...no fly" zones created in the north and south after the Gulf war ended in 1991. The patrols, designed to keep Iraq's air force away from Kurdish and Shiite areas of the country, often draw Iraqi anti-aircraft fire and radar tracking, to...

...the box," the Brookings Institution's Ivo Daalder said, adding that the zones also have curtailed training by Iraq's air force. Together, the zones cover some two-thirds of Iraq. "I think the zones are problematic," said the Cato Institute's...