New York Times | Troops to Be Checked for Chemical Exposure in Iraq New York Times The Pentagon will offer medical examinations and long-term health monitoring to service members and veterans who were exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq, the Army and Navy said in separate statements this week, as part of a review of how the ... |
Islamic State 'kills 30 Sunni tribesmen' in Iraq BBC News Correspondents say the killings are most likely aimed at discouraging resistance from powerful local tribes, who will be key to any successful bid to retake Anbar province. Islamic State militants have killed hundreds in the large areas of Iraq and ... |
Al-Arabiya | ISIS militants execute more than 40 tribesmen in Iraq's Anbar Al-Arabiya Islamic state of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants executed 46 people and besieged 500 families in the Iraqi city of Heet, Al Arabiya News Channel's correspondent to Anbar reported on Wednesday. The militant group reportedly besieged displaced families ... |
The Intercept - First Look Media | Iraq War Now Being Fought By People Who Were Just Kids When It Started The Intercept - First Look Media Last week, the Pentagon announced the death of the first American serviceman in the war against ISIS. Marine Lance Cpl. Sean Neal was killed in what was described as a “non-combat incident” in Iraq, making him the first American to die in “Operation ... |
Sydney Morning Herald | Australian special forces unable to join fight against Islamic State until ... Sydney Morning Herald About 200 commandos are in the Middle East waiting to join the fight against Islamic State, but they have been told they cannot enter Iraq without valid visas. The Foreign Affairs Minister, Julie Bishop, was asked on Wednesday whether the troops were ... Vietnam's lessons in Iraq and Syria In Iraq: ISIS firing squad kills 30 near Baghdad Iraq's Abadi struggles to gain Sunni tribal support |
Australians fighting for Isis tracked in Iraq under fresh security proposals The Guardian The Abbott government is moving to grant the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (Asis) the specific power to co-operate with the ADF, which is conducting air strikes against Isis targets in Iraq and also sending special forces members to assist the ... |
Breitbart News | How Iran's Shadow War in Iraq Exploits the Islamic State Siege U.S. News & World Report Iraq was then under the leadership of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite Muslim. Austin observed that the country's leaders "don't see an enormous threat from Iran at this point,” despite what he considered a "stream of lethal accelerants ... ISIS Cashes in on Antiques from Shrines Destroyed in Iraq and Syria In Their Own Words: Sunnis on Their Treatment in Maliki's Iraq How the West buys 'conflict antiquities' from Iraq and Syria (and funds terror) |
Daily Mail | Britain to send Apache helicopters to Iraq in battle against ISIS Daily Mail Britain poised to send Apache helicopters to Iraq in battle against Isis: Move being considered because of fanatics' ability to change tactics quickly. Move would mark the first British Army involvement in a conflict role; Until now, only the Royal Air ... |
Reuters | Middle East Updates / ISIS releases 25 kidnapped Kurdish children from Kobani Haaretz ISIS militants line up, shoot dead 30 Sunni men in Iraq town; U.S. strikes ISIS command node in Kobani; Masked men burn two Saudi consulate cars in Egypt; U.S. air-drops supplies to Iraqi tribe that lost village to ISIS. By Haaretz | Oct. 29, 2014 | 9 ... US, allies stage 13 attacks on Islamic State targets in Syria, Iraq Iraqi Peshmerga soon to enter Kobani to fight ISIS Iraq reinforcements head to Kobani, but doubts linger over whether it's enough |
New York Times | Investigating Abandoned Chemical Weapons in Iraq New York Times An investigation by The New York Times found that during the Iraq War, American troops encountered aging chemical weapons abandoned years earlier, and that some servicemen injured by these munitions received inadequate care. Readers submitted a ... |