Telegraph.co.uk | Church patriarch in Iraq blames US for Christians' misery Washington Post (blog) The most senior Christian cleric in Iraq said the United States was "indirectly responsible" for the current chaos in Iraq, where the advances of Islamic State jihadists over the past few months have led to thousands of deaths and raised charges of ... Prince of Wales 'heartbroken' for Christians in Iraq Prince Charles condemns 'diabolic evil' of Iraq persecution Prince's sorrow at Iraq persecution |
Forbes | Former US Iraq Chief: The Time To Destroy ISIS Is Now Forbes After the first Gulf War in 1991, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Jay Garner was charged with securing Iraq's Kurdish region. He forged friendships with such Kurdish leaders as Jalal Talabani and Masood Barzani. Those friends proved valuable when Garner in 2003 was ... Is Iraq breaking up? Are US Troops Already Fighting in Iraq? Iraq's Kurds reach a fork in the road |
BBC News | Iraq air strikes 'kill senior Islamic State members' BBC News A senior Islamic State military commander in Iraq has been killed in an air strike on the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi state media report. Iraq's defence ministry also said a top aide to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed in a strike on ... Iraq crisis: British lawyers prepare international war crimes case against ... New Iraq war Aide to ISIS Leader Among 3 Killed in US Strike: Iraqi Official |
Mother Jones | Two Iraq War Supporters Urge Caution Amid ISIS Media Frenzy Huffington Post NEW YORK -– As the Obama administration weighs whether it should try to manage the Islamic State, destroy it or follow it to the “gates of Hell,” endless news coverage and non-stop cable chatter have focused on the possibility of expanding the fight ... US Invades Iraq…Again and Secretly ISIS Is America's Legacy in Iraq The Islamic State is forcing the West out of its Iraq war trauma |
The Guardian | Britain to arm Kurds fighting Isis in northern Iraq The Guardian There were reports that the Iraq parliament may meet in emergency session as early as Thursday evening to vote on the Abadi government, and if this occurred and agreement was reached, one of the preconditions for wider military help to Baghdad would be ... Army may return to Iraq as David Cameron wins backing for air strikes David Cameron makes the case for air strikes on Isis in Syria and Iraq and ... UK 'Preparing to Join US Air Strikes in Iraq' |
CBS News | ISIS-affiliated militants kidnap dozens in Iraq CBS News BAGHDAD -- Militants affiliated with the extremist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, abducted dozens of men from a Sunni village north of Baghdad Thursday, residents said, as two separate car bombings killed 23 people in the ... Sunni Militants Kidnap Dozens of Men in Iraq UN to send investigators to Iraq over Islamic State 'atrocities' Islamic State kidnaps 40 men in Iraq's Kirkuk region - residents |
Al-Arabiya | HRW: more ISIS execution sites found in Iraq Al-Arabiya New evidence unveiled three more mass execution sites, bringing the total number of those killed to at least 770 people mainly captured Iraqi army soldiers by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria when it seized Tikrit city, a leading international ... ISIL massacres about 800 captured troops in Iraq: HRW |
The cost of going back to Iraq CNNMoney The cost of current U.S. military operations in Iraq may be on the rise. But the tab is low compared to the Iraq war that ran from March 2003 through December 2011. On Tuesday, President Obama authorized additional troops to be deployed to Iraq to ... |
TIME | Iraq crisis prompts Obama, Cameron to revisit US-Britain ties Los Angeles Times President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron began Thursday by making a joint call to action in a newspaper piece against “barbaric” terrorists in Iraq. They also visited an elementary school in the morning before attending the NATO summit, ... NATO Chief: Alliance Would Consider Intervention in Iraq NATO would consider any Iraq request for IS help Canada to send military advisers to counter ISIS in Iraq |
Sydney Morning Herald | What would success in Iraq look like? Sydney Morning Herald If we're going to get involved once more in a military campaign in Iraq, there is a question we simply must answer: what exactly will success look like? It's perhaps the single most catastrophically ignored question of the post-9/11 era. It's the ... |