Newsweek | ISIS burned up to 40 people alive, official in Iraq says CNN ISIS burned up to 40 people alive, official in Iraq says. By CNN Staff. Updated 7:01 PM ET, Thu February 19, 2015. Syrian Kurds wait near a border crossing in Suruc as they wait to return to their. <img alt="Syrian Kurds wait near a border crossing in ... US Leads 15 Airstrikes Against ISIS In Iraq and Syria |
NBCNews.com | US Official: American Forces May Help Iraq Retake Mosul NBCNews.com Iraqi military forces backed by U.S. airstrikes and possibly American ground troops could launch an assault to wrest control of the city of Mosul from ISIS as early as April, a senior U.S. official told NBC News on Thursday. As many as 20,000 Iraqi ... Iraq-Kurdish force of 25000 'to retake Mosul from IS' Military official: Mission to retake Iraq's 2nd-largest city set to start in ... CENTCOM: US-Iraq mission to take back Mosul to launch in April or May |
The Economist | A religious minority in Iraq The Economist IN A village called Shalyar, near the oil city of Kirkuk, an officer tries to explain where his tiny community fits in Iraq's religious mosaic. Imam Ali, the martyred hero of Shia Islam, adorns his wall. But Major Farhad Nazar is not Shia; nor, unlike ... |
Foreign Policy (blog) | Iran's Shiite Militias Are Running Amok in Iraq Foreign Policy (blog) The longest continuously serving American official in Iraq, he was special assistant to five American ambassadors in Iraq and senior adviser to three chiefs of U.S. Central Command from 2003 through 2010. He was subsequently an executive with Exxon ... AEI Panel: US Should Do More to Quell Sectarian Divide in Iraq Uneasy alliances as fractured Iraq battles Islamic State Uneasy alliances as fractured Iraq battles IS group |
Daily Mail | Florida man who traveled to Iraq to fight ISIS with battalion of Westerners is ... Daily Mail A Florida man who traveled to Iraq to fight ISIS with a battalion of fellow Westerners last year has been injured in the town of Sinjar. Matthew Kawolski was fighting alongside the Chappies--a unit of Westerners within the Syria-based People's ... |
ThinkProgress | Can Jeb Bush escape his brother's legacy in Iraq? CNN Nearly 25 years after his father launched the first Gulf War and almost 12 years after his brother began a much more contentious sequel, it's Jeb Bush's turn to articulate his vision of America's approach to the Middle East -- and Iraq in particular ... Jeb Bush's 'Big Tent' Welcomes Iraq War Screw-Ups "The Same People Who Lied To You About Iraq Are Now In Charge Of Jeb ... Jeb Bush: 'There Were Mistakes Made In Iraq' During George W. Bush's ... |
CBS News | How ISIS is forging unlikely alliances CBS News KIRKUK, Iraq -- Shiite Arab militias have flooded into northern Iraq's Kirkuk region to help Kurdish forces battle the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but their uneasy alliance threatens to reignite a much older conflict over the oil-rich area ... |
Washington Post (blog) | Kurdish forces repel ISIS offensive in Iraq CNN ... July 5 purports to show ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. " class="media__image" itemprop="image" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/140710123033-iraq-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-watch-story-top.jpg"> ... Iraq's Kurds tell foreign fighters: We don't want your help ISIS Attacks Near Erbil, Iraq, Repelled by Peshmerga: Kurdish Sources Peshmerga 'repel major IS attack in northern Iraq' |
BBC News | RAF jets destroy IS rocket launcher in Iraq BBC News RAF aircraft have destroyed an Islamic State (IS) rocket launcher in the latest of a series of air strikes against the militant group in Iraq. Two GR4 Tornado jets had been offering air support to the Kurdish Peshmerga in northern Iraq when the troops ... |
Reuters | Is the US prepared to confront ISIS beyond Iraq and Syria? CBS News The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is posing a problem well beyond the confines of the two Middle Eastern countries where it has a territorial foothold, raising questions about whether the administration's strategy is sufficient to fight the ... Islamic State could be harvesting organs, Iraq's UN envoy says Islamic State militants 'burn to death 45 in Iraq' Iraq tells United Nations that Islamic State committed genocide |