Iraq Situation Report: January 12 - 19, 2016
January 20, 2016 - Patrick Martin![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/iraq%20SITREP%202016-01-19%20high_0.png?itok=aKomJmGG)
Iraqi Shi’a militias significantly escalated their confrontation with the U.S. by kidnapping three American contractors and an interpreter in southern Baghdad on January 15.