Iraq

Unholy Alliances (2021)

Even as Canadian military trainers working with the NATO Mission in Iraq warn about the threat posed by Iran-aligned Shia militias, Canada’s special forces are quietly helping those same militias take on the ISIS remnants.

Can Canadian soldiers stop the next Iraq insurgency? (2019)

As Iraq recovers from the trauma of the Islamic State, Canadian forces work to help the Iraqi army prepare for its resurgence.

As protests deepen in Iraq, Canada is caught in the middle (2019)

Iraqis are demanding more say in politics, their government has responded with violence, and Canada’s mission to the country has taken on added urgency.

How the fight to defeat ISIS sparked a new battle in Iraq (2017)

Canada put its military resources behind the Kurds to take on ISIS. Now it’s seeing the ugly results.

Justin Trudeau’s grossly misleading take on Iraq (2017)

Canada armed and trained the Kurds. To compare their independence vote to Quebec is a ploy to wash Canada’s hands of a mess it helped create.

He’s a hero to U.S. soldiers. Will the U.S. let him return home? (2017)

Visiting Kirkuk on a trip, military interpreter Alan Adil Abdullah isn’t sure what will happen when he tries to return to his kids and home in Seattle.

What’s Canada’s role in Iraq? It’s bigger than you think (2016)

Canadian Special Forces are in the thick of the battle around Mosul. What comes next?

A City Without Men (2006)

Fearing death or imprisonment, Iraqi men flee their cities leaving wives and daughters to fend for themselves

Inside the secret war in Iraq (2016)

Canadian diplomats warn that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s strategy in Iraq is contributing to its internal divisions.