Aljazeera.com | Iraq dislodges insurgents from city of Samarra with airstrikes Reuters The offensive is part of an escalating conflict between Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim-led government and Sunni Islamist militants who have been regaining momentum in the past year, particularly in the west of the country bordering Syria. The Iraqi army and ... Deadly fighting erupts in Iraq's Samarra 23 killed in clashes in Iraqi city of Samarra, health officials say Six killed as militants assault Iraq's Samarra |
The Economist (blog) | The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria The Economist (blog) FOUR masked men raided Fateh Rahmoun's house in Ras al-Hussein, a village in Syria's north-western province of Idleb. Heavily-armed and wearing belts of explosives, one shot the 13-year-old boy who opened the door while the others stormed into the ... |
Aljazeera.com | Bombings Strike Busy Areas in Iraq, Killing 25 ABC News Iraq is experiencing its worst surge in violence since the sectarian bloodletting of 2006 and 2007, which pushed the country to the brink of civil war. The U.N. mission in Iraq said May was the deadliest month so far this year, with 799 Iraqis killed ... Deaths in fresh wave of Iraq violence Iraq: Shell Kills 12 from one Family in Fallujah – Fighting Outbreak in Ramadi Car bombs strike Iraq city as attacks kill 17 |
Washington Post | In new book, Clinton disavows Iraq vote and details differences with Obama on ... Washington Post Hillary Rodham Clinton, using her strongest language yet to disavow her 2002 Senate vote authorizing military action in Iraq, writes in her forthcoming memoir that “I still got it wrong,” CBS News reported late Thursday. The former secretary of state ... In Memoir, Hillary Clinton Discusses Russia, Syria and Iraq In new memoir, Hillary Clinton makes stark admission on Iraq War vote: "I ... Clinton book covers Bergdahl, Benghazi, Iraq but not 2016 |
New York Magazine | (Photo: Michael Kamber) New York Magazine The Last Magazine—set at a fictional newsweekly called The Magazine that might as well go by Newsweek—tells the story of the run-up to the Iraq War from a perspective that many of his colleagues would like to forget or suppress: as an embed deep ... |
Washington Post (blog) | Hillary Clinton on Iraq vote: 'I still got it wrong. Plain and simple.' Washington Post (blog) Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her strongest language yet about her 2002 Senate vote to authorize military action in Iraq, writes in her forthcoming memoir that "I still got it wrong," CBS News reported Thursday afternoon. In "Hard Choices," Clinton, a ... |
www.worldbulletin.net | Iraq's Best Hope New York Times SULAIMANI, Iraq — I am a sucker for commencements, but this one filled me with many different emotions. As Dina Dara took the stage — the student speaker and valedictorian of the 2014 graduating class of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, ... Language barrier cuts between Iraq's Arabs and Kurds Ankara brushes off Iraq's Kurdish oil claims Iraq says crude oil exports rise slightly in May |
The ghosts of Iraq Columbia Journalism Review Coverage of chemical weapons in Syria is in some ways a story of redemption—for major news organizations, it's a chance to shake free the demons left over from their reporting in the lead-up to war in Iraq. In the months before the large-scale ... |
KPBS | Study: Iraq War Veterans Sickened By Camp Victory Dust KPBS New research shows an unique type of titanium-filled dust, found at Camp Victory in Iraq, has been discovered in the lungs of several Iraq War veterans suffering from respiratory problems. Dr. Anthony Szema of Stony Brook School of Medicine told USA ... New research links Iraq dust to ill soldiers New research links dust at Iraq's Camp Victory to ill soldiers Iraq Dust Linked To Widespread Soldier Illness |
Iraq POW's dad: Bergdahl trade a 'bad deal' USA TODAY UNION TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- The father of a Ohio soldier who was kidnapped by Iraqi insurgents and later killed says last weekend's trade of five senior Taliban commanders for America's only prisoner of war in Afghanistan was "a bad deal." Keith Maupin ... |