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Mahdi Army trains with Hezbollah

Mahdi Army leader Muqtada al Sadr admits direct involvement with Lebanese Hezbollah and, by default, Iran.


Touring with Gen. Petraeus

Wes Morgan is currently embedded with US forces in Iraq. Wes continues his day with Gen. Petraeus at Camp Taji, and visits joint security stations near Husseiniyah and Tarmiyah, and the embassy offices.


Battlefield Circulation Briefing with General Petraeus

Wesley Morgan is currently embedded with US forces in Iraq. Wes conducts a battlefield circulation with General Petraeus.


From Phantom Thunder to Phantom Strike

An update on operations in Baghdad and the Belts regions around the capital.


Haifa Street: The day after

By Wesley Morgan, who is currently embedded in Iraq. Wes writes for The Daily Princetonian and was invited to embed in Iraq by Gen. David Petraeus. Continue following Wes Morgan through Haifa Street with the Lt. Col. Jeffrey Peterson's 1-14...


Haifa Street and the Seventh Imam March

By Wesley Morgan, who is currently embedded in Iraq. Wes writes for The Daily Princetonian and was invited to embed in Iraq by Gen. David Petraeus. His assignment in Iraq is sponsored and financed by Public Multimedia Inc. Tuesday evening...


Operation Lightning Hammer in Diyala

The Baqubah egion. Click map to view. Clearing operation launched against al Qaeda in Iraq in the Diyala River Valley On the same day Multinational Forces Iraq announced Phantom Strike, a major operation against the networks of al Qaeda...


Coalition, Iraqi forces launch Operation Phantom Strike

Iraq. Click map to view. Operation designed to uproot al Qaeda and Iranian-backed terror groups With one month left before General David Petraeus' report to Congress on the status of progress in Iraq, Iraqi and Coalition forces have launched...


Task Force Warhorse: Classical counterinsurgency on Haifa Street

By Wesley Morgan, who is currently embedded in Iraq. Wes writes for The Daily Princetonian and was invited to embed in Iraq by Gen. David Petraeus. His assignment in Iraq is sponsored and financed by Public Multimedia Inc. In the...


Iraqi implications of Turkish parliamentary elections

Written by David Tate for The Fourth Rail The distribution of the Kurdish people in the Middle East [Map from Global Security]. By just about all outside accounts, the overwhelming victory in Turkey by the incumbent Justice and Development Party...


US, Iraqi forces kill 30 Iranian-backed Special Groups operatives

Qods Force logo, click to view. Raid in Sadr City the latest in a series of strikes against the Qods Force front Iraqi and US security forces maintain the pressure on the Shia terror groups while continuing the hunt...


Operations in Iraq's North; Mosul's emir killed

Safi, the former al Qaeda emir of Mosul. Clearing operation begins in Samarra as al Qaeda's emir of Mosul was killed by the Iraqi Army As the Baghdad Security Plan and Operation Phantom Thunder in the Baghdad Belts of...


Islamic State of Iraq - an al Qaeda front

Capture and interrogation of senior al Qaeda leader highlights al Qaeda control; Abu Omar al-Baghdadi a fictitious leader U.S. Special Operations Forces scored a major victory against al Qaeda in Iraq's senior leadership and gained valuable insight on the al...


Al Qaeda and its role in the Iraq insurgency

An al Qaeda operations map. Click to view. The attempts to minimize the role played by al Qaeda in Iraq in the larger Sunni insurgency took a significant step over the past week. Clark Hoyt, the public editor of...


Iraq and benchmarks, a mixed assessment

A breakdown of the progress and shortcomings of the Iraqi government in the Initial Benchmark Assessment Report to Congress Iraq. Click map to view. The Initial Benchmark Assessment Report, the interim report prior to the September assessment of the Iraqi...


Iraqi National Police Training

On July 10, The Fourth Rail conducted a telephone interview with Robert Bodisch, the Director of Training, and Adam Muery, the National Police Training Coordinator. Both are part of Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq's Civilian Police Assistance Training Team. The...


Muqtada al Sadr back in Iran

Muqtada al-Sadr. Mahdi Army leader leaves Iraq and goes to Iran for second time this year Muqtada al Sadr, the leader of the Shia Mahdi Army and the Sadrist bloc in parliament, has left Iraq and is in Iran,...


Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle: July 2007 Update

Iraqi & Coalition forces Order of Battle as of Jun 30, 2007. The July 2007 updates to the Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle are now available at the ISF OOB Page. Significant changes include the release of the...


Coalition Forces Rout al Qaeda Elements South of Ramadi

Twenty-three terrorists killed after massing on Donkey Island Ramadi and Donkey Island. Click to view. U.S. Army forces, with the help of Iraqi police, beat back an attempted al Qaeda in Iraq assault on Ramadi on June 30 and July...


Training the Iraqi National Police

From Ministry of the Interior Ad Hoc Paramilitaries to Professional Carabinerie The development of the Iraqi Police, at the local, provincial, and national levels, is crucial to the counterinsurgency campaign and allowing security to transition to the Iraqi Security Forces....