Sx_MilitaryTimes_M6201410306120054 imported at Fri Jan 8 18:18:17 2016 Veterans of the Iraq War and their families are watching with dismay and alarm as Sunni insurgents overrun large swaths of ...

The characteristics of the insurgency in Iraq are familiar from earlier campaigns ... “The nature of this culture is you can’t win a war of attrition with them,” said Col.

Ahmed Hashim, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, said the higher numbers squared with his findings in a study of the insurgency completed in Iraq. One hint that the number is larger is the ...

Later that month, on May 20, the fledgling insurgency struck its ... convinced that Al Qaeda's sectarian war would end with Iran stepping in to defend Iraq's Shiite majority.

“Armed groups as well as governments must respect the laws of war.” The report examines the civilian groups targeted by insurgents—such as Iraq’s ethnic and religious communities ...

Take the events of January 5, among the most violent days in post-war Iraq. The largest attack occurred in the insurgency stronghold of Ramadi. A suicide bomber, most likely an operative of ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Facing a major assault in Fallujah, insurgents struck back Saturday with suicide car bombs, mortars and rockets across a wide swath of central Iraq, killing over 30 people and ...

They were defeated tactically, but the very fact that they were able to conduct such an offensive at all undermined support for the war among many Americans. The insurgents in Iraq may reason that ...

That insurgency could go on for any number of ... At least 1,735 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an AP count. The U.S. military ...

but the conflict dragged on after Hussein was overthrown and loyalist insurgents began rising in the region and waging guerrilla warfare. In the 14 or so years since the end of the Iraq War ...