VICE News | US and Syrian Airstrikes Hit Islamic State Targets in Iraq and Syria VICE News At least 25 people are dead after Syrian forces launched a series of air attacks on an Islamic State-run bakery and other militant targets in the northeastern city of Raqqa on Saturday. At least three children and eight members of a single family were ... The Islamic State is forcing the West out of its Iraq war trauma West's MPs divided over action in Iraq British Premier Offers to Expand Assistance to Kurdish Forces in Iraq |
Aljazeera.com | Saudi unveils 900km fence on Iraq border Aljazeera.com Saudi Arabia has unveiled a 900km multi-layered fence along its border with Iraq, as part of efforts to secure the kingdom's vast desert frontiers against infiltrators and smugglers, state media SPA has said. King Abdullah announced the launch of the ... Security tightens in Saudi border with Iraq Saudi Arabia building high-tech fence to secure border with Iraq Iranian-Saudi agreement on Iraq may be near |
Reuters | In Iraq, fight against Islamic State has produced some unlikely facts on the ... Washington Post The urgent fight to keep Islamic State forces from taking over more of Iraq has led the Obama administration to tolerate, and in some cases even approve, things it once would have loudly protested. When Iraqi Shiite militias, backed by Iran and long ... Obama, Hill leaders to meet on Iraq Obama sets meeting with US Congress leaders amid concern over Iraq crisis Think before pushing for return to Iraq |
Wall Street Journal | Iraq Files New Complaint Against Kurdish Oil Exports Wall Street Journal Iraq's oil ministry refiled a complaint in a U.S. court asking American authorities to seize a cargo of Kurdish oil waiting off the coast of Texas, the latest maneuver by Baghdad to stanch slowly growing volumes of Kurdish crude exports. The new ... Iraq Pursues New Tack in Bid to Seize Tanker Off Texas Iraq refiles case in US court over disputed Kurdish crude US Retirees Making Iraq Safe For Big Oil |
BBC News | Unsavoury allies The growing power of Shia militias in Iraq and Syria poses a ... The Economist THERE was never any doubting the brutality of Islamic State (IS), the jihadist group that has swept across large parts of Syria and Iraq and declared an Islamic caliphate. Its war has been accompanied by a stream of gory video recordings of mass ... Iraq air strikes 'kill senior Islamic State members' |
CBS News | Iraq Attacks Kill 17 as Mass Grave Found ABC News A series of attacks across Iraq on Friday killed 17 people, including four Shiite militiamen and a Sunni tribal chief, while a mass grave in the north was found to contain the bodies of 15 Shiite truck drivers killed by Sunni militants. Police ... ISIS-affiliated militants kidnap dozens in Iraq UN to send investigators to Iraq over Islamic State 'atrocities' Iraq crisis: Acts of inhumanity on unimaginable scale - UN |
Toronto Sun | ISIS in Iraq: Canada to send special ops soldiers as advisers CBC.ca Canada's next contribution to the fight against ISIS in Iraq will be "several dozen" members of the Armed Forces, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today — and CBC News has learned that includes special operations forces. The contingent of ... Canada sending military advisers to help Iraq battle ISIS threat Canada sending dozens of military advisors to Iraq to help counter ISIS's ... Canada to send military advisers to Iraq |
Reuters | US Forming 'Core Coalition' To Battle Islamic State Militants In Iraq Huffington Post While the official agenda will focus on the crisis in Ukraine and the drawdown of the NATO combat mission in Afghanistan, the rise of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria will dominate discussions on the sidelines of the summit. (AP Photo/Jon ... US says forms 'core coalition' to counter Iraq militants US conducts two more strikes targeting ISIS in Iraq Have You Watched This Airstrike in Iraq? |
BBC News | Iraq crisis: Kurds retake strategic mountain from IS BBC News Kurdish forces in northern Iraq have recaptured a strategically important mountain from Islamic State (IS) militants, helped by US air strikes. Mount Zartak overlooks a plain that stretches to Mosul, the city seized by IS in June. The mountain fell to ... Kurdish forces renew fight against ISIS in Iraq Britain to arm Kurds fighting Isis in northern Iraq US Troops Reported Fighting in Iraq |
The Independent | The new threat to global security NEWS.com.au But then came the invasion of Iraq and several beheadings and world leaders including Australia's Tony Abbott are suddenly seeing not only their own citizens joining the group for an offshore fight but threatening to bring their barbaric rhetoric and ... Two Iraq War Supporters Urge Caution Amid ISIS Media Frenzy US Invades Iraq…Again and Secretly Iraq: a Problem of Mixed Messages |