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A year of Trump's War on Terror

Charlie May
Iraqi special forces advance towards the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. The advance comes as part of a major assault that started five days earlier to drive Islamic State militants from the western half of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed) (AP)

Iraq’s humanitarian crisis

Alon Ben-Meir - The Globalist
FILE -- In this April 5, 2017 file photo, two boys pose for a photo while sitting atop a destroyed house in a neighborhood recently retaken by Iraqi security forces from Islamic State militants, in west Mosul, Iraq. The destruction on a single street in Mosul underscores the cost of breaking the IS group’s hold in the Iraqi city. All but two houses have been reduced by airstrikes to piles of concrete, brick and metal. With few supplies, residents are left stunned and traumatized, recounting stories of relatives and neighbors crushed in their homes. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) (AP)

A long road ahead

Charlie May
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syrians describe nightmare

Rania Khalek - Alternet
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The effects of ISIS

Alexandra Clinton
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference about recent military actions and altered campaign promises. (AP)

A. Trevor Thrall - Cato Institute
Russian President Vladimir Putin hood while visiting Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic, Russia, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Russia has sought to strengthen its foothold in the Arctic amid intensifying rivalry for the region's rich natural resources between polar countries. (Sergei Karpukhin/Pool Photo via AP) (AP)

Cynthia Hooper - The Conversation
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Another unplanned war?

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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dessert and destruction

Angelo Young
Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces advance toward Islamic State positions as fighting to retake the extremist-held city of Mosul enters its second week, in the village of Tob Zawa, outside Mosul, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. A convoy of special forces advanced toward the village of Tob Zawa, Monday, encountering roadside bombs and trading heavy fire with the militants.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) (AP)

Ryan Bohl - Geopolitics Made Super
File - In this Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016 file photo, Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces gather ahead of an operation to re-take the Islamic State-held City of Mosul, outside Irbil, Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of military operations to liberate the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants on Monday, launching the country on its toughest battle since American troops left nearly five years ago. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File) (AP)

Simon Mabon - The Conversation

Brendan Gauthier
FILE -- In this Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, file photo, Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces gather ahead of an operation to re-take the Islamic State-held City of Mosul, outside Irbil, Iraq. Iraqi forces appear poised to launch their most complex anti-IS operation to date: retaking the country’s second largest city of Mosul. While the country’s military has won a string of territorial victories that have pushed IS out of more than half of the territory the group once held, some Iraqi officials worry that the Mosul fight has been rushed and if the city is retaken without a plan to broker a peace, it could lead to more violence. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File) (AP)

Susannah George
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Patrick Howell O'Neill - The Daily Dot
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Andrew J. Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
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ISIS and the corrupt art trade

Noah Charney
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