International Business Times | Iraqi Yazidi lawmaker: 'Hundreds of my people are being slaughtered' CNN Lawmaker Vian Dakhil, the only MP representing the Yazidi minority group in Iraq's Parliament, said in an impassioned speech that 70 Yazidi children had died so far, that women were being killed or sold into slavery and that 500 men had been "slaughtered. Kurdistan Isn't About to Leave Iraq Amid ISIS Fighting Who Are The Yazidi? Iraq's Obscure Religious Minority Is Another ISIS Target The Extremist Threat to Iraq Grows |
Be Captured and Killed, or Risk Dying of Thirst: The Awful Choice Facing the ... TIME Thousands flee Iraq's Sinjar Thousands of Iraqis flee from the town of Sinjar, near the city of Mosul, to Erbil and Dohuk after armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State seized the town early on August 4, 2014. Anadolu Agency—Getty Images ... |
Wall Street Journal | Iraq Backs Kurdish Fight Against Jihadists Wall Street Journal BAGHDAD—Iraq's government sent its air force on Monday to back Kurdish forces struggling to blunt a jihadist advance, an extraordinary move that reflects alarm over the insurgents' brash new offensive against Kurds in both Iraq and Syria. Prime ... |
Press TV | Militant Slaughter Sparks Mass Exodus in Northern Iraq Mountains Bloomberg While most escaped to Kurdish-controlled areas, about 50,000 people, half of them children, “got stranded in the mountains,” Unicef spokeswoman Juliette Touma said by phone from Iraq yesterday. “Their situation is the direst because we cannot provide ... Iraq day of violence claims over 50 lives ISIL continues siege on Iraq's Christians Iraq air force backs Kurds against ISIL |
New York Times | Sunni Extremists Repel Kurdish Forces in Iraq New York Times BARTELLA, Iraq — Sunni extremists repelled efforts by Kurdish pesh merga forces on Wednesday to push them back in areas east of Mosul in northern Iraq and shelled a predominantly Christian village there in what appeared to be a renewed push along the ... ISIS Rebels Target 2nd Iraq Dam Iraq's Largest Dam Could Collapse as Extremists Advance |
Westerners Are Flocking to Iraq's Top Terror Group—and There Seems to Be ... Mother Jones Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's Islamic State, the Sunni extremist group that has seized control of a swath of territory in Syria and northern Iraq, has enlisted thousands of fundamentalist volunteers from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Australia, the United ... |
Fox News | Islamic State militants fight for Iraq's two biggest dams Fox News Militants from the Islamic State are battling ferociously to control one of Iraq's most vital resources: water. Fighters with the group launched a three-pronged attack over the weekend in a drive to capture Haditha Dam, in western Iraq, a complex with ... |
Wolfowitz: We 'won' the Iraq War The Hill The U.S. planned to leave some troops in Iraq to train and advise Iraqi forces after the combat mission ended in 2011, but those forces withdrew after the Obama administration and the Iraqi government were not able to sign a bilateral security ... |
Wall Street Journal | US Backs Sunni Plan to Fight Islamic State Jihadists in Iraq Wall Street Journal BAGHDAD—The U.S. is holding talks with Sunni Muslim officials in Iraq who have requested help in organizing grass-roots fighting forces to counter an extremist militant group seizing territory across the country. The meetings follow an outreach by ... Insight - Iran's elite Guards fighting in Iraq to push back Islamic State Maliki warns against interference in forming of new Iraq government Iran seeks alternative to Maliki to hold Iraq together |
Voice of America | Car Bombs Kill 51 in Baghdad Shiite Neighborhoods ABC News The number of corpses found with gunshot wounds has been on rise recently in a grim reminder of the sectarian killing that engulfed Iraq in 2006 and 2007. Then, both Shiite and Sunni death squads roamed the streets and raided homes to round up people. Iraq TV: Airstrike kills 60 suspected militants Iraq: Car Bombs Kill 27 in Baghdad Bombings kill 32 in Iraq's capital |