USA TODAY | Iraq is already splitting into three states USA TODAY Ever since U.S. forces invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, the U.S. government has worried that Iraq would splinter into three states — each representing the feuding religious and ethnic factions the dictator held together through his ... Other crises muscle onto world stage just as Iraq is coming undone Shiite Militia Displays Jihadist Bodies in Iraq City Dempsey Says Iraq Air Strikes Still a Possibility |
New York Daily News | Iraq's Under-Fire Christians Offered Refuge by France NBCNews.com An Iraqi Christian family fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul, sleeps inside the Sacred Heart of Jesus Chaldean Church in Telkaif near Mosul, in the province of Nineveh, July 20, 2014. The head of Iraq's largest church said on Sunday that ... Iraq's abandoned Christians ISIS levels 14th century mosque in Iraq's second largest city In Iraq's Mosul, Radicals Unleash Their Vision |
Reuters | UN Condemns Terrorist Oil Sales From Iraq, Syria ABC News A presidential statement approved by all 15 council members targets two terrorist groups already subject to U.N. sanctions: Jabhat al-Nusra, one of the most powerful Syrian rebel groups; and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, which has seized a ... UN warns of sanctions for oil trading with Syria, Iraq militants ISIS threatening to redraw Mideast borders |
Let Sunnis Defeat Iraq's Militants New York Times THE situation in Iraq today is perilous, particularly for Sunni Muslim Arabs. Their prospects for inclusion in Iraq's government and fair treatment from it have been declining since 2010, when Iraqiyya, the nonsectarian coalition to which we belonged ... |
CNBC.com | Iraq lays claim to Kurdish crude cargo in Texas court Reuters HOUSTON (Reuters) - Iraq filed suit on Monday in a Texas court to gain control of a cargo of crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan that Baghdad says was sold without its permission. The United Kalavrvta tanker, carrying some 1 million barrels of crude worth ... Iraq fights to block Kurd oil from entering Texas Iraq Sues to Seize $100 Million of Kurdish Crude in Texas Iraq warns against unloading tanker of Kurdish crude anchored off Galveston |
Reuters UK | A nation in peril - Iraq's struggle to hold together Reuters UK "It's probably the most serious crisis that Iraq has faced since its inception as a country," said Ali Allawi, a minister in two governments after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. "It's the first time that the territorial ... Iraq edges towards collapse into rival statelets Russia delivers combat aircraft to Iraq; experts wonder whether it will help ... Sunni politician seized in Iraq released by gunmen |
Obama Ignoring Christian Genocide In Iraq? Fox News (blog) The terrorist group the Islamic State, an al Qaida off shoot that has taken over large swaths of Iraq in recent months, told Christians in the Iraqi city of Mosul they had to convert to Islam by July 18 or they would be killed, according to the ... |
Fox News | ISIS militants wreak havoc on Iraq's cultural treasures Fox News The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the Sunni Muslim insurgent group who swept across northern and western Iraq earlier this year, menacing Baghdad in the process, has commenced the systematic destruction of the country's cultural treasures. It's Still a Mess in Iraq Jihadists in Iraq Erase Cultural Heritage ISIS militants blow up Prophet Jonas' tomb in Iraq – video |
Yahoo News UK | US Citizen Accused of Bribes Extradited From Iraq ABC News Atilan, 54, was arrested in 2008 in Las Vegas, where he was living at the time, on allegations that he offered bribes and kickbacks to secure contracts for his businesses to do construction work and provide other services in Iraq for U.S. military ... Former contractor extradited from Iraq to face federal charges Fraud suspect extradited from Iraq to Dayton DOD Bribe Suspect Caught in Soup Shop First to Be Extradited From Iraq Under ... |
Reuters India | China says may have citizens fighting in Iraq Reuters India BEIJING (Reuters) - Muslim extremists from China's far western region of Xinjiang have gone to the Middle East for training and some may have crossed into Iraq to participate in the upsurge of violence there, China's special envoy for the Middle East ... China Vows to Maintain Iraq Investments as Violence Continues Chinese citizens fighting in Iraq raises alarm bells |