The PMF in Iraq: Fight, then demobilise (Michael Knights, Al Jazeera)

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/12/pmf-iraq-fight-demobilise-161201090942532.html

Why delay doesn't make sense in Mosul (Michael Knights, Al Jazeera)

Don't postpone the battle but do stay engaged for long enough to stabilise Mosul.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/10/delay-doesn-sense-mosul-161004071920561.html

Iraqi security the day after Mosul (Michael Knights, Al Jazeera)

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/07/iraqi-security-day-mosul-160703072050571.html

A new formula in the battle for Fallujah (Michael Knights, Al Jazeera)

On May 22, the Iraqi government announced the opening of the long-awaited battle of Fallujah, the city only 30 miles west of Baghdad that has been fully under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group for the past 29 months. Fallujah was a critical hub for al-Qaeda in Iraq and later ISIL in the decade before ISIL's January 2014 takeover

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/160525084652172.html

How to prevent sectarian backlash from Baghdad bombings (Sajad Jiyad, Michael Knights, Al Jazeera)

More than 100 people were killed on Wednesday in three separate attacks in Baghdad, with more than 165 wounded. The most devastating bombing, in Sadr City's Urayba Market, killed more than 25 women and children

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/prevent-sectarian-backlash-baghdad-bombings-160517073547859.html

Iraq: Are Shia leaders ready for sectarian healing? (Michael Knights, Al Jazeera)

It is often assumed that the rise of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group since 2013 has made sectarian reconciliation harder to achieve in Iraq.

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Michael Knights is the Lafer Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He specialises in the politics and security of Iraq. He has worked in every Iraqi province and most of the country's hundred districts, including periods embedded with Iraq's security forces.

Iraq: Beware the liberation of Mosul (Michael Knights, Al Jazeera)

On February 26, US Marine Lieutenant-General Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), told the US Senate Armed Services Committeethat Mosul would probably not be recaptured by the Iraqi security forces (ISF) in 2016.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/03/iraq-beware-liberation-mosul-isis-160313060007589.html

Iraq's popular demobilisation (Michael Knights, Al Jazeera)

On June 10, 2014, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa that established a collective responsibility for all Iraqis to fight ISIL forces, authorising a popular mobilisation of as many fighters as were needed for as long as was needed to fend off the threat.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/02/iraq-popular-demobilisation-160224050939178.html

(Istituto fondamentale - Iraq) Restoring the Iraqi army's pride and fighting spirit (Michael Knights, Jabbar Jaafar, Al Jazeera)

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/07/restoring-iraqi-army-pride-fighting-spirit-150706075815364.html