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I'm a refugee from Iraq, and I'm tired of being a pawn in a political debate - Vox Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:10:24 GMT

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I'm a refugee from Iraq, and I'm tired of being a pawn in a political debate
Vox
The first time I came to America, I was a student, filled with excitement about living in a place I knew through my favorite television shows. The second time, I was a refugee, fleeing my home country of Iraq after the rise of ISIS. These two ...


The Unlikely Home of the World's Next Tallest Skyscraper - CityLab Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:52:12 GMT

CityLab

The Unlikely Home of the World's Next Tallest Skyscraper
CityLab
And the Bride isn't destined for the UAE or Saudi Arabia. The world title-holder will be built in Basra, Iraq. That might seem like a shock, too, since Basra was the site of the first major battle in 2003 during the Iraq War, and given that Iraq's ...
Iraq is planning a solar powered skyscraper that's 1000 feet taller than the ...Digital Trends
Iraq reveals plans to build world's tallest towerConstruction Week Online
World's tallest building and 'first vertical city' planned for IraqConstruction Dive

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ISIS used tunnels to hide under besieged Iraq city - CBS News Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:01:00 GMT

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ISIS used tunnels to hide under besieged Iraq city
CBS News
IRBIL, Iraq -- Under the Iraqi town of Sinjar, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants built a network of tunnels, complete with sleeping quarters, wired with electricity and fortified with sandbags. There, they had boxes of U.S.-made ...
Inside Islamic State's underground lairNEWS.com.au
Secret underground ISIS tunnels discovered in Iraq by Kurdish troops during raidMirror.co.uk
ISIS secret tunnels found in liberated Yezidi region north IraqARA News
Al-Arabiya -The Inquisitr -USA TODAY
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The view from Iraq - American Enterprise Institute Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:51:31 GMT

American Enterprise Institute

The view from Iraq
American Enterprise Institute
Over at Commentary, I blogged in detail about different aspects of the view from Iraq, including Iranian influence, the economic challenge Iraqis face, increasing Iraqi frustration with US generals more anxious to be talking heads than military ...


Iran says US has plan to divide Iraq, pleads with Iraqis to resist - Reuters Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:40:15 GMT

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Iran says US has plan to divide Iraq, pleads with Iraqis to resist
Reuters
In August, outgoing U.S. Army chief of staff General Ray Odierno drew condemnation from Baghdad and Tehran when he said reconciliation between Shi'ites and Sunnis in Iraq was becoming harder and that partitioning the country "might be the only solution.
Iran's Leader calls for efforts to confront plots to partition IraqPress TV

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I admit it – Iraq was a mistake. But that shouldn't stop us intervening in Syria - Telegraph.co.uk Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:56:28 GMT

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I admit it – Iraq was a mistake. But that shouldn't stop us intervening in Syria
Telegraph.co.uk
Back in London, Sir John Chilcot is laboriously assembling a very different monument – the long overdue report on the handling of the Iraq war. There are other monuments to lives lost in Iraq, but this one will contain a small pile of ruined ...

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Military Strikes Hit ISIL Terrorists in Syria, Iraq - Department of Defense Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:04:26 GMT

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Military Strikes Hit ISIL Terrorists in Syria, Iraq
Department of Defense
SOUTHWEST ASIA, November 25, 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 ...
Iraq: Turning The TideAINA (press release)
Military strikes continue against ISIL terrorists in Syria and IraqDVIDS (press release)
US-Led Coalition Against ISIL Conducts 23 Airstrikes in Iraq, SyriaSputnik International

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Iraq says ISIS on defensive in Ramadi, blowing up homes - Rudaw Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:10:02 GMT

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Iraq says ISIS on defensive in Ramadi, blowing up homes
Rudaw
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Islamic State group (ISIS) is on its last breath in the city of Ramadi, where it is blowing up homes to punish young men who have fled and joined the Iraqi Army, an Iraqi officer and the government said. "In retaliation for the (men ...
Iraq forces gain more grounds against Daesh in RamadiPress TV

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"UK should consider ground forces in Syria, Iraq" - Press TV Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:21:55 GMT

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"UK should consider ground forces in Syria, Iraq"
Press TV
The UK's former Foreign Secretary William Hague says London should not rule out having some of its own forces on the ground in Syria and Iraq. In an article published in the Telegraph, Hague wrote that the destruction of ISIL militants also known as ...
Hague admits Iraq War 'wrong' but calls for British ground troops to smash ...Express.co.uk
UK Former Foreign Sec Admits Iraq 'Mistake', Calls for Syrian Intervention‏Sputnik International
Iraq “mistake” shouldn't stop us to intervene in Syria, says HagueDaily Times
The Japan Times -ABC Online -Xinhuanet Search
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How the US campaign in Iraq has escalated with a new weapon: rocket artillery - Washington Post Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:29:10 GMT

Washington Post

How the US campaign in Iraq has escalated with a new weapon: rocket artillery
Washington Post
Last week, close watchers of the many-sided war in Iraq and Syria learned from an apparently inadvertent Russian state television disclosure that Russia has upped the ante in its eight-week-old war in Syria, apparently adding ground-based artillery to ...