TIME | Iraq Vet: We Created ISIS—Now We Need a Plan to Defeat It TIME Armchair generals, presidential candidates, military generals and our foreign policy officials are out in force in the wake of the Paris attacks offering angry responses. It's difficult to watch the cacophony. I learned too much while fighting in Iraq ... |
Washington Post | In quiet ceremony, Delta Force soldier killed in Iraq buried at Arlington Washington Post Wheeler suffered a gunshot wound during a firefight between militants, Kurdish forces and Delta Force operators as the Americans and Kurds stormed a prison run by the Islamic State in Hawijah, Iraq, U.S. officials said previously. He died in the ... |
New York Post | US just behind Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq in ISIS supporters on Twitter New York Post Startling data was released Wednesday morning showing Twitter support for ISIS is running high in the US, according to a Brookings Institute survey. The US is ranked fourth in favorable tweets supporting ISIS, behind Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iraq. The ... |
Albany Times Union | IS endures airstrikes slamming Syria, Iraq Albany Times Union FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2015 file photo, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, Jr. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In measuring progress in the American-led air war against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, numbers tell one story, but ... Despite heavy US airstrikes, campaign against IS in Syria and Iraq IS achieves ... To defeat IS, we must learn from failure in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya |
Ottawa Citizen | Scope of Canada's military training mission in Iraq could expand The Globe and Mail Canada's Defence Minister is raising the prospect of an expanded military training mission in Iraq that could go beyond aiding the Kurds to include Iraq's government soldiers, a move that would keep Canada in the fight against Islamic State by taking ... Defence minister looks at all options for Iraq mission but government won't be ... Regular troops part of new Iraq mission? |
War on the Rocks | Military Strikes Continue Against ISIL Terrorists in Syria, Iraq Department of Defense SOUTHWEST ASIA, November 18, 2015 — U.S. and coalition military forces have continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today. Officials ... What Paris Taught Us About the Islamic State Military strikes continue against ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq US-Led Coalition Launches 29 Airstrikes on ISIL in Syria, Iraq |
The Federalist | The Obama Administration Stopped Processing Iraq Refugee Requests For 6 Months ... The Federalist Although the Obama administration currently refuses to temporarily pause its Syrian refugee resettlement program in the United States, the State Department in 2011 stopped processing Iraq refugee requests for six months after the Federal Bureau of ... |
Reuters | Presidential candidate Bush wants increased US presence on ground in Iraq Reuters Bush's decision, which will inevitably lead to comparisons with the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq ordered by his brother, then-President George W. Bush, was reached after the attacks in Paris, where 129 people were killed by gunfire and bombs ... Republican Candidate Jeb Bush Calls For More US Troops in Iraq Presidential Candidate Jeb Bush Wants Increased US Presence on Ground in Iraq |
Security experts argue for increased military action in Iraq, Syria Military Times A pair of former presidential national security advisers on Wednesday pushed lawmakers to increase airstrikes in Iraq and Syria with possible boosts in U.S. ground forces in the fight against the Islamic State group. But they also argued that moves to ... |
CTV News | Taking next steps in Iraq, Syria HeraldNet Pressed about his strategy for fighting the Islamic State, a petulant-sounding President Barack Obama insisted Monday, as he has before, that his critics have offered no concrete alternatives for action in Syria and Iraq, other than putting “large ... Canadian jets strike three Islamic State fighting positions in Iraq Iraq Vet: What Real War With ISIS Would Mean Why Paris? The answer can be found in Syria and Iraq |