Based on eyewitness reporting, War in the Age of Trump captures the powerful forces driving the permanent crisis in the Middle East under Trump. Elected in 2016, Trump became president just as the nine-month siege of Isis in Mosul was beginning. His first term saw the fall of the Kurds in Iraq and Syria, the advance of Turkey, and the apparent stabilization of Iraq up until the mass street protests began in 2019. Throughout this period, the conflict between the US and Iran has escalated, culminating in Trump ordering the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in 2020. Patrick Cockburn has long been considered the most significant commentator on the US-led intervention in the region, an often critical yet impartial judge of events. He shows how Iraq and Syria became the arena for a proxy war involving the United States, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other powers. Cockburn vividly brings to life how soldiers at war and civilians under bombardment experience and try to survive these devastating conflicts. He asks the most pressing questions about the region today. Has ISIS been permanently defeated or could it take advantage of the mounting chaos to stage a comeback? Will clashes between America and Iran ultimately lead to war? War in the Age of Trump is a groundbreaking account of the current disintegration of the Middle East by the man the New York Times described as the greatest living foreign correspondent in English.

ISBN: 9781839760402