Slate Magazine (blog) | US agrees to send new arms, artillery to Iraq to fight Al Qaeda Fox News ADVERTISEMENT. The United States has agreed to send new arms to Iraq to thwart Al Qaeda-linked militants currently controlling Fallujah following a request by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, senior defense officials told Fox News. Army Col. Steve ... Pentagon sending weapons to Iraq It's not 'our' Iraq anymore Dempsey Disappointed by Setbacks in Iraq |
CNN | Iraq: Moderates are hard to find as 'bad old days' return in Baghdad CNN Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Even in the darkest, deadliest days of Iraq's war, you'd find people still hopeful it would all work out. That the killings would stop, the bad guys would be routed and a stability of some sort would return. That the Americans ... US Preparing to Send Iraq Small Arms to Fight Militants US Preparing Small Arms, Ammunition Support for Iraq Iraq's Maliki says he has asked for weapons from US, will also seek training ... |
Marines investigate photos from Iraq that reportedly show troops burning bodies CNN "The actions depicted in these photos are not what we expect from our service members, nor do they represent the honorable and professional service of the more than 2.5 million Americans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan," the Defense Department ... |
Christian Science Monitor | Robert Gates: In Iraq, US achieved its 'minimal objectives' Christian Science Monitor Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says America accomplished what it intended to in Iraq, despite the growing violence on the ground there. Skip to next paragraph. In Pictures US military muscle. Related stories. Robert Gates memoir: Top 5 ... |
Hurriyet Daily News | Iraq to punish Turkey, Kurds over 'smuggled' oil - minister Reuters UK Abdul Kareem Luaibi told reporters the government was preparing legal action against Ankara and would blacklist any companies dealing with oil piped to Turkey from Iraq's autonomous northern region without permission from Baghdad. The Kurdistan ... Iraq could simply make peace with the Kurds but opts instead to cut off all ... Iraq to punish Turkey, Kurds over 'smuggled' oil exports: Minister Iraq Warns Turkey, Kurds Over Unauthorized Oil Exports |
New Yorker (blog) | What the War in Iraq Wrought New Yorker (blog) It's been nearly eleven years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which, almost since it began, proved to be the historically fatal element in the war on terror launched by George W. Bush's White House. His Administration, and its sundry neoconservative ... |
US Shipping More Weapons, Ammunition To Embattled Iraq Huffington Post WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says it will soon deliver to Iraq another installment of small arms and ammunition requested by Baghdad as it battles al-Qaida militants for control of Fallujah and other key cities in Anbar province. A Pentagon ... |
Lake Wylie Pilot | Iraq bound: Gift-filled shoeboxes to Syrian kids in refugee camps Charlotte Observer The Operation Christmas Child program of Samaritan's Purse is sending more than 65,000 shoebox gifts to Syrian children living in refugee camps in northern Iraq. Buy Photo | Store. http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2014/01/17/14/52/QLmzP. 65K shoeboxes filled with toys, school supplies head to Iraq |
Militants Unleash Wave of Violence in Iraq, Killing Dozens New York Times BAGHDAD — Militants launched lethal and coordinated car bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday, killed truck drivers outside the city and detonated explosives at a funeral tent in a village during one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence in Iraq so far ... |
CNN International | 61 killed in latest wave of Iraq attacks CNN International The United Nations said 2013 was the deadliest year in Iraq since 2008, with almost 8,000 people killed, most of them civilians. Fears of all-out sectarian war have increased since violence broke out in Anbar province in recent days. Much of the ... |