The Tide is Turning in Iraq (The Wall Street Journal)
September 9, 2007 - Kimberly Kagan![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/baggy.jpg?itok=Z_GMXjLt)
Operations and events on the ground are already showing successes well beyond Baghdad in Anbar, Diyala and Salah ad-Din provinces--formerly al-Qaeda strongholds and hotbeds of the Sunni insurgency.