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Iraq Calls for International War Against Islamic State; Iran Vows Solidarity - Newsweek Sun, 24 Aug 2014 17:49:25 GMT

Newsweek

Iraq Calls for International War Against Islamic State; Iran Vows Solidarity Newsweek BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday during talks with Iran's foreign minister that international efforts would be necessary to destroy Islamic State Sunni militants who have seized swathes of his country ... Iraq urges global action against Islamic State, Iran vows solidarityReuters Iraq forces defeat militant push to take oil refineryBBC News Iran Says Iraq Able to Fight Militants AloneABC News Yahoo News -Aljazeera.com -ABC Online all 155 news articles »

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Events in Iraq, Syria and Russia further stoke debate about Obama's worldview - Washington Post Mon, 25 Aug 2014 01:32:50 GMT

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Events in Iraq, Syria and Russia further stoke debate about Obama's worldview Washington Post The week began with the breaking of the siege of Mount Sinjar in Iraq, thanks to U.S. bombing runs, and ended with the public beheading of American journalist James Foley in Syria and renewed Russian aggression in Ukraine. The juxtaposition of military ... Will: General Dempsey foreshadowing 'third Iraq war'?Fox News We're One Step Closer to Boots on the Ground in IraqThe Fiscal Times White House resists Pentagon's advice on IraqFinancial Times The Denver Post -New York Magazine all 426 news articles »

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Iraq: on the frontline with the Shia fighters taking the war to Isis - The Guardian Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:24:53 GMT

The Guardian

Iraq: on the frontline with the Shia fighters taking the war to Isis The Guardian Mujtaba is a good example of the new breed of Shia fighter, hellbent on confronting what they see as an existential threat against them, battle-hardened by more than a decade of conflict in Iraq and Syria and, in some cases, trained in Iran and Lebanon ... Response to Attack Reflects Iraq's Sectarian DivideNew York Times Post-Maliki Iraq: Can Haider al-Abadi deliver?Today's Zaman Bombings Kill 42 in Iraq After Sunni Mosque AttackABC News Reuters all 1,114 news articles »

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ISIS Lays Siege to Iraqi Turkmen Village - TIME Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:19:04 GMT

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ISIS Lays Siege to Iraqi Turkmen Village TIME In June, when fighters from Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) attacked the village of Amirli, Iraq, 45-year-old teacher Qasim Jawad Hussein was one of hundreds of villagers who rushed to pick up their weapons to fight alongside police and ... Shias in Iraq town under ISIS siege face risk of 'massacre,' UN saysFox News Iraq conflict: UN warns of possible Amerli 'massacre'BBC News UN: 'Unspeakable' suffering in Iraq town besieged by ISIS fightersKSAT San Antonio NPR (blog) -Irish Independent all 161 news articles »

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Could US strikes on Iraq spur Jordan's homegrown ISIS? - Al-Arabiya Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:41:26 GMT

Could US strikes on Iraq spur Jordan's homegrown ISIS? Al-Arabiya In anticipation of a prolonged Syrian crisis and the accompanying upsurge of radical groups, Jordan has adopted a set of measures to counter any security spillover from the northern and eastern terrorism-fertile Syria and Iraq. In addition to the ... and more »

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Deadly Iraq bombings may be retaliation for massacre at a Sunni mosque - Los Angeles Times Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:34:14 GMT

Deadly Iraq bombings may be retaliation for massacre at a Sunni mosque Los Angeles Times Kurdish Iraqi soldiers known as peshmerga have been leading the fight against Islamic State, the Sunni extremist group that has taken over large swaths of northern and western Iraq. Backed by U.S. airstrikes, Kurdish forces dislodged the militants from ...

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Kurdish Female Warriors On The Front Lines Fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria - Breitbart News (blog) Sun, 24 Aug 2014 17:24:00 GMT

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Kurdish Female Warriors On The Front Lines Fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria Breitbart News (blog) You could call them the Kurdish Peshmerga's First Cavalry Amazon Battalion. Via PBS News, the all female unit's commander, Col. Nahida Ahmed Rashid, said "more women are enlisting today to defend Iraq's Kurdish region from Islamic State extremists.". Iran 'sent soldiers to fight in Iraq'Aljazeera.com Deadly violence as forces struggle to contain ISISCBS News Iraq, Syria and the Islamic State A war that crosses national boundariesThe Economist CNN -USA TODAY all 449 news articles »

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Iraq's Chaldeans Still Exist—for Now - Wall Street Journal Sun, 24 Aug 2014 22:39:56 GMT

Wall Street Journal

Iraq's Chaldeans Still Exist—for Now Wall Street Journal Or as my more scripted response became: "We are ethnic Assyrians from northern Iraq who belong to the Chaldean Rite of the Catholic Church." I would explain how Chaldeans are members of the Eastern Catholic Church, while Assyrians are members of ... and more »

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Obama wanted to keep 10000 troops in Iraq, ABC's Raddatz claims - PolitiFact Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:52:20 GMT

Obama wanted to keep 10000 troops in Iraq, ABC's Raddatz claims PolitiFact Obama, who won office in 2008 partly for his pledge to end the war in Iraq, announced his own draw-down plans a month after taking office. "Let me say this as plainly as I can: by Aug. 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end," he said Feb. 27, 2009. and more »

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Iraq's north rocked by deadly blasts - Aljazeera.com Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:52:16 GMT

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Iraq's north rocked by deadly blasts Aljazeera.com While much of Iraq has been plagued by near-daily violence, Kurdistan's capital has avoided much of the deadly unrest. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from Erbil, said the explosion went off on a road near the office of the Patriotic Union of ... In Kurdish Irbil, first car bomb raises fears of onslaught by Islamic State ...McClatchy Washington Bureau all 78 news articles »