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• December 01, 2017 Iraqi security forces and popular mobilization forces
  By: Jessa Rose Dury-Agri, Omer Kassim, Patrick Martin
• May 12, 2017 The Campaign for Mosul: April 29-May 11, 2017
  By: Patrick Martin
• May 10, 2017 ISIS Sanctuary
  By: Alexandra Gutowski, Jesse Rose Dury-Agri
• May 01, 2017 Syria Situation Report: May 1 - 10, 2017
  By: Chris Kozak
• May 01, 2017 Russia’s Active Campaign in Ukraine
  By: Benjamin Knudsen, Alexandra Lariiciuc, Franklin Holcomb
• April 29, 2017 Russia’s Unrelenting Attacks On Syrian Civilians
  By: Genevieve Casagrande
• April 17, 2017 Russia and Iranian Basing In Syria
  By: Chris Kozak, Genevieve Casagrande, Tom Ramage
• April 06, 2017 ISW Analysts React to the U.S.’s Anti-Assad Strike in Syria
  By: Institute for the Study Of War
• April 01, 2017 Iraq Situation Report
  By: Patrick Martin
• January 01, 2017 Afghanistan Order of Battle
  By: Morgan Wesley
• December 01, 2016 ISIS forecast: Ramadan
  By: Jessica Lewis McFate, Harleen Gambhir
• March 01, 2016 Syrian Armed Opposition Powerbrokers
  By: Jennifer Cafarella, Genevieve Casagrande
• February 01, 2016 Jabhat Al Nusra and ISIS: Sources of Strength
  By: Harleen Gambhir, Katherine Zimmerman, Jennifer Cafarella
• February 01, 2016 Afghanistan Order of Battle
  By: Morgan Wesley
• January 01, 2016 Competing visions for Syria and Iraq: The Myth of an anti-ISIS coalition
  By: Jennifer Cafarella
• January 01, 2016 Al Qaeda and ISIS: Existential threats to the US and Europe
  By: Frederick W. Kagan, Kimberly Kagan, Jennifer Cafarella, Harleen Gambhir, Katherine Zimmerman
• September 01, 2015 Putins informations warfare in Ukraine
  By: Maria Snegovaya
• August 15, 2015 "An Army in all Corners" Assad's campaign strategy in Europe
  By: Chris Kozak
• July 15, 2015 ISIS global strategy: A wargame
  By: Harleen Gambhir
• May 01, 2015 The ISIS defence in Iraq ad Syria: countering an adaptive enemy
  By: Jessica Lewis McFate
• March 01, 2015 The Taliban Resurgent: Threats to Afghanistan's security
  By: Lauren McNally, Paul Bucala
• October 01, 2014 Beyond the Islamic state: Iraq's Sunni insurgency
  By: Sinan Adnan, Aaron Reese
• September 05, 2014 A strategy to defeat the islamic state
  By: Frederick W. Kagan, Kimberly Kagan, Jessica D. Lewis
• July 05, 2014 ISIS Governance in Syria
  By: Charles C. Caris, Samuel Reynolds
• July 05, 2014 Iraq Situation Report: July 30, 2014
  By: Nichole Dicharry
• June 05, 2014 ISIS Battle Plan for Baghdad
  By: Jessica Lewis
• June 05, 2014 Iraq Situation Report: August 4, 2014
  By: Nichole Dicharry
• May 05, 2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham and the "Cleansing" of Deir ez-Zour
  By: Valerie Szybala
• April 05, 2014 Iraq's 2014 National Elections
  By: Ahmed Ali
• April 05, 2014 Hezbollah in Syria
  By: Marisa Sullivan
• April 05, 2014 The Islamic State of Iraq Returns to Diyala
  By: Jessica Lewis
• April 05, 2014 Hezbollah in Syria
  By: Marisa Sullivan
• April 05, 2014 Iraq's 2014 National Elections
  By: Ahmed Ali
• January 05, 2014 Assad Strikes Damascus
  By: Valerie Szybala
• October 05, 2013 Afghanistan - Order of Battle
  By: Wesley Morgan
• October 05, 2013 Afghanistan – Order of Battle
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• October 05, 2013 AQI's "Soldiers' Harvest" Campaign
  By: Jessica Lewis
• July 05, 2013 Sectarian and Regional Conflict in the Middle East
  By: Aaron Reese
• June 05, 2013 Iranian Naval and Maritime Strategy
  By: Christopher Harmer
• May 05, 2013 Iraq's Sunnis in Crisis
  By: Stephen Wicken
• May 05, 2013 Iraq's sectarian crisis reignites as Shi'a militias execute civilians and remobilize
  By: Ahmed Ali, Kimberly Kagan, Jessica Lewis
• April 05, 2013 Maliki's Authoritarian Regime
  By: Marisa Sullivan
• April 05, 2013 Iraq's Provincial Elections and their National Implications
  By: Ahmed Ali
• March 05, 2013 The Assad Regime: From Counterinsurgency To Civil War
  By: Joseph Holliday
• March 05, 2013 The Free Syrian Army
  By: Elizabeth O'Bagy
• December 05, 2012 The Resurgence of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
  By: Sam Wyer
• September 05, 2012 Jihad in Syria
  By: Elizabeth O'Bagy
• September 05, 2012 Political Update: The Hashemi Verdict the Health of Democracy in Iraq
  By: Stephen Wicken
• September 05, 2012 The Islamic State of Iraq and the 'Destroying the Walls' Campaign
  By: Sam Wyer
• June 05, 2012 Syria's Maturing Insurgency
  By: Joseph Holliday
• June 05, 2012 Sadr's Balancing Act on Maliki
  By: Stephen Wicken
• April 05, 2012 Syria's Political Opposition
  By: Elizabeth O'Bagy
• April 05, 2012 Relations With Iraq's Kurds: Toward A Working Partnership
  By: Ramzy Mardini
• March 05, 2012 Middle East Security Report : Syria's Armed Opposition
  By: Joseph Holliday
• March 05, 2012 The Haqqani Network: A Strategic Threat
  By: Jeffrey Dressler
• December 05, 2011 Iraqi Leaders React To The U.S. Withdrawl
  By: Ramzy Mardini
• December 05, 2011 The Struggle for Syria in 2011
  By: Joseph Holliday
• October 05, 2011 Iran's Two Navies
  By: Joshua Himes
• May 05, 2011 Extending the U.S. Military Role in Iraq
  By: Ramzy Mardini, Marisa Cochrane Sullivan
• April 05, 2010 Iraqi Candidate Disqualification Update
  By: Marisa Cochrane Sullivan, James Danly
• March 05, 2010 Iraq on the Eve of Elections
  By: Marisa Cochrane Sullivan
• February 05, 2010 Iraqi Elections Update
  By: James Danly
• January 05, 2009 Asaib Ahl al Haq and the Special Groups
  By: Marisa Cochrane Sullivan
• October 05, 2008 Recent Attacks in Iraq: Al-Qaeda in Iraq or Special Groups?
  By: Marisa Cochrane Sullivan
• May 05, 2008 The Iraqi Accord Front's Return to Government
  By: Farook Ahmed
• April 05, 2008 Multi-National Division – Center's Operations during the 2007-2008 Troop Surge
  By: Farook Ahmed
• March 05, 2008 Targeting the Diyala Suicide Bombing Network
  By: Eric Hamilton
• March 05, 2008 The Growing Threat of Special Groups in Baghdad
  By: Marisa Cochrane Sullivan
• March 05, 2008 Iran and Al-Qaeda in Iraq: What's the Connection?
  By: Marisa Cochrane Sullivan
• February 05, 2008 Sons of Iraq and Awakening Forces
  By: Farook Ahmed
• February 05, 2008 Iraq Situation Report
  By: Kimberly Kagan, Marisa Cochrane, Eric Hamilton, Farook Ahmed, Andrea So, Wesley Morgan
• February 05, 2008 Iranian Influence in the Levant, Iraq and Afghanistan
  By: Danielle Pletka, Frederick W. Kagan, Kimberly Kagan
• January 05, 2008 Developments Fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq
  By: Eric Hamilton
• January 05, 2008 The Fight for Diwaniyah: The Sadrist Trend and ISCI Struggle for Supremacy
  By: Patrick Gaughen
• November 05, 2007 Baghdad Neighborhood Project: Saydiyah
  By: Patrick Gaughen
• September 05, 2007 Baghdad's Neighborhoods: November 2006 – August 2007: The Baghdad Security Plan in Mansour District
  By: Andrea R. So
• September 05, 2007 The Knights of Ameriya: Concerned Citizens in Baghdad
  By: Will Waddell
• September 05, 2007 Reconciliation Movements in and around Baghdad
  By: Will Waddell
• September 05, 2007 Baghdad Neighborhood Project: Rusafa
  By: Marisa Cochrane
• September 05, 2007 Baghdad Neighborhood Project: Washash and Iskan
  By: Patrick Gaughen
• August 05, 2007 Local Security: A Grassroots Effort
  By: Will Waddell
• June 05, 2007 Al Qaeda in Iraq Attacks on Bridges
  By: Kimberly Kagan
• June 05, 2007 Order of Battle for Operation Phantom Thunder
  By: Kimberly Kagan