Christian Science Monitor | US Iraq Withdrawal a Gift to Iran? No, the US Iraq Invasion Was the Gift to Iran TIME (blog) Outlandish posturing on foreign policy matters is par for the course in a US electoral season, but the claim that President Barack Obama will deliver Iraq on a plate to Iran by honoring the US treaty obligation to withdraw American troops by New Year's ... US enters Libya, leaves Iraq Iraq war: We should have never been there Iraq war will cost more than World War II |
Los Angeles Times | Five Charged in Iranian Smuggling Network Linked to Iraq IEDs ABC News (blog) The Justice Department has charged five people, including an Iranian man, and four companies with illegally exporting specialized transmitters from a US company to Iran that later were found in unexploded improvised explosive devices in Iraq. ... Iraq Bombs Built With U.S. Exports to Iran, Prosecutors Say US modules used to trigger IEDs in Iraq, officials say How 'Made in USA' parts wound up in Iraqi bombs; US indicts Iranian ring |
AFP | Turkey Hits Group of Militants Inside Iraq Wall Street Journal VAN, Turkey—Turkey's military engaged in full combat with militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party inside Iraq on Tuesday, said the PKK, as the group is known. The PKK saıd around 1000 Turkish troops with heavy weaponry had ... Turkish forces target PKK Iraq camp: sources Iraq border guards and PKK deny Turkey incursion Turkey moves back in Iraq as US withdraws |
The State Column | Udall Statement on Iraq Troop Drawdown The State Column “I applaud President Obama for his commitment to bringing the war in Iraq to a close and commend our armed forces and the many other Americans whose exemplary service has made ending the war a reality. I was opposed to the war in Iraq from the ... Talk of the County Iraq war costs may mark shift in US approach Costly Iraq war may mark shift in US approach |
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4481 Tuesday, according to Associated Press ... Washington Post As of Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, at least 4481 members of the US military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action. ... US military deaths in Iraq war at 4481 US military deaths in Iraq war at 4481 |
Commentary | After Iraq War, US To Shift Focus to Asia Wall Street Journal The deluge of commentary following President Barack Obama's announcement that all American troops are leaving Iraq by year's end largely missed the most important strategic implication: The winding down of the wars in Iraq and ... Iraq Pullout Won't Boost US in the Pacific Pentagon To Hold The Line In South Korea |
Iraq rounds up Baathists ahead of US pullout Reuters Africa BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has arrested at least 240 former members of Saddam Hussein's banned Baath Party and ex-military officers over what some senior officials described as a plot to seize power after US troops ... Measures need to be taken against Awda Party |
Washington Times | Iraq withdrawal means U.S. is not an empire, Obama shouldn't boast Iraq and ... Washington Post (blog) AEI's Jonah Goldberg says the withdrawal from Iraq proves the US isn't an empire, but... “I'm solidly in the camp that sees this as a strategic blunder. Iraqi democracy is fragile and Iran's desire to undermine it is strong. ... Republicans criticize Obama on Libya, Iraq Graham: Obama “Failed” In Iraq Gadhafi death casts doubt on Libya's future |
Vanity Fair | Iraq's Bomb Squad: On the Ground with Iraq's Version of The Hurt Locker Team Vanity Fair Iraq's version of Jeremy Renner's slick, Steve McQueen–style bomb disposer in The Hurt Locker is Captain Nawa Ahmed and his colleagues—fighting among their families, on the home field. Neil Arun, a UK journalist who has covered the war in Iraq, ... On 'Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan,' Navy's bomb disposal unit gets its own star ... TV Struggles to Bring War Zones to Americans |
AFP | Baghdad bombs target traffic police, 1killed Seattle Post Intelligencer Relatives and friends of Iraqi traffic policeman Ali Hameed grieve during his funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Police said gunmen in a speeding car attacked a traffic police checkpoint in the center of ... US Iraq training program 'bottomless pit' for US taxpayers US training of Iraq cops slammed by watchdog State Department's police training program in Iraq lacks planning, report says |