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Today’s anti-IS meeting is fantasy masquerading as policy
With Iraq riven by sectarianism and corruption, don’t expect any public statements from today’s London meeting of anti-IS nations to bear much relationship to reality on the ground.
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With Iraq riven by sectarianism and corruption, don’t expect any public statements from today’s London meeting of anti-IS nations to bear much relationship to reality on the ground.
Senior figures from the US-led coalition fighting the militant Islamic State group have all gathered in London, debating how soon Iraqi forces can mount a sustained attack from the ground.
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it was an unscripted aside that ended up revealing the most in President Obama’s State of the Union address: “I have no more campaigns to run.”
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Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon says it is a matter of “public interest” that the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war is published without further delay.