Daily Beast | Putin ?Seducing? Iraq?s Tribes Daily Beast Iraq, though, is different. A country invaded and occupied for nearly a decade by the U.S., which also armed and trained its army and police, still has to maintain at least the appearance of loyalty to Washington. Iraqi government spokesman Sa'ad al ... Ramadi's Dirty Little Secret in the War Against ISIS ISIS proves resilient as US downplays attacks in Iraq |
Huffington Post | Miss Iraq Pageant Winner Crowned For First Time In More Than 40 Years Huffington Post For the first time in more than 40 years, Iraq has crowned a Miss Iraq beauty pageant winner. Shaima Qassim, a 20-year-old economics student from Kirkuk, clinched the shimmering gold-and-crystal crown Saturday after outshining more than 150 candidates ... Iraq chooses 1st beauty queen since 1972 'People think we don't love life': Iraq holds first beauty pageant since 1972 Miss Iraq beauty pageant held for the first time since 1972 |
New York Post | US calls deadly Iraq friendly fire airstrike 'regrettable' New York Post Carter, who spent two days in Iraq this past week, called Abadi from the USS Kearsarge, an amphibious assault ship supporting coalition missions in Iraq and Syria against Islamic State militants. The Kearsarge carries a Marine expeditionary unit and ... Iraq Blames US Friendly Fire for Killing 9 Troops Iraq military asks residents of ISIS-controlled Ramadi to leave city Mourning for Iraq's coalition air strike victims |
The Guardian | Turkey to move troops from Iraq CNN But Iraq's government has insisted that it never invited the Turkish forces and that their presence constituted a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. Iraqi President Fuad Masum said Turkey violated international laws when its military entered the country ... Turkish troops move out of northern Iraq after Obama appeal for calm Turkey to Continue Withdrawal of Troops From Northern Iraq Under US Pressure, Turkey Agrees to Pull Troops From Iraq |
Toronto Star | Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan in Iraq in unannounced visit Toronto Star BAGHDAD, IRAQ—Canada's defence minister is visiting Iraq, just days after Canadian military forces helped push back a major Islamic State offensive. Kurdish media are reporting that Harjit Sajjan spent Sunday in the town of Irbil in a visit that was ... Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan visits Iraq Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan arrives in Iraq, meets with security officials Defence minister makes surprise visit to Iraq, meets with security officials |
Dividing Iraq into three regions may be best path to peace TBO.com All this is serving to reinforce the reality that the Iraq and Syria as designed a century ago by the Sykes-Picot agreement that carved up the teetering Ottoman Empire that finally evaporated after World War I is gone. The Iraqi Kurds, who have been ... |
Express.co.uk | Is ISIS about to lose land in Iraq? 'Major military operation' set to ... Express.co.uk THE DEPRAVED Islamic State (ISIS) terror group could be set to lose their grip of Iraq after a major military operation was announced to overthrow the jihadis. By Levi Winchester Levi Winchester. PUBLISHED: 21:14, Sun, Dec 20, 2015 | UPDATED: 22:34, ... |
Your Middle East | Iraq gets first beauty queen since 1972: "This put a smile on the faces of the ... Your Middle East The jury chose Shaymaa Abdelrahman, a tall, green-eyed 20-year-old from Iraq's multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk. The decision was popular with those in attendance, especially in the back rows, where young men with hipster beards and tight blazers had been ... |
Center for Research on Globalization | Washington Plans to Disintegrate Iraq, Syria into Eight New Smaller Countries ... Center for Research on Globalization “The US is after implementing its plot to create a Greater Middle-East whose aim is disintegrating Iraq into three countries and dividing Syria into five states in a bid to downsize countries to provide security to the Zionist regime,” Velayati said on ... |
Daily Mail | Just leave me be: Soldier's plea as lawyers force Iraq veterans to relive ... Daily Mail Servicemen cleared of any wrongdoing in the Iraq War have been forced to relive the horrors of combat years later as a result of a surge in legal claims. In one case, six soldiers – two of them suffering from post-traumatic stress – were ordered to ... |