New York Times | More Than 600 Reported Chemical Exposure in Iraq, Pentagon Acknowledges New York Times More than 600 American service members since 2003 have reported to military medical staff members that they believe they were exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq, but the Pentagon failed to recognize the scope of the reported cases or offer ... U.S. Mishandling Of Iraq's Chemical Weapons Worse Than Previously Thought Pentagon: Over 600 Service Members Reported Chemical Exposure in Iraq US troops claimed chemical weapons exposure in Iraq, report says |
The Guardian | Attacks in Iraq, Mainly Targeting Troops, Kill 13 ABC News A series of attacks, mainly against Iraqi troops, killed 13 people in Baghdad and in the country's west on Thursday as the government pressed ahead with a draft law meant to establish a community-based national guard force in efforts to mobilize Iraq's ... Troops will only go to Iraq for limited training mission, says defence secretary Back to Iraq: UK troops return to combat ISIS CENTCOM chief: More troops not the answer in Iraq |
ABC News | Islamic State Suffering Setbacks in Syria and Iraq ABC News For a force that has built its reputation on an aura of momentum and invincibility, the Islamic State group is now dealing with a series of military setbacks in Iraq and a prolonged stalemate in the small Syrian border town of Kobani. Gone are the days ... Canada Launches First Air Strikes in Iraq US general says anti-IS coalition focus remains on Iraq, not Syria |
Wall Street Journal | Iraq Plagued by Budget Crisis Amid Menace of Islamic State Wall Street Journal BAGHDAD—Another crisis is percolating in Iraq beneath the onslaught of Islamic State militants: a shrinking economy and a widening fiscal deficit that politicians and analysts worry will further undermine the country's ability to fight off the insurgents. |
New York Post | Mysterious Iranian general fights ISIS in Iraq New York Post In July, officials in Lebanon said a Hezbollah commander was killed while on a “jihadi mission” in Iraq. Ibrahim Mohammed al-Haj was buried in Lebanon and his funeral attended by top Hezbollah officials. It was the first known Hezbollah death in Iraq ... Iran general said to mastermind Iraq ground war ISIS mission: Shia militants key fighters in complicated Iraq scenario The Obama Administration's Biggest Problem In Iraq Is Painfully Ironic |
ABC News | Iraq Doesn't Want Foreign Fighters Against IS ABC News Relations between Ankara and Baghdad had soured in recent months due to the sale of oil by Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region to Turkey without Iraqi central government consent. Baghdad says it has the sole right to develop and market Iraq's natural ... Iraq doesn't want foreign fighters against Islamic State Battle for Iraq's largest oil refinery far from over FM meeting enhances Iraq-Turkey relations |
Bedford County organization confronts danger to aid refugees in Iraq WDBJ7 New at Five: The brutality of isis in Iraq is something most of us have only seen or heard about on television. a pastor in Bedford County has experienced the danger first hand. He's been traveling to the middle east, bringing aid to Christians who are ... |
The Atlantic | Tragic Setbacks for US Allies in Iraq and Syria The Atlantic "The fall of the village dampened the Shi'ite-led national government's hopes the Sunni tribesmen of Anbar—who once helped U.S. Marines defeat al Qaeda—would become a formidable force again and help the army take on Iraq's new, far more effective ... Fearing Uprising, Iraq Militants Hunt Ex-Police Canada conducts first airstrikes on IS targets in Iraq ISIS' mass executions of Sunni men, women and children in Iraq continues |
Defending a Divided Iraq Project Syndicate OXFORD – The United States and its allies are facing another major policy challenge in Iraq. Airstrikes against the Islamic State might unseat the group's fighters in critical areas; but, as things stand, troops will be needed to hold and govern ... |
Remembering the Iraq War's bloodiest battle, 10 years later Washington Post Lance Cpl. Christopher Adlesperger and his squad burst into a house in the Iraqi city of Fallujah 10 years ago this month, and immediately came under a hail of machine-gun fire. The first Marine into the building, Lance Cpl. Erick Hodges, was killed ... |