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Islamic State likely to pick battle-hardened Iraqi as next leader: Report

The next leader of the Islamic State is likely to be from a close circle of battle-hardened Iraqi jihadists who emerged in the aftermath of the 2003 US invasion, two Iraqi security officials and three independent analysts said. The group of potential successors to Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi, who blew himself up during a US operation to capture him in Syria last week, includes one commander whom Washington and Baghdad declared killed last year, the Iraqi officials said.

Family Rift Rocks Kurdish PUK Party in Iraq

Lahur Talabany criticizes new PUK, calls for

Lahur Talabany criticizes new PUK, calls for
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The Inside Story of How Trump Kept the Oil in Syria and Lost

The Inside Story of How Trump ‘Kept the Oil’ in Syria and Lost Kenneth R. Rosen © Provided by The Daily Beast Delil Souleiman/Getty American forces only stayed in Syria to comprehensively defeat ISIS, a spokesman explained; any military presence around the oil fields was purely part of the mission to overcome the so-called Islamic State. Two years later, the remnants of ISIS are diminished, but American troops are still on the ground, still helping to protect that oil. The official stance of the White House, the State Department and the Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria was then and remains now that keeping the oil is not the reason American men and women are still stationed in one of the world’s most treacherous conflicts. U.S. forces and the coalition more broadly “does not provide assistance to any private companies, employees or agents in seeking to develop oil resources NE Syria,” a spokesperson said in March.

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