New York Times | Biden Cites Progress in Iraq's War With ISIS New York Times WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. offered an upbeat assessment of the battle against Islamic extremists in Iraq on Thursday, saying the government in that country was making “significant and growing” progress with help from the United ... Biden Says ISIS 'No Longer On The Move' In Iraq Vice President Joe Biden: Iraq Fight Against ISIS 'Moving in the Right Direction' Biden: Iraq's Momentum Is In The 'Right Direction' |
New York Times | A Struggle to Secure Iraq's Shared Past, and Perhaps Its Future New York Times BAGHDAD — Looted and shuttered after American troops seized Baghdad a dozen years ago, the National Museum of Iraq has officially reopened its doors — a response to Islamic State thugs' taking jackhammers to ancient treasures in Mosul. The message ... |
Wall Street Journal | After Minority Rule, Iraq's Sunnis Refuse Minority Role Wall Street Journal BAGHDAD—Ask anyone in Baghdad's Sunni Muslim neighborhood of Aadhamiye about life under Iraq's Shiite majority, and you're likely to get a puzzled reply: “What Shiite majority?” “Sunni Arabs aren't few. We are at least half the population of Iraq ... |
New York Times | Latest News: South Carolina Fallout, Tsarnaev Trial, Iraq Conflict New York Times And Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is giving a policy address on Iraq at 12:30 p.m. Eastern at the National Defense University in Washington. • Women's activists held in China. Five women, who have been detained for over a month for trying to ... |
Business Insider | ISIS kills 52 men in Iraq CNN Yazidis embrace after being released by ISIS south of Kirkuk, Iraq, on Wednesday, April 8. ISIS released more than 200 Yazidis, a minority group whose members were killed, captured and displaced when the Islamist terror organization overtook their ... The war against Islamic State (2) Syria and Iraq are awash with Russian, Iranian, and Chinese weapons Iraq: The lesser of two evils |
CNN | Lincoln Chafee launches 2016 exploratory committee, goes after Clinton on Iraq CNN "Considering the premise for invading Iraq was based on falsehoods and considering the ramifications we live with now from that mistake, I would argue that anybody who voted for the Iraq War should not be president and certainly should not be leading ... Lincoln Chafee, exploring 2016 run, says Clinton's Iraq vote should disqualify her Chafee hits Hillary on donations, Iraq vote |
Wall Street Journal | Islamic State Releases Over 200 Yazidi Hostages in Iraq Wall Street Journal The insurgents' threats to massacre thousands of Yazidis in northern Iraq last summer prompted a U.S.-led coalition to launch airstrikes against Islamic State. That was the beginning of America's first armed intervention in Iraq since it withdrew ... ISIS Frees 200 Yazidis Near Kirkuk, Iraq, After Months in Captivity Islamic State militants release 200 Yazidis in Iraq Islamic State releases more than 200 captive Yazidis in Iraq |
National Review Online | The Runaway Prosecutor Who Almost Lost Iraq National Review Online The most explosive story in Washington, D.C., this week isn't about Iran but about Iraq. It's about how a runaway special prosecutor wrecked America's chances of defeating the insurgency in the early days of the Iraq war, and left the region — and ... Judith Miller tries, and ultimately fails, to defend her flawed Iraq reporting How the obsessive, dishonest prosecution of Scooter Libby almost cost us Iraq Valerie Plame Blasts Ex-NY Times Reporter Judith Miller's 'Pathetic' Iraq War ... |
The Atlantic | 'Iraq Is Finished' The Atlantic Nor had I imagined at the time that I would find myself in Iraq after the invasion of 2003, initially as a British representative of the Coalition Provisional Authority—the international transitional government that ran the country for about a year ... David Petraeus: What has happened in Iraq is a tragedy Iraq: '10000 tribesmen join fight against ISIS' Iraq: '10000 tribesmen join fight against Daesh' |
ArmyTimes.com | 82nd Airborne to deploy to Iraq ArmyTimes.com About 500 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division will deploy this summer to Iraq and other locations in the region to support Operation Inherent Resolve. The deploying soldiers belong to the division headquarters at Fort Bragg, North Carolina ... 82nd Airborne Division headed to Iraq for nine months 82nd Airborne HQ Troops to Replace 1st Infantry Division in Iraq Soldiers from 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to Iraq |