New York Times | Iran's Participation in Meeting to Aid Iraq Is 'Not Appropriate,' Says Kerry New York Times ANKARA, Turkey — Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that “it would not be appropriate” for Iran to attend an international conference on the security crisis in Iraq that is to be held in Paris next week because of what he called the role ... US will be ramping up airstrikes soon _ in Iraq Cobbling Coalition for Iraq, Syria No Easy Task US plan to fight Islamic State depends on new Iraq leadership, Kerry says ... |
The Economist | Barack Obama and Islamic State The Economist BARACK OBAMA's prime-time address of September 10th, bracing America for an open-ended campaign against Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, marked a stunning turnaround for a cautious president, a once-again-hawkish Republican Party and—most ... Obama Sees Iraq Resolution as a Legal Basis for Airstrikes, Official Says Petraeus: Don't Overestimate ISIS in Iraq Obama Came To Office To End Iraq War, May Leave Having Started A New One |
Wall Street Journal | Iraq premier says France to join airstrikes effort U.S. News & World Report French President Francois Hollande, left, shakes hands with his Iraqi counterpart President Fouad Massoum during their joint news conference in Baghdad on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Hollande expressed his solidarity with Iraq on a visit to Baghdad on ... French President in Iraq to Rally Support for Western Air Strike Efforts |
The Economist (blog) | Vietnam v Iraq The Economist (blog) Iraq needs further intervention, argues Mr Packer, because "unlike Vietnam, ISIS is an irreconcilable enemy and a metastasising threat." This contrast seems to benefit from a bit of hindsight. In 1975 there was no way to know whether Communist Vietnam ... |
What US airstrikes look like in Iraq, mapped by region Washington Post As the United States' air war in Iraq moves into its second month, there are a lot of ways to crunch the data that has been released. One is to track what has been hit. Another, depicted above, is to pay attention to where the bombs and missiles have ... |
Reuters | Refereeing the John McCain-Jay Carney spat over Iraq Washington Post (blog) Earlier this year, The Fact Checker took a deep dive into the issues surrounding the politics of leaving a residual force in Iraq—and the facts are certainly complicated. In fact, the issue is so complex that both sides can essentially pick and choose ... Fireworks: McCain vs. Carney on Iraq: "It's Not A Matter Of Disagreement; It's ... McCain: Obama never said he wanted to leave troops in Iraq |
ABC News (blog) | What 475 New US Troops Headed to Iraq Won't Do ABC News (blog) The 475 additional U.S. military personnel headed to Iraq this week will assist Iraqi security forces as they take the offensive against ISIS fighters. They will be posted at Iraqi military headquarters to help coordinate military planning but will not ... Over 2700 Iraq air missions preceded Obama's anti-ISIS campaign expansion What Will American Troops Do in Iraq? |
China: Fighters Back From Iraq, Syria Are Threat ABC News All member states of the organization known as SCO, which also includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, have citizens who have joined radical groups in Iraq and Syria, Zhang said, reflecting similar concerns in Europe and the ... |
The President's Speech About Iraq: The Hidden Message Forbes Hence the recurrent mantra of letting local allies do the work and not dragging the US into another Iraq war. To this rather unheroic prescription he needed to attach a heroic sense of mission, the kind that the American public likes to hear. In ... |
Countering Islamic State will be hard in Iraq and harder in Syria, officials say Washington Post President Obama's strategy to beat back Islamic State militants spread across Iraq and Syria will depend on far more than U.S. bombs and missiles hitting their intended targets. In Iraq, dissolved elements of the army will have to regroup and fight ... |