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Iraq's Assyrians battle ISIS for survival - CNN Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:16:40 GMT

Iraq's Assyrians battle ISIS for survival
CNN
Nils Metzger is a freelance journalist who traveled in Iraq during March 2015 with photographer Andy Spyra, whose images are featured in this story. (CNN) When ISIS overran their villages near Mosul in August 2014, a small group of Assyrians, a Middle ...

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Getting ISIS Out of Iraq - New York Times Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:17:11 GMT

Daily Beast

Getting ISIS Out of Iraq
New York Times
Over the past year, the areas it controlled that were most threatening to our regional allies in Iraq and Syria have shrunk by more than a third. The Islamic State's fighters have been pushed back from the Mosul Dam in Kurdish Iraq, the town of Kobani ...
A Colorado Biker Who Calls Himself 'Necromancer' Is Fighting ISIS In IraqDaily Beast
US: Iraq troops clear ISIL fighters from country's largest oil refineryAl Jazeera America
US, Iraqi forces retake key oil refinery from ISISCNN
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Iraq Fighting Triggers Humanitarian Crisis Near Baghdad - Wall Street Journal Mon, 20 Apr 2015 07:34:06 GMT

Wall Street Journal

Iraq Fighting Triggers Humanitarian Crisis Near Baghdad
Wall Street Journal
AMRIYAT AL-FALLUJAH, Iraq—Fighting between Islamic State and Iraqi security forces has displaced at least 90,000 civilians in the past several days, the United Nations said on Sunday, as a new humanitarian crisis unfolded on the fringes of the capital.
ISIS continues deadly assault on western Iraq as thousands fleeFox News
Iraq's Leader Finds Friends In Washington, But Faces Battles At HomeNPR (blog)
Islamic State, security forces clash in Iraq's largest refineryReuters
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BP says taking more oil from Iraq as payment - Reuters Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:04:31 GMT

Reuters

BP says taking more oil from Iraq as payment
Reuters
L) has been lifting more crude oil cargoes in the past couple of months as payment for its work in southern Iraq, and is comfortable with that level of shipments, a senior executive of the oil company said on Monday. Low oil prices and the fight ...
Iraq oil exports slip so far in April, still near recordEconomic Times

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Ramadi exodus compounds Iraq humanitarian crisis - Reuters Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:12:47 GMT

Reuters

Ramadi exodus compounds Iraq humanitarian crisis
Reuters
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Some pushed wheelbarrows piled high with their belongings across the only bridge to Baghdad. Others balanced battered suitcases on their heads, or held babies aloft so they would not be crushed in the exodus from Iraq's western ...
More than 90000 flee Iraq's Anbar provinceAl-Arabiya
Coalition carries out 26 strikes against IS in IraqYahoo News
U.N.: Over 90000 displaced in western IraqUPI.com
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Military Airstrikes Hit ISIL in Syria, Iraq - Department of Defense Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:53:49 GMT

World Tribune

Military Airstrikes Hit ISIL in Syria, Iraq
Department of Defense
SOUTHWEST ASIA, April 20, 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 ...
US-led coalition say ongoing air strikes in Iraq are reversing ISIL gainsWorld Tribune
Iran supporting Iraq's unity, territorial integrity: OfficialPress TV
Military airstrikes continue against ISIL in Syria and IraqDVIDS (press release) (registration)
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Only one presidential candidate voted for war with Iraq: Hillary Clinton - Baltimore Sun Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:01:32 GMT

Baltimore Sun

Only one presidential candidate voted for war with Iraq: Hillary Clinton
Baltimore Sun
Blaming the Iraq War for the world's problems or using it as a way to deflect legitimate criticism of Mr. Obama's foreign policy remains the primary rhetorical gimmick for many liberals. For instance, Clinton ur-spinner James Carville dismissed Ms ...
Iraq war vote 'disqualifies' ClintonPress TV

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The secret plot behind the creation of ISIS - Vox Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:40:17 GMT

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The secret plot behind the creation of ISIS
Vox
As Der Spiegel's Reuter writes, there are unmistakable parallels in the architectures of ISIS and of Saddam's Iraq. "The two systems ultimately shared a conviction that control over the masses should lie in the hands of a small elite that should not be ...
Haji Bakr: Former Saddam Hussein spy is mastermind behind Isis takeover of ...The Independent

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'On Call in Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story' by Richard Jaddick may be subject ... - The Augusta Chronicle Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:40:50 GMT

The Augusta Chronicle

'On Call in Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story' by Richard Jaddick may be subject ...
The Augusta Chronicle
The book On Call in Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story by retired Navy Commander Richard Jadick has been optioned to be made into a movie and famed director/producer Ridley Scott, best known for the movies Alien, Gladiator, and Blade Runner is listed as ...

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Art in Iraq: 'Baghdad is happening! It's like New York...' - The Guardian Sun, 19 Apr 2015 08:30:11 GMT

The Guardian

Art in Iraq: 'Baghdad is happening! It's like New York...'
The Guardian
Adel barely remembers the prewar Iraq, cut off from the world. But he is a product of an Iraqi society deeply rooted in the arts and a child of the internet. Without enough money even to travel back to visit his hometown, he has exhibited his work ...

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