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The modern Middle East has seen a number of occasions in which the assassination of high-level government and military figures was attempted, or at least considered. Such instances include United States decapitation strike air raids targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1991, 1998, and 2003, in addition to killings or attempted killings of non-state ...
Obama's Wars is a 2010 book written by Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Bob Woodward. The book was published by Simon & Schuster and released on September 27, 2010. It focuses on the internal debates and divisions within the Obama administration regarding the handling of the United States' involvement in the ongoing Iraq and ...
WikiLeaks editor on Apache combat video: No excuse for US killing civilians – April 2010. Russia Today via YouTube; Families of Victims of 2007 US Helicopter Killing React to Leaked Video – video report by Democracy Now! Ethan McCord Describes Emotional Toll of Witnessing Killings – video interview by Democracy Now!
On 18 March, the U.S. Department of Defense stated that the American-led coalition had conducted "eight strikes consisting of 73 engagements in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government" and four of these strikes targeted ISIL in Mosul. They noted the strikes "engaged three ISIS tactical units; destroyed 56 ISIS vehicles, 25 ...
The alleged attempt on Trump's life was thwarted before any attack was carried out. U.S. authorities said the plot was part of Iran’s efforts to avenge the death of Qasem Soleimani, a top ...
Nine days after his speech on Afghanistan, Obama addressed Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and outlined an exit strategy for the Iraq War. Obama promised to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by August 31, 2010, and a "transitional force" of up to 50,000 counterterrorism, advisory, training, and support personnel by the end of 2011 ...
In 2020, Gabbard criticized Trump’s order to kill the Iranian general Qassim Soleimani who ran Iran’s proxy militia program in Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq and Yemen.
On January 18, 2014, Obama spoke to ZDF in an attempt to improve the United States relations with Germany, [17] [18] which a German foreign office official said were "worse than … the low-point in 2003 during the Iraq War" due to the surveillance leaks. [19]