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ISIS burned up to 40 people alive, official in Iraq says - CNN Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:03:07 GMT

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ISIS burned up to 40 people alive, official in Iraq says
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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 SyriaNewsweek

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US Official: American Forces May Help Iraq Retake Mosul - NBCNews.com Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:20:32 GMT

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US Official: American Forces May Help Iraq Retake Mosul
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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'BBC News
Military official: Mission to retake Iraq's 2nd-largest city set to start in ...Dallas Morning News
CENTCOM: US-Iraq mission to take back Mosul to launch in April or MayStars and Stripes
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A religious minority in Iraq - The Economist Wed, 18 Feb 2015 06:13:21 GMT

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A religious minority in Iraq
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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 ...


Iran's Shiite Militias Are Running Amok in Iraq - Foreign Policy (blog) Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:15:16 GMT

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Iran's Shiite Militias Are Running Amok in Iraq
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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 IraqUSNI News
Uneasy alliances as fractured Iraq battles Islamic StateStars and Stripes
Uneasy alliances as fractured Iraq battles IS groupBradford Era
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Florida man who traveled to Iraq to fight ISIS with battalion of Westerners is ... - Daily Mail Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:36:19 GMT

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Florida man who traveled to Iraq to fight ISIS with battalion of Westerners is ...
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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 ...

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Can Jeb Bush escape his brother's legacy in Iraq? - CNN Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:49:02 GMT

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Can Jeb Bush escape his brother's legacy in Iraq?
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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-UpsHuffington Post
"The Same People Who Lied To You About Iraq Are Now In Charge Of Jeb ...ThinkProgress
Jeb Bush: 'There Were Mistakes Made In Iraq' During George W. Bush's ...CBS Local
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How ISIS is forging unlikely alliances - CBS News Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:07:22 GMT

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How ISIS is forging unlikely alliances
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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 ...

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Kurdish forces repel ISIS offensive in Iraq - CNN Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:31:32 GMT

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Kurdish forces repel ISIS offensive in Iraq
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... 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 helpWashington Post (blog)
ISIS Attacks Near Erbil, Iraq, Repelled by Peshmerga: Kurdish SourcesNBCNews.com
Peshmerga 'repel major IS attack in northern Iraq'BBC News
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RAF jets destroy IS rocket launcher in Iraq - BBC News Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:16:34 GMT

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RAF jets destroy IS rocket launcher in Iraq
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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 ...

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Is the US prepared to confront ISIS beyond Iraq and Syria? - CBS News Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:05:05 GMT

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Is the US prepared to confront ISIS beyond Iraq and Syria?
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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 saysLos Angeles Times
Islamic State militants 'burn to death 45 in Iraq'BBC News
Iraq tells United Nations that Islamic State committed genocideReuters
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