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    War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran
    War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran
    War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran
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    War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran

    Written by Patrick Cockburn

    Narrated by Roger Clark

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    Is the fall of ISIS the end of the perpetual war in the Middle East?

    In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East. Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in November 2019, and recounts the new phase in the wars of disintegration that have plagued the region. The ground battle with the caliphate is perhaps over, but was this the end of the conflict that has scarred these nations for decades?

    Cockburn offers panoramic on-the-ground analysis as well as a lifetime's study of the region. And here he shows how peace appears a distant possibility with the continuation of conflict in Syria, Saudi Arabia's violent intervention in the Yemen, riots in Baghdad and Tehran. At the same time, the rising aggression between Israel and Iran, the raising of stakes between the US, Russia, and Turkey, shows that this remains the theater of the proxy wars of the world's superpowers. Has Trump abandoned the area for good, leaving a vacuum for others-Putin, Erdogan, Mohammed Bin Saud-to fill? He also looks at what might happen to the Islamic State: will it disappear now that it has lost its territory or emerge in a new form and with renewed violence?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 7, 2020
    ISBN9781705239544
    War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran
    Author

    Patrick Cockburn

    Patrick Cockburn is Iraq correspondent for the Independent in London. He has received the Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting, the James Cameron Award, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism. He is the author of Muqtada, about war and rebellion in Iraq; The Occupation (shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007); The Broken Boy, a memoir; and with Andrew Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein.

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