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Oil thirst rising as Iraq unrest boosts prices - USA TODAY Sat, 14 Jun 2014 00:04:01 GMT

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Oil thirst rising as Iraq unrest boosts prices
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As Iraq's mounting unrest pushes crude oil prices to their highest levels this year, a report Friday predicts that global oil demand will increase, but Iraq's supplies may not be at "immediate" risk. "Concerning as the latest events in Iraq may be ...
Fears About Iraq Continue to Push Up Oil PricesNew York Times
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US seeing signs Iran engaged in Iraq strife, official says - Fox News Sat, 14 Jun 2014 01:00:46 GMT

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US seeing signs Iran engaged in Iraq strife, official says
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The defense official told Fox News the United States had been watching the swift gains made by the Sunni group known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) for months, adding "this didn't just happen." "This is bad," the official said, adding ...
ISIS militants still pressing forward in IraqCNN International
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US won't intervene in Iraq in absence of political reform by Iraqis, Obama saysWashington Post
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Obama on Iraq: 'The United States will do its part' - USA TODAY Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:36:21 GMT

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Obama on Iraq: 'The United States will do its part'
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WASHINGTON — President Obama vowed again Friday to help Iraq's government fight insurgents who are closing in on Baghdad, while a senior defense official told USA TODAY that American air power options are currently limited. "The United States will do ...

Who's to blame for Iraq crisis - CNN Fri, 13 Jun 2014 20:25:40 GMT

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Who's to blame for Iraq crisis
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(CNN) -- Observers around the world are stunned by the speed and scope of this week's assaults on every major city in the upper Tigris River Valley -- including Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city -- by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. But ...

Iraqi Shiite Cleric Issues Call to Arms Against Sunni Militants - New York Times Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:41:50 GMT

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Iraqi Shiite Cleric Issues Call to Arms Against Sunni Militants
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BAGHDAD — Iraq's top Shiite cleric exhorted all able-bodied Iraqis to take up arms Friday to combat the marauding Sunni extremist militants who have seized broad stretches of the country this week and are threatening the wobbly Shiite-led central ...

Back to Iraq: What can -- and should -- the US do now? - CNN Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:17:46 GMT

Back to Iraq: What can -- and should -- the US do now?
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(CNN) -- For better or worse, Iraq and the United States have been attached at the hip for decades. From the 1991 Gulf War to the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein to subsequent years marred by violence and instability, there's no doubting the ...

Obama Finds He Can't Put Iraq Behind Him - New York Times Fri, 13 Jun 2014 22:52:40 GMT

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Obama Finds He Can't Put Iraq Behind Him
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WASHINGTON — In a high-profile speech to Army cadets last month, President Obama tried to move beyond America's tumultuous adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan with a new doctrine all but forswearing the use of military power except in the most dire of ...

11 facts that explain the escalating crisis in Iraq - Vox Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:53:54 GMT

11 facts that explain the escalating crisis in Iraq
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The crisis in Iraq is tectonically important. Fighting between the Iraqi government and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (or, as it's abbreviated, ISIS) is tearing Iraq apart. The conflict has the potential to transform the politics of the ...

Obama Rules Out Sending American Troops 'Back into Combat' in Iraq - ABC News Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:54:15 GMT

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Obama Rules Out Sending American Troops 'Back into Combat' in Iraq
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But as several cities in the once American-occupied nation fall under the flags of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, Obama told reporters his National Security Council was still considering options. “I'll be reviewing those options in the ...

UN Warns of Rights Abuses and Hundreds Dead in Iraq Fighting - New York Times Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:38:53 GMT

UN Warns of Rights Abuses and Hundreds Dead in Iraq Fighting
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Ms. Pillay said in a statement that she was deeply disturbed by reports that fighters belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria “including prisoners they had released from jails in Mosul and provided with arms, have been actively seeking out ...