Iraq

          UPDATE DECEMBER 11: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-8 in favor of the AUMF for Syria and Iraq, but with some limitations, read more in this [...]

 A Sustainable, Effective Response to ISIS   Instead of another endless war, Members of Congress should stand up in support of effective alternatives to combat the threat from ISIS. Below are [...]

It’s not too late to stop an endless war in Iraq and Syria. We’ve spent over $1.1 billion bombing Iraq and Syria since August 2014, yet Congress has not debated or authorized our latest [...]

Below is a letter to the editor sent to the New York Times (they didn’t publish it, happens to the best of us) prompted by an article last week on the actual weapons of mass destruction [...]

Please take a minute to complete a simple, four question survey regarding U.S. military action in Iraq and Syria.. It helps to know what you think.  We want our communications, and most [...]

–by Kevin Martin, Executive Director Two weeks ago the House of Representatives voted 273-156 to fund and train “moderate” Syrian rebels to fight the radical terrorist group Islamic State [...]

With the first U.S. strikes on Syria came the first tragic reports of civilians killed in those very strikes. As our country enters into another open-ended war in the Middle East it’s [...]

Today is a national call in day to question the U.S. government’s ISIS strategy organized by two dozen groups including MoveOn, Veterans for Peace and Friends Committee on National Legislation [...]

Here is our analysis on supporting Syrian rebel groups that we shared with Congress today. You can take action to ask for a no vote here. Arms transferred to “moderate” rebel groups have wound up [...]

By Judith LeBlanc, Field Director,Peace Action The media calls the U.S. public war weary. Yes, the people are war weary after seemingly endless and pointless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Deep [...]