Al-Arabiya | Australian Premier Makes Unannounced Trip to Iraq ABC News Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott made an unannounced visit Sunday to Baghdad, meeting with top officials to discuss ways his country can aid Iraqi forces in their fight against the Islamic State group. Abbott and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al ... Iraq asks Australian PM for more military aid PM Tony Abbott arrives in Iraq for talks Australia stands by Iraq against Islamic State, Tony Abbott says |
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Special Forces Calling In Airstrikes In Iraq Daily Caller (Editor's Note to Video Exclusive: War Reporter Alex Quade embedded with Special Forces Operational Detachment Teams in Diyala Province, Iraq, as they called in airstrikes with A10s and F16s in 2007 and 2008, and advised as many as 1400 Iraqis on ... |
The Guardian | Asio: Isis still a threat despite coalition successes in Syria and Iraq The Guardian “Since January 2014, Isil has focused on capturing and consolidating control over large areas of Iraq and Syria. It operates across much of Iraq and Syria, but is based in the Iraqi provinces of Ninewa and al-Anbar and the Syrian province of al-Raqqa ... IS kidnaps dozens of men in northern Iraq US allies conduct air strikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State US, partners continue airstrikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State |
RT | US advisers in Iraq stay out of combat but see fighting edging closer Washington Post In Iraq's western Anbar province, more than 300 U.S. troops are posted at a base in the thick of a pitched battle between Iraqi forces, backed by tribal fighters, and well-armed Islamic State militants. The militants, positioned at a nearby town, have ... Will US advisors in Iraq become combat troops in 2015? Civilian death toll in Iraq doubles to 17000 in 2014 'due to rise of ISIS' Report says Iraqi civilian deaths roughly doubled last year, driven by ISIS |
Several killed in Iraq clashes Aljazeera.com Fierce fighting took place on Sunday in the Sayed Ghareeb area in Al-Dujail district south of Salah El-din province in Iraq. One policeman and three others were also killed from Sahwa (Awakening Movement) and five others were injured in ISIL shelling ... |
Aljazeera.com | Deadliest year in Iraq since 2007 Aljazeera.com Violence in Iraq killed more than 15,000 civilians and security personnel in 2014, government figures have shown, making it one of the deadliest years since the 2003 US-led invasion. Figures compiled by the health, interior and defence ministries and ... 2014 Was Deadliest Year For Iraq in Years: UN Iraq death toll doubles to 15538 in 2014, the worst in seven years, says ... Iraq violence killed more than 12000 civilians in 2014, the UN says |
Business Insider | Iraq Hasn't Exported This Much Oil Since 1980 Business Insider Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq's oil exports reached their highest level in decades in December, the oil ministry's spokesman said on Saturday, but vital revenues were being hit by the plummeting prices of crude. Iraq exported 91.141 million barrels of oil in ... Iraq oil exports highest since 1980 but low prices hit revenue |
CNN International | Iran will do what it takes to fight ISIS CNN International Mohamad Bazzi is a journalism professor at New York University and former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday, where he was the lead writer on the 2003 Iraq war and its aftermath. A former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, he is writing a ... |
Civilian Deaths in Iraq Spiked Sharply in 2014 TIME The public database project Iraq Body Count recorded 17,049 civilian deaths in Iraq in 2014, approximately double its tally in 2013 (9,743), which itself had doubled from the year prior (there were 4,622 civilian deaths in 2012). IBC, which has been ... |
Haaretz | Brit Hostage Tours Iraq City In New IS Video Sky News Brit Hostage Tours Iraq City In New IS Video. The Foreign Office says it is "studying" a video in which John Cantlie appears to visit a market, a hospital and a police station. 09:47, UK, Sunday 04 January 2015. British hostage John Cantlie on tour of ... Middle East Updates / US, allies conduct air strikes in Syria, Iraq against ISIS John Cantlie Narrates Latest ISIS Propaganda Video From Mosul |