Iraq

My Trip to Iraq We’ve all heard the saying the journey is worth more than the destination, but is it really though? From the past experience, I can assure you that that’s not always the case. My last trip to Iraq was very unreal, in a bad and good way. The trip, or the “journey” there, was one of the most tiring trips I ever had. So it all started off when my parents Enas Dkhan and Rasoul Hassan decided that we go to Iraq during summer break that year. They bought the tickets in January and…

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as “ISIS” or “ISIL”, is a militant extremist group that has been committing brutal war crimes, attacks against humanity, and acts of terror to put fear in the minds of many people all around the world. This group is known to be one of the most extreme groups of radicals that has ever existed. While many people are fearing ISIS, others are preparing for a war against them. Although there are many ideas of how and why they have come to be the biggest…

group started to do attacks on Iraq like suicide bombings and bombing and attacking cities. In a matter of days cities started to fall one by one. When the U.S started to do their air strikes on the ISIS oil refineries ISIS started to capture some people from multiple countries like: France, U.S, Russia etc. ISIS has started to attack all kinds of countries such as: september 2014: ISIS kidnapped an Algerian tourist and beheaded him in retaliation for the strikes in Iraq and Syria. January 2015…

regime led by Saddam Hussein, and continued sustainment operations for a limited period of time due to the outcry of the American people to bring the troops home. This premature recall of troops from Iraqi in 2009 proved to be a large campaign flaw. Iraq had been liberated, yet their new government was poorly established and was very much in need of American support. When we did not provide this support the foot hold of freedom that was gained through years of war had all but vanished in a…

Career Coach – Autobiography – GEB 3035 Sadok Hasan 1. Family Background. I was born in Baghdad, Iraq to a humble family of 5 – in the heart of the second Gulf War. I spent only my infant years there as my family struggled to get by. My dad had his own computer business while my mom stayed home to take care of the kids. I think inevitably my parents wanted to leave their home country with their kids one day, but it was made apparent when Saddam Hussein’s army stole my father from our house and…

Saddam Hussein, the former president/dictator of Iraq, was one of the most corrupt politicians of all time. His policies and actions are very similar to that of Verres. Verres was an ancient Roman praetor in the province Sicily. He is renown for being one of the most corrupt politicians of all time and was eventually tried and found guilty for multiple crimes. Both Verres and Saddam failed miserably in their political responsibilities to their citizens. First off, under both of these men,…

1.What are ISIS; goals? ISIS wants to establish a new Islamic caliphate across the Middle East. Caliphate means a state created and Controlled/Run by Islam. So ISIS wants to control all of the Middle East and be feared by all the different countries. They want all of these countries to fear them so they won’t attack them and so ISIS looks like the top dog of the world. 2.How do they plan to achieve these goals? ISIS; plan is to expand like the Nazis did in germany. They want to eventually…

Over Syria, British aircraft are supporting the coalition with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. “Isis is not just present in Iraq. It operates across the border, in Syria, where its headquarters are located, in Raqqa. It is from Raqqa that some of the main threats against other countries are planned and orchestrated. That’s why it is now crucial to strike Isis in Syria in order…

Freedom and Operation Iraq Freedom. Since the beginning, there has been over 1.5 million troops deployed to the region (Savitsky, Illingsworth, & Dulaney, 2009). It does not matter what the job is, the chances that a soldier will experience a form of trauma is almost guaranteed. It was no different for Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft. In her book, Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital, she discusses the trauma that she experienced in her seven months in Iraq, along with…

The year before, when ISIS gained control of Iraq, people had feared what would become of the Assyrian, and Babylonian art and artifacts that resided there, and it looks as if their fears were warranted. This article titled, Why is ISIS destroying ancient artifacts in Iraq, by Jessica Mendoza, describes some of the recent acts of destruction ISIS has taken on the culture of one of its conquered nations. According to the article, ISIS posted a video that showed some of its members using…