there is no way out of iraq for all iraqis, from all components of iraq other than one iraq. everyone wants a special interest of these countries, we welcome all components in iraq to have iraq first. >> let's stay with the neighborhood for a moment. on your other border, you have a very long border with syria. there have been recent exchanges between civilian and military leaders, baghdad, damascus, and we have a number of questions from the audience on syria. so the question is what is your assessment of the direction of events in syria, and what is your position towards the reintegration of syria in the arab league? what is the impact of this on raq? speaker al-halbousi: syria is a brethren arab country. with syria being subjected to attacks is not very different from iraq, but iraq is much longer term. it's very important that syria be back to the arab league than to go somewhere else. syria is part of the arab world. for the syrians they have a good position with iraq. before 2003 and after 2003. me re 2003, they adopted -- personally, they adopted the resistance, with m

now we go as one iraq. all components of iraq, other than one iraq. everyone wants a special interest of these countries, we welcome all components in in iraq to have iraq first. >> let's stay with the neighborhood for a moment. on your other border, the long border with syria, there have been recent exchanges, between civilian and military leaders, baghdad, damascus, we have other questions from the audience on syria. the question is, what is your assessment, of the direction of events in syria, what is your position towards the reintegration of the week? what is the impact of this on iraq. >> translator: syria is the brother in arab country. what syria has been objected to as a tax is not very much longer term. it is very important, that syria be back to the arab league, then to go somewhere else. syria is part of the arab world, and for the syrians, they have good positions with iraq, before 2003 and after 2003. before 2003, me personally, they adopted the resistance. when i was subject to terrorist attacks and targeting, i found that the syrians w

with iraq the con the con push iraq too much because iraq is relying on iran for gas and electricity and one of the reasons they can't push iraq too much is because i think at this current moment there is simply no alternative to the iranian electricity remember last year there was a temporary halt in electricity exports which sparked violent protests on the streets of bastro with more parading through the city and attacking the symbols of the iraqi political power i mean whether the trumpet mr likes it or not aren't the rainy and energy supplies crucial to the america's own objective of keeping iraq relatively safe. preventing it from imploding once again that's correct and i can argue with that but look i just don't get what's the point of such demands when they clearly could not be accommodated without risking and not the outbreak of violence and when you have to walk them badly just a few days later. again trump doesn't know if he has a look trump is going to go run for elections in twenty twenty to show results will come out of iran there was a been a major part of his foreign p

-- isis in iraq. look at the current role the iranian forces are playing in iraq, what do you see in terms of the force activity there? >> the issue of the popular mobilization forces that exist in iran is one that's complicated. i know that the prime minister and other government officials are trying to bring all of those forces under the control of the government. many of those forces in fact are nominally under the control of the prime minister. what we're really concerned about is particularly those popular mobilization forces that are not responsive to the iraqi government, but are taking their directions, their leadership from not just iran, but from the iranian revolutionary force, and that is what is going to pose a great challenge i think moving forward for iraq to emerge as a strong sovereign normal country, it has to deal with that issue. >> united states has been encouraging iraq to end its energy dependence on iran. a "wall street journal" article from november headlining u.s. pushes iraq

as you pointed out we are in iraq militarily at their invitation, we are not occupying iraq we left in 2011 with the and they have asked us back. even if there is controversy about that it's not going to be a slamdunk on any issue and the iraq he government still wants the united states to be that partner would you agree? >> i think we can count on iraq to continue to want the united states to be involved. they understand after that withdrawal in 2011 that a rise of isis controlling over 55,000 square miles in iraq was deeply traumatizing and threatened iraq. they understand they need the citizens of the united states and other partners to avoid that resurgence. >> ia set a powerful thing -- too much time in the middle east and you don't want your grandchildren to be at war in the middle east it is interesting that iraq is now an ally and partner yet we still have two authorizations for military force against iraq that are pending, president donald trump said in his state of the union great nations don't wage endless wars, i think ray congresses shouldn't authorize endless wars . the 1

but i think he was led into iraq for good intentions.here good intentions often lead. >> he did his best. he's not a great president. he's not a transformative president. he done his damnedest. i think that's the legacy of george bush. >> there were some good days, and there were some tough days. but every day was an honor to be your president. history will be the judge of my decisions, but when i walked out of the oval office this morning, i left with the same values that i took to washington eight years ago. when i get home tonight and look in the mirror, i'm not going to regret what i see. except maybe some gray hair. >>> the u.s. president goes off script at a conservative summit, tearing into the mueller investigation, complete with some words i can't say on television to you. that story ahead. >>> plus in the state of california proerk te california, protests after the district attorney notes to charge two officers who shot and killed a man with his cell phone in hand. >>> also ahead this hour, senator bernie sanders hosts his firs

iraq wanting to build as we want to build an iraq that -- iran wanting to build an iraq that's strong, stable and sovereign. >> i'm thinking in terms of the iran -- they have armed militias who provided revolutionary guard forces to assist with the fighting against isis in iraq. looking at the current role of the iranian forces are playing in iraq and what you see in terms of the force activity there. >> the issue of the popular mobilization forces that exist in iran is one that's complicated. i know that the prime minister and other government officials are trying to bring all of those forces under the control of the government. many of those forces in fact are nominally under the control of the prime minister. what we're really concerned about is particularly those popular mobilization forces that are not responsive to the iraqi government but are taking their directions, their leadership from not just iran, but from the iranian revolutionary force. that is what is going to pose a great challenge, i think, moving forward for iraq to emerge as a strong, sovereign, normal country it h

united states will eventually ban iraq from importing all iranian goods. through this that they rocky market would be hugely affected and the price of other imported products will skyrocket this is not in our favor as business owners nor good for consumers as iraq and iran are bound together by centuries of economic religious and political ties this week iranian president hassan rouhani is traveling to baghdad to meet with iraqi president barham saleh to try to expand them iraq in an iranian president's last met in november you weeks at the united states reimposed satans on iran they discussed establishing a free trade zone along its shared border and electricity and gas walk and building a railway connecting the two hundred three iraq relies on its neighbor to help me its oil and electricity. last year protestors in iraq's oil rich southern region of basra torched the iranian consulate and the offices of iranian like militias and pull it. parties more than two dozen people were killed iraqis were bad up thirty thousand people became ill from drinking poll

fighters still around in iraq and syria. and where they are we don't really know exactly although we know that there are pockets of in terms of recruitment for for future members of vizsla this loss of the caliphate you get this beacon if you like to many that helped rule thousands of fighters and now it's gone how does how does isolate splay not a way to potential recruits when you think that we disillusion you what people are looking forward to is that. there is a caliphate which is the place where all the muslims want to be this new beautiful new state now that is gone so but that's not the only thing the ideology this ideology is is still there amongst radical sunni muslims in iraq and isis had quite a following amongst them it was not just that people were following them because they were going to get them back into power it's also religious and that religious aspect is still there when you want to come in i think. it's very much like a d. to for me because we have seen this many times before we have seen it for example

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fighters still around in iraq and syria. and where they are we don't really know exactly although we know that there are pockets of in terms of recruitment for for future members of vizsla this loss of the caliphate you get this beacon if you like to many that helped rule thousands of fighters and now it's gone how does how does i sleep splay not a way to potential recruits when you think that we disillusionment you what people are looking forward to is that. there is a caliphate which is the place where all the muslims want to be this new beautiful new state now that is gone so but that's not the only thing the ideology the ideology is is still there amongst radical sunni muslims in iraq and isis had quite a following amongst them it was not just that people were following them because they were going to get them back into power it's also religious and that religious aspect is still there when you want to come in but i think. it's very much like at the who for me because we have seen this many times before we have seen it f

fighters still around in iraq and syria. and where they are we don't really know exactly although we know that there are pockets of in terms of recruitment for for future members of vizsla this loss of the caliphate you get this beacon if you like to many that helped rule thousands of fighters and now it's gone how does how does i sleep splay not a way to potential recruits when you think that we disillusion you what people are looking forward to is that. there is a caliphate which is the place where all the muslims want to be this new beautiful new state now that is gone so but that's not the only thing the ideology this ideology is is still there amongst radical sunni muslims in iraq and isis had quite a following amongst them it was not just that people were following them because they were going to get them back into power it's also religious and that religious aspect is still there when you want to come in i think. it's very much like a the the jet blue for me because we have seen this many times before we have seen it

these you have this all saw the spirit of almost all over the world and then the world again and in iraq and after two thousand and three and now actually after i mean destroying that he laughed in syria i fear that many of those fighters actually would be would be making it back home so they are i mean on countries because don't forget that after all the bulk of isis fighters actually are foreigners and we have some from europe some from the former soviet republic some from arab countries almost everywhere we have at least eighty nationalities within i salute and far less so i believe that some of them will make it back home and they are going to create problems for their own countries and now in my opinion where as i said has been in fact the third italian entity of ice that has been destroyed in syria now the hunt is going to be for those actually who have survived and they are going to strike back in my opinion because as i said earlier and this you deal with the root causes of this phenomenon we're not going to see that he end of it ok bloom what we know it was just referring there

from iraq you've covered conflicts in iraq afghanistan yemen and beyond gave how do the iraqi people remember blackwater and erik prince in your view i mean it's amazing to kind of sit here and listen to eric and speak of a block or so in the services they did in iraq because the word blackwater is synonymous with the words of the american occupation of iraq that is not a single iraqi that i you know i mean i'm one of those barbarians that was liberated by your country but there is not a single you who would you just mention the word black was as to who would not say corruption violence and i'm not talking only about the kind of massacre but i'm talking about the whole ten years of the existence of these muslims and i think part of the failure of the american project and out of was due to the using of the continent is it not is a major problem that you could concede that even if your plan is a good one you shouldn't be the one doing it given the legacy you've left behind with certainly here is the thing your your math is a little skewed because the us didn't invade iraq till two thou

very similar to what happened in iraq where the divide in iraq did not exist.ertainly not violently. the civil war that was raging in iraq 10 years ago until the united states invaded. you can trace this back to the native americans. the united states military has used a policy of paying off one ethnic group, one religious group, one tribal group against another for centuries now. the importance and understandings about the pashtun s in afghanistan constitutes for the whole of the insurgency. they constitute almost nothing of the afghan government and afghan military. you can point and say the president of afghanistan is pashtuns, but that is like pointing to president obama and saying that because we had a black president of the united states, we do have any racial problems in the united states or that there is not a wealth gap between blacks and whites in the u.s. because we had a black president. you had a this insurgency is completely composed of pashtuns, a guest a government and an army that was only 4% pashtun. brian: you are talking about the army of af

this is iraq on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera china's aviation authority as all of its airlines to ground all boeing seven three seven planes following the crash of an ethiopian airlines jet it went down shortly after takeoff on sunday killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board chinese airlines make up about twenty percent of the rivers at the new model but in. algeria and state t.v. says president. receiving medical treatment in switzerland is facing mass demonstrations for seeking a fifth term in office. and u.s. backed fighters in syria have launched a final offensive on the last area held by isis kurdish led syrian democratic forces say the assault. will be over in days thousands of civilians are believed to be trapped in the old place. now a top democrat in the u.s. congress is accusing blackwater found erik prince of not telling the truth about a trump town meeting in june the twenty sixteen presidential campaign is what prince told al-jazeera journal

hoh: iraq twice and afghanistan once. worked for the state department in afghanistan for a period of five months. i could not do any more than that. brian: before i forget, what is the white flour on your lapel? capt. hoh: most people are familiar with the red poppy that recognizes soldiers. the white poppy recognizes the death of everyone involved in combat, soldier and civilian alike. it is to remember all the losses who suffered in war. brian: how have you recovered, at what point have you recovered from ptsd, the concussion, and all that stuff? capt. hoh: i take 19 pills a day, sometimes as many as 26. the migraines, the exhaustion of being overwhelmed, mood issues, i go to therapy weekly. i have a great therapist. -- i only doary things like this when i am able to. i certainly do not work. i am 100% disabled. i can't work. i just a have the ability to do it full-time. after an interview like this, sitting with you for an hour, i will probably sleep 14 or 16 hours to recover. the next couple of days will be not good d

liberate iraq from saddam hussein who did a lot more horrid things than we can even speak of here that was certainly the intent i certainly had no role in that policy decision ok but you don't you don't believe iraq is above areas of you know but i believe that terrorists that car bombs in the city square certainly are ok you're proposing now to privatized the u.s. led war in afghanistan you suggested replacing almost fifty thousand nato troops and private contractors with two thousand u.s. special operators and six thousand contractors and you want to cut spending there you think by thirty billion dollars which sounds great and i think one thing we can definitely grown as we both think the afghan war is not going well and has been a bit of a failure but given one hundred forty thousand nato troops couldn't control that country would defeat the taliban back in twenty eleven what on earth makes you think that a few thousand contractors are going to do it now under your command because after nine eleven i'll take you back in the five days after nine eleven happened when president bush ha

iran's president hassan rouhani has arrived in iraq for his first official visit president rouhani is in baghdad to convince leaders to defy the u.s. president trump administration is giving iraq a few more months to continue buying oil and electricity from iran fourteen forces sanctions against iran that are going to aim joins us now from baghdad and this comes at a very crucial time for iran's economy doesn't it. it sure does sammy the clock is ticking this on may fifth the united states gave iraq a waiver meeting it could continue to purchase electricity and oil from iran but that expires on may fifth and after that it's unclear what iraq will do on the iranian front this comes as you said at a delicate moment for president rouhani since the united states reimpose saying sions last year the economy has continued to deteriorate and he is facing pressure from within there of even been calls for his ouster so he comes to iraq with the hope of bolstering economic ties between iraq and iran and with the hope of sending a clear message to the united states that this relationship between

from iraq you've covered conflicts in iraq afghanistan yemen and beyond gate how do the iraqi people remember blackwater and erik prince in your view i mean it's amazing to kind of sit here and listen to eric and speak of a block or so in the services they did in iraq because the word blackwater is synonymous with the worst of the american occupation of iraq that is not a single iraqi that i you know i mean i'm one of those barbarians that was liberated by your country but there is not a single you who would you just mention the word black was as to who would not say corruption violence and i'm not talking only about the kind of massacre but i'm talking about the whole ten years of the existence of these muslims and i think part of the failure of the american project and out of was due to the using of the continent is it is a major problem that you could concede that even if your plan is a good one you shouldn't be the one doing it given the legacy you've left behind with certainly here is the thing your your math is a little skewed because the us didn't invade iraq till two thousand

rouhani doesn't care about iraq's welfare there must be mutual respect among regional countries to iraq and its sovereignty and no interference or meddling in our internal affairs we need to rebuild iraq from our own resources. that you president are hoping to establish a free trade zone along there more than fourteen hundred kilometer border build a railway link and increased political cooperation the neighbors say the stability and prosperity of the region depend on it but the trumpet ministration views iran as a destabilizing influence iraq is in the middle struggling for normalcy and depending on both countries natasha going to al-jazeera baghdad iran has sentenced a leading human rights lawyer to at least seven years in prison but a family says the real jail term is much longer not seen so the day's husband says she's been given a prison sentence of thirty eight years as well as one hundred forty eight lashes she was arrested in june and charged with spying insulting the country's supreme leader and spreading false information about the state last year the fifty five year old defen

from the iran iraq war to the u.s. invasion and the battle with eisel it became a casualty and closed now for the first time in nine years the government found enough funding to host it there's a kind of arts revival happening in baghdad but the ministry of culture says it doesn't have the money it needs to promote the arts community in iraq less than one percent of this year's budget was devoted to the ministry so artists and international organizations are collaborating to try to fill the gap the spanish embassy held this event to promote a new generation of iraqi artists iraq has always had of great artist. but these also one of the youngest countries in the middle east. are in the side of the older artist the headlines gallery in the capital is allowing artists to stage exhibits for free it's another way to allow emerging talent to bring creations out of workshops to the eyes of potential buyers the work of some artists takes an unsparing look at the horrors of iraq's recent history while others paid a more whimsic

syria or iraq maybe they don't deserve the citizenship. all. of the question then that would be lead to the indication that they would have to kind of either be stateless people permanently or they would have to face the arbitrary legal structures of syria or iraq and be confined to that and stuck with that so that's something that they have to face and iraq has definitely been taking a strong initiatives against former theirs with questionable rule of law with questionable adherence to the western legal standards so they are having to bore into iraq and the iraqi legal system is very likely that these people will be either kept there indefinitely and then when they go up even be kept in prison for twenty years thirty years less that you mentioned they had the russian policy on their repatriating the isis family members and there's been an active effort for more than a year and a half that has not actually been publicized in the russian media because i think the russian public opinion is also. strongly and he says in this regard people are legi

i went back to iraq and was a defense attorney in the u.s. federal court in iraq. a cross examine the accuser. my client was acquitted on all charges. in the no's on the next two cases, one of them took place in iraq as well. those were both acquitted two. after that i became the officer texas oklahoma. for the navy legal. i saw cases in that area of the operation. i had a case outside of chicago, i did that for two years. >> you served on the local level? >> i got out on my drive from where i was stationed in texas back to pittsburgh in my hometown to be on the commission. i did that and then i ran for district judge, and not provided about a year end a half and i focused on solving the root cause of problems. mental health screenings, reform the way that we do truancy. i had a chance to run for state senate then. i was very fortunate, i ran in the democrat, what was the democrat seat, and that was 2015. >> password to now? >> i am 35. >> i ran at 29 and plaintiff commission at 28. >> why did you decide to run for the u.s. house of representatives seat? >> i felt

that's when i saw was pushed out of iraq's second largest city mosul. at the same time syrian democratic forces backed by coalition airstrikes mounted an operation against the group's last major stronghold the city of iraq and syria i saw lost that battle in october the same year. now all that remains of the group is pockets of fighters confined to small areas in iraq and syria analysts say the decline for ice all began with its attempt to take a town on the syrian turkish border in september two thousand and fourteen that's kabbani over there the siege of qubani on the turkey syria border is considered to be a turning point in the battle against eisel turkey were very worried that they managed to get this close to the turkish border so they allowed both the kurdish peshmerga and free syrian army forces to use their territory to go into kabul in conjunction with the wipe e.g. they were able to force i saw fighters on the outskirts of the town for many it's considered the beginning of the end feisal as caliphate in just a few short years eisel lost its t

after two gulf wars in iraq western powers fail to give sufficient thought to what happened after victory terror groups like the islamic states exploited the chaos today human rights watch accused iraq's government and kurdish authorities of detaining and torturing children with alleged links to i asked i'm phil going in berlin and this is the day. my son has nothing to do with i.x. he wasn't trained by apps that people thought he was because of his father. they said confess you were with i guess i told him i wasn't think force me to confess. khalil the police said well just ask him a question and bring him back but he's been gone for four months i want to know what happened if he's alive or dead and they put out cigarettes on me. they hit me with cables and sticks they hit us and tortured us. being away from my family is really hard. i haven't seen the for two years and four months i think about them twenty four hours a day. so human rights watch says the iraqi government has charged hundreds of children with terrorism because of their links to islamic state then joe says the iraqis on t

iran hopes iraq will help it get around these sanctions.resident rouhani's innate difficult situation right now. it is putting pressure on the currency. they need to develop business inside the region. iraq has been saying they will not follow sanction programs from foreign countries to their neighbors, but this is the toficulty for the irrqis, manage this balancing act. >> thank ou. and%g to syria, u.s.-backed kurdish forces have resumed fighting islamii state militants. they are expected to declare the end of the caliphate. it is still a majajor security threat. >> it is the laat city in islamic state group hands, under fire. days, theyn three will route the fighters outut. for weeks, they pushed militants into this territory. schelling is powowerful. >> the operation will continue until the terrorists are no longer actctive in the area. >> is this the final battle? ttey thought it would wipe out the militantt. on march 1, it suspended the fighting, concerned civilians were trapped. since then, thousands have fled. among thhm, civilians a

the group are still there when it's comes to all the political settlement that's pending whether in iraq or in syria so the root causes that led to the emergence of this group remaining this is why the military operation is may be all over however that threat is there. and. chances are high that when it came to the type of a tactic that the that he would be using and he will resort in my if you will to move to get a law type of operation instead of a classical type of warfare that we have been witnessing in syria lately that if a device all in the northern iraqi town of sin jar in two thousand and fifteen has left a power vacuum the area is rife with competing armed groups vying for control lack of agreement among them is preventing thousands of people from the minority and zina communities who fled eisel from returning home shell stratford reports from the more. there's a piece of fears eisel either killed his wife or like many young women sold into slavery she disappeared in two thousand and fourteen when along with tens of thousands of other families from iraq's minority easy communit

all the islamic state of iraq in the levant to began with this man. khouri who found that al-qaeda in iraq and planted the seeds of a so-called islamic state after his death in two thousand and six his group was rebranded and broke ranks with al qaeda to form what later became known as i saw by two thousand and eleven there was a political uprising against the syrian president bashar al assad and in iraq by two thousand and thirteen sunni minorities were demanding more political rights i so took advantage of the disorder in both countries and by early two thousand and fifteen it had captured that large parts of iraq and syria well mohammed frazer here is executive director of north america for the quilliam international a counter extremism organization he joins us live now from washington d.c. so thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so i guess i saw as you know a so-called state but certainly a state the controls i think at the most it was eighty eight thousand square kilometers of land that i saw is finished but where does it leave i s

it's a question iraq is tryiyig to answer. the so-called islamic state organization first appeared in iraq in 2004, and expanded the territory it controlled over the next decade, until it covered a third of the country as well as large parts of syria. after i.s. declared a caliphate in 2014, an international alliance began launching air strikes to drive it back out of occupied areas. in july of 2017, government troops retook the city of mosul, and iraq soon claimed victory over the terrorist organization. thousands of i.s. fighters killed in the fighting, however, left families behind. reporter: winter in iraq is cold and wet. khamail khalaf has hung the laundry y up outside.. ththe blankets t take ages to . she lives inin t hammam m -alil camp near r mosul. everyone h here lost theheir hs in iraq's war against the rrrrorist lititia lamic state. life is a daily struggle f khaml. she looks after her eitt childrenen all by herselelf. heher husband wawas an i.s. fir who s kikilledn the e wa that's's made her anand the chin ououtc

they have to face in iraq has definitely been. traced. wrong initiatives against former as fighters with questionable rule of law with questionable adherence to the western legal standards so they are having to bore into iraq and they get sucked into the iraqi legal system is very likely that these people will be either kept there indefinitely and then when they go up even be kept in prison for up to twenty years thirty years less that you mentioned they had the russian policy on their repatriating the isis family members and there has been an active effort for more than a year and a half that has not actually been publicized not much in the russian media because i think the russian public opinion is also. strongly and he threatened the future and yet there has been an active effort to bring back both women and children but i think nowadays especially the children do you take that as russia's p.r. as afeard of sorts or do you think that is a genuine expression of i hate this word values there that's an interesting question i don't

i got selected to go to the central criminal court of iraq, the iraq central court system. we were prosecuting terrorists in the iraqi system. usinguting terrorists iraqi law, with iraqi judges. amazing experience. terrorists yout prosecuted? >> over there you prosecuting .roups 92 convictions. 13 of those were for the death penalty. >> how younger you? >> 26. -- how young were you? what did it teach you? >> it gave me an appreciation for the u.s. it gave me optimism for our role in the world. us forf iraqis looked to examples of rule of law, justice, separation of church and state in government. it gave me hope for the future in general. i felt so many people were interested in our western style of government and justice. it was phenomenal. >> when you returned, what did you do next? i got a caseays, with a navy seal falsely accused of abuse of a terrorist. i was one of the attorneys. i ended up going back to iraq. this time i was a defense attorney in u.s. federal court in iraq. my client was fully acquitted of all charges. i became the officer in charge for navy legal. i

in syria more because in iraq. there is like more stability right now and the country what we need the iraqi government to give more power more share for the sunni. population of the country so that actually they find. an alternative to isis. i don't join another wave of jihadists the future of this policy continues to have to be pursued well speaking of the jihadists not all the fighters were captured or killed where have they gone now and what's likely to happen in terms of potential threats at home for foreign fighters returning back to different countries i believe we are facing here. in fact because we have seen that after the end of the afghanistan war in the early ninety's when most of the of a gun obs actually turned back to the home countries. and found a very dire situation in the sense of having these are the james. dictators. corruption in these controversies or. lack of development saw these fighters actually joined in and local democracy indeed because if we look at their geo for example nine hundred