21/04/20 08:17
AX INTEL ANALYSIS: US-Iran and impact on Iraq
DATE: 21APR2020
While Iraq’s domestic political crisis continues, the geopolitical face-off between the U.S. and Iran has broadened out, ensnaring civic actors in a mainly military (non)confrontation. Militias have launched rockets at the Green Zone in Baghdad, which houses government buildings and all international representation, seemingly in line with the wishes of their strongest political and financial backers in Tehran… Read More...Tags: USA, iraq, iran, IRGC, terrorism
03/01/20 07:56
AX INTEL BULLETIN: Soleimani’s assassination & what’s next?
DATE: 03JAN2020
The killing of Qassem Soleimani is one of the biggest developments in the Middle East in decades — it far eclipses the deaths of Osama bin Laden or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in terms of strategic significance and implications.
The U.S. and Iran have been engaged in a dangerous tit-for-tat for months now, but this is a massive walk up the escalation ladder… Read More...Tags: iran, iraq, syria, terrorism
16/07/18 14:20
AX INTEL BULLETIN: Iraq - as protests boil, political elite seeks scapegoat
DATE: 16JUL2018
Summer protests over water and electricity shortages, poor services, and corruption are not new in Iraq. Yet this year’s protests seem to have caught Iraqi officials by surprise… Read More...Tags: iraq, ISIS, shiite, sunni, kurds