK and YPG adversaries from the district.
Jun 27, 2017
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Michael Knights
Brief Analysis
Jun 13, 2017
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Michael Knights
Fikra Forum
Fikra Forum
Building a “Joint Force” to Control Liberated Yazidi Towns
More than two weeks after the launch of the Muhammad Rasallah II operation, the Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs, or al-Hashd al-Shabi) reached the Syria-Iraq border west of Mosul on May 29, 2017. Hadi al-Ameri, leader of the Badr Organization and one of the most influential PMU commanders, announced from the
Jun 6, 2017
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Michael Knights
Hamdi Malik
Brief Analysis
Preventing Allies from Fighting Each Other in Iraq's Disputed Areas
As the Islamic State attempts to regenerate in tense multiethnic areas, Washington should view Arab-Kurdish dispute resolution as an essential counterterrorism mission, not an uncertain nation-building enterprise.
May 31, 2017
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Michael Knights
Articles & Testimony
Mini-Hizballahs, Revolutionary Guard Knock-Offs, and the Future of Iran's Militant Proxies in Iraq
There is still time to offset the gains that Iran’s proxies have made in the past three years, but only if Baghdad continues resisting the creation of a permanent, well-funded security institution that operates outside the Iraqi chain of command.
May 9, 2017
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Michael Knights
Michael Eisenstadt
Articles & Testimony
Defeat by Annihilation: Mobility and Attrition in the Islamic State's Defense of Mosul
A detailed look at how the group has chosen to fight the final stages of the battle in northern Iraq, with potential lessons for the next 'last stand' battle in Raqqa.
Apr 18, 2017
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Michael Knights
Alex Almeida
Brief Analysis
Apr 2, 2017
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Matthew Levitt
Michael Knights
Brief Analysis
Defeating the Islamic State in Iraq, By the Numbers
Iraq and the Kurdistan Region are America's strongest allies in the war against IS, and sustained U.S. security assistance will be vital to finishing the job.
Mar 29, 2017
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Michael Knights
Brief Analysis
Mar 26, 2017
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Michael Knights
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