New York Times | Blackwater Guards Found Guilty in 2007 Iraq Killings New York Times WASHINGTON — Four former Blackwater Worldwide security guards were convicted and immediately jailed Wednesday for their roles in a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad's Nisour Square that marked a bloody nadir in America's war in Iraq. A jury in ... Jury Finds Blackwater Guards Guilty of Iraq Shootings Four Blackwater guards found guilty in 2007 Iraq shootings of 31 unarmed civilians Blackwater Guards Found Guilty in Iraq Shootings |
Foreign Policy | Get Ready for Iraq War IV Foreign Policy The first Iraq war was necessary and conducted well, as wars go; the second was unnecessary and conducted poorly at first, but ended up in a reasonable place given what a fiasco it had been at the start. This third war was entirely preventable, caused ... |
Asharq Alawsat English | ISIS threatens Iraq's priceless cultural heritage CNN Baghdad (CNN) -- There's been no shortage of news coverage of the atrocities carried out by ISIS against the people of Iraq and Syria, from beheadings to massacres to selling kidnapped women into sexual slavery. What's less well known is the ... We will liberate Mosul from ISIS: Iraq Defense Minister ISIS threatens Iraq's priceless heritage |
Reuters | Air strikes kill around 25 Islamic State fighters in Iraq: residents Reuters The United States and other Western countries have repeatedly bombed the Sunni jihadist group's positions in Iraq - including in the Fallujah area on Wednesday - and Gulf monarchies have also taken part in air strikes against it in Syria which began ... War with Isis: US and Iraq draw up plan for ground force attack on Islamist ... How ISIS is devastating Iraq's schools We could have left Iraq better than we did, especially in handling of Sunni ... |
The Guardian | US ordered to explain withholding of Iraq and Afghanistan torture photos The Guardian The return of the US to war in Iraq raises the stakes for the case. Unlike in 2012, when Panetta certified that the release of the photographs would endanger the US military in Afghanistan, some 1,600 US troops are also now in Iraq again, this time to ... Obama Withholding 2100 Iraq and Afghanistan Torture Photos 'Worse than Abu ... Judge Slams Obama Administration for Hiding Torture Photos From Iraq ... Tribes in tense Abu Ghraib vow to keep IS out |
Deadspin | Here's How 9/11 Truther Pete Carroll Would Have Prevented The Iraq War Deadspin Seattle Times staff columnist Jerry Brewer's latest column begins with a conversation he had with Seattle Seahawks head coach and noted 9/11 truther Pete Carroll over a year ago. Somehow, the conversation veered into Carroll laying out his plan for ... Pete Carroll Told a Reporter He Knows How to Properly Pacify Iraq |
Fox News | Mortar shells land inside Baghdad's Green Zone as deadly bombings hit Iraq Fox News No one immediately claimed responsibility for the latest attacks but they bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State, which has captured large chunks of territory in western and northern Iraq, plunging the country into its worst crisis since U.S. troops ... Iran President Pledges to Back Iraq Amid Attacks Consumed by Islamic State, Iraq's Anbar province a key battleground again 40 Are Killed in Attacks Targeting Shiites in Iraq |
Center for Research on Globalization | Canada: Withdraw From The US-led Coalition For War in Iraq and Syria! Center for Research on Globalization 1) The recent divisive vote to deploy warplanes, reconnaissance aircraft, support personnel, and special forces on a combat mission to Iraq – carried only by the Conservative government's slim majority in Parliament – was a bad decision. It will make ... Iraq asks for air strikes on ISIL in Kirkuk Iraq: Car bombs rock Baghdad killing at least 21 people Airstrikes Continue Against ISIL Targets in Syria, Iraq |
The Guardian | Isis ascent in Syria and Iraq weakening Pakistani Taliban The Guardian The dramatic rise of Islamic State (Isis) in Syria and Iraq is helping to tear apart the Pakistani Taliban, the beleaguered militant group beset by infighting and splits. Once the country's largest and most feared militant coalition, the Tehreek-e ... |
The Guardian | Five Britons a week travel to Iraq and Syria to join Isis, says Met chief The Guardian Five Britons are travelling to Iraq and Syria to join Islamic State (Isis) every week, the UK's most senior police officer has revealed, after reports that a third jihadi from Portsmouth has been killed in the conflict. The Metropolitan police ... |