CNN | Nearly 500 bodies exhumed from graves in Iraq, morgue official CNN Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) An Iraqi forensic team has exhumed 499 bodies from a series of graves in the presidential complex in the city of Tikrit, a top official in the Baghdad morgue who is familiar with the operation told CNN on Thursday. The bodies are ... Iraq exhumes 470 bodies from Tikrit mass grave Iraq exhumes 470 bodies from Tikrit mass graves — minister Iraq exhumes 470 bodies from mass graves near Tikrit |
New York Times | Sunnis Fleeing ISIS Find Few Doors Open Elsewhere in Iraq New York Times AMIRIYAT FALLUJA, Iraq — On one side of a rickety bridge that spans a narrow stretch of the Euphrates River were panicked families on the run from Islamic State forces, hoping to escape Anbar Province and reach safety in Baghdad. On the other side ... Did Iraq's Army Genuinely 'Collapse' In Ramadi (And Mosul)? What Really ... Why Republicans can't blame Obama for Iraq or ISIS White House: US won't be 'responsible' for 'security situation' in Iraq |
Remembering Libya: Hillary's Iraq Daily Caller If you're a Republican planning to run in 2016, you're going to be asked about Iraq — and you're expected to say it was mistake. While it is legitimate to ask members of the party chiefly responsible for a military venture that cost hundreds of ... |
RealClearPolitics | KT McFarland: "The Dirty Little Secret Is There Is No More Iraq" RealClearPolitics FOX News Contributor and former Reagan State Department public affairs official K.T. McFarland says the Obama administration not only has to admit their Iraq strategy is not working but acknowledge the "dirty little secret" that Iraq as a nation does ... |
Christian Science Monitor | Iraq's Sunni-Shiite divide: Does US experience show how it can be bridged? Christian Science Monitor On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi officially renamed the military offensive that was launched to retake Anbar province from Islamic State (IS) militants “Lubbayk ya Iraq,” or “At your service, Iraq.” The operation was originally dubbed ... |
NewsBusters (blog) | Gasp! 60 Minutes Actually Admits That Obama Bungled in Abandoning Iraq NewsBusters (blog) Well, that's one way of looking at it, though it lacks a crucial detail -- the territory in Iraq that was "won by the U.S. at great cost," Pelley asserts, was subsequently lost because "the Iraqi military wasn't strong enough to hold the enemy back ... |
Family of Rafael Peralta, fallen Iraq war hero, to accept Navy Cross award ... Washington Post The family of one of the most celebrated Marine Corps heroes of the Iraq war will soon accept the nation's second-highest award for valor on his behalf, nearly 11 years after he was killed in combat and almost seven years after the Pentagon made the ... |
Iraq Doses The Market With Oil Forbes Iraq has announced a shipping schedule next month that implies an increase in exports of 800 tb/d, an amount that only the Saudis have been able to match historically. Markets appear to be skeptical, and a degree of caution is certainly in order, but ... |
Odierno on Iraq: 'It's incredibly disappointing to me' Military Times Ray Odierno, who served multiple tours in Iraq, including as the top commander of U.S. and coalition forces in country. "They have to have the will to fight. It always goes back to the government of Iraq. Unless you get everyone to believe the ... |
The Inquisitr | Republicans Want You to Forget Why Sending Troops Back to Iraq Is a Terrible ... Huffington Post As the Republican presidential demolition derby continues, the 2016 GOP candidates have settled on two central themes: hatred for President Barack Obama and desire to send U.S. troops back to Iraq to fight ISIS. While Republicans suffer from short-term ... RETURN TO REASON George W. Bush Didn't Lie About Saddam Hussein Or Iraq's WMD Stockpiles ... Why US invaded -- and failed in Iraq |