War in the age of Trump : the defeat of Isis, the fall of the Kurds, the conflict with Iran / Patrick Cockburn.

Title:

ISBN:

9781839760402

Personal Author:

Cockburn, Patrick, 1950-

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Verso, 2020.

Physical Description:

vi, 311 pages ; 25 cm

General Note:

"First published in the United States by OR Books LLC"--Title page verso.

Contents:

Introduction -- An isolationist in the American tradition -- The battle for Mosul -- The Iraqi Kurds: an unnecessary defeat -- Winners and losers in the Syrian war -- The siege of Raqqa -- Two last stands: Afrin and Eastern Ghouta--equal misery, unequal coverage -- Behind enemy lines: war reporting in the age of fake facts -- Iraq at the end of the war -- Turkey invades Rojava -- An uprising in Iraq.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century

Middle East -- Foreign relations -- 21st century

Iran -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.

Iraq -- History -- 21st century

Turkey -- History -- 21st century

Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-

Subject Term:

Kurds -- Foreign relations 21st century

Reporters and reporting 21st century

Fake news 21st century

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