No peace yet in Iraq, or in Syria

So there’s lots of fighting left to be done, and lots of opportunities yet for the United States and Russia to stumble into a confrontation. Stay tuned.

President Donald Trump, pictured March 20, 2017, with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-abaci in the Oval Office. The Iraqi army couldn’t even have retaken Mosul without the lavish use of U.S. air power, Gwynne Dyer writes. Official White House photograph by Benjamin Applebaum

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 24, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—The shooting was still going on down by the river last week when Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi dropped by and prematurely declared that the battle for Mosul was over. He was misled by the various Iraqi army, police, and militia units who were competing with one another to de...

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