The Hill | Dems hear echoes of Iraq in Iran debate The Hill Some Democrats feel like the debate over the Iran nuclear deal is the Iraq war all over again. As Congress mulls whether or not to endorse the landmark international accord, liberal lawmakers and activists are hearing echoes of the 2002 vote to ... |
NPR | 25 Years In Iraq, With No End In Sight NPR It started so well. When Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, the United States swiftly cobbled together a broad coalition, unleashed a stunning new generation of air power and waged a lightning ground offensive that lasted all of four ... August 2, 1990: Iraq Invades Kuwait 25 years ago Iraq invaded Kuwait, changing the world Considering Iran on the 25th Anniversary of Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait |
Daily Mail | Rivers dry up in Iraq as country struggles through heatwave Daily Mail The people of Iraq today continued to battle through temperatures so hot that the country has been given a mandatory four-day holiday. Scorching weather is normal for the time of year, but the unprecedented heatwave prompted authorities to declare a ... |
The Independent | Kurdish villagers under fire in PKK-controlled Iraq say Turkey is 'no ... The Independent For the Turkish Kurds in northern Iraq, the bombing raids, abandoned villages and innocent lives lost are all-too-familiar tragedies. On the outskirts of the Iraqi town of Makhmour on Sunday, two Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) soldiers stood guard ... Turkish Airstrikes In Iraq Target Kurdish PKK Militants, Not Civilians ... Iraq's Kurds Ask PKK Rebels To Withdraw Iraq's Kurdistan laments caught in middle of Turkey-PKK fight |
Refinery29 | Here's What It's Really Like to Be A 23-Year-Old American Woman Living in Iraq Refinery29 Not too long ago, Rachel Sider, 23, was an undergraduate at Middlebury College in Vermont, going to class and hanging out on the picturesque campus—and about as far away from a war zone as one can get. Today, she lives in Erbil, Iraq, where she's a ... |
Voice of America | One Year After Massacre, Iraq's Yazidis a Broken People Voice of America LALISH, IRAQ—. A year ago, on August 3, Islamic State militants stormed the homelands of Iraq's Yazidi minority, killing hundreds of men and enslaving thousands of women. The scenes of desperate Yazidi families crowding on the top of Sinjar mountain ... |
Center for Research on Globalization | ISIL and its So-Called Caliphate: Israeli-US Tools to Divide Iraq Center for Research on Globalization This short documentary examines the support that the US and Israel are providing to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which use to call itself Al-Qaeda in Iraq and more recently calls itself the Islamic State, and its self ... |
The National | Airstrikes Continue Against ISIL Terrorists in Syria, Iraq Department of Defense SOUTHWEST ASIA, Aug. 1, 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. Coalition ... Why Iran's role in Syria and Iraq remains limited US, allies target ISIL with 30 air strikes in Iraq, Syria Military airstrikes continue against ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq |
Reuters | US reports 24 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria Yahoo News WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies carried out 18 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and six in Syria on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday. Eighteen strikes in Iraq hit militant targets near seven different cities ... US, allies target Islamic State with 30 air strikes in Iraq, Syria: US military Pummeled in its capital, Islamic State group still hanging tough across Iraq ... |
The Seattle Times | Iraq's hot weather and spotty electricity lead to protests The Seattle Times Earlier Friday, in the weekly sermon in the shrine city of Karbala that typically addresses the political issues of the day, a representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric, had exhorted the government ... 1332 people killed in Iraq in July: UN report In Iraq, summer camps teach kids combat 1300 People Die in Iraq in July Amid ISIL Violence |