الحروب في عهد ترامب.. كشف ادعاءات السلام المزيفة

In this successor to his best-selling The Rise of the Islamic State, which has been translated into 16 languages, and his widely acclaimed The Age of Jihad, award-winning foreign correspondent Patrick Cockburn provides a clear and accurate account of Donald Trump's Middle East wars during his first term. From the interviews he conducted via weak phone calls with Iraqis about to be killed in Mosul besieged by ISIS, to the gunshots heard in his Iraqi hotel room, not far from Tahrir Square where protests were escalating into a national uprising that was brutally suppressed; From the destruction of Raqqa, Afrin, and Eastern Ghouta, to the Turkish ethnic cleansing of the Kurds in northeastern Syria, Cockburn opens a vivid window on the end of the ISIS caliphate, the successive defeats of the Kurds, and the escalation of the American confrontation with Iran, which culminated in the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani that shook the world. Donald Trump claimed that his presidency would put an end to America's involvement in "messy" foreign wars. In this important and necessary book, Patrick Cockburn reveals how his sporadic adventures not only contributed to the continuation of large-scale interventions, but added a dangerous layer of chaos and unpredictability.