Forbes | With Iraq And Mosul, Will Iran Become An Oil Superpower? Forbes Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers fire artillery at Islamic State positions in Bashiqa, east of Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 7, 2016. Iraqi Kurdish fighters are exchanging heavy fighters with militants as they advance from two directions on a town held by the ... Iraqi forces recapture key air base near Mosul Watch a US-led coalition airstrike wipe out a weapons factory near ISIS' last Iraqi stronghold Iraq's al-Abadi: Hashd al-Shaabi will not enter Tal Afar |
Foreign Policy (blog) | Iraq's 'Good Sunni' Foreign Policy (blog) SHIRQAT, Iraq — At 4 a.m. on Sept. 19, the young fighters of Liwa Salahaddin could barely stand still. The air was cold, the sun had not yet risen, and the battle to liberate their northern Iraqi hometown from the Islamic State was about to begin. “My ... |
Iraq: 'Now we have a grave to visit' Aljazeera.com Last May, more than 50 mass graves were discovered in territory formerly controlled by ISIL, including three burial pits in a football field, according to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq. So far, only one body has been ... |
Hurriyet Daily News | Iraq +100 Hurriyet Daily News “Iraq +100” poses a question to 10 Iraqi writers: What might your country look like in the year 2103. The resulting book is a bracing and unsettling anthology of visions set 100 years on from the catastrophic Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and 87 ... |
Bloomberg | Iran, Iraq Oil Ministers Said to Skirt Energy Talks With Saudis Bloomberg Iraq's oil minister will bypass energy talks this week in Qatar, where rival producer Saudi Arabia plans to hold talks with Russia on possible collective action to limit production. His Iranian counterpart is also said to be giving the meeting a miss ... Iraq sustains high crude output in October |
FRANCE 24 | Video: Iraq's ancient city of Nimrud reduced to ruins by Islamic State group FRANCE 24 "The place was completely destroyed. The Islamic State group is destroying our heritage and fighting against humanity," an Iraqi soldier in Nimrud told FRANCE 24. Iraq's antiquities authority has said it is working on sending field teams to assess the ... Iraq Nimrud: An ancient city reduced to rubble by IS Iraq says ancient city of Nimrud destroyed by ISIL Devastation greets liberators of Iraq's 3000-year-old monuments |
CBS News | Iraqi militia threatens Islamic State's supply route to Syria Reuters The capture of the base, if confirmed, could be a significant development in the campaign to recapture Mosul, Islamic State's de facto capital since its forces swept through Iraq in 2014 and set up a self-declared caliphate in a swathe of Syria and ... Pushing into Mosul, troops find traps, kids hurt and heritage destroyed Iraq Christians tell tales of survival in the 'caliphate' What is Trump's next move in Iraq? |
Aljazeera.com (blog) | The man who serves up little smiles in Iraq's refugee camp Aljazeera.com (blog) Sulaimania, Iraq - It's recess at the makeshift school in the Ashti camp for internally displaced people and Haidar Ibrahim is ready to receive his throng of little customers. On the outskirts of Sulaimania in Iraq's Kurdistan region, in a small shack ... |
Azerbaijan jails 7 who joined militants in Syria, Iraq Fox News BAKU, Azerbaijan – A court in Azerbaijan's capital has convicted seven Azerbaijani citizens accused of joining the Islamic State group and other alleged extremists in Syria and Iraq. The court in Baku on Wednesday sentenced the men to prison terms that ... |
CBC.ca | Canadians destroy explosives-laden vehicles with anti-armour missiles in Iraq CBC.ca Canadian troops supporting Kurdish allies have destroyed three explosive-laden vehicles with anti-armour missiles, senior military officials revealed Wednesday, as they started lifting the veil on what the country's forces are doing in Iraq. Maj.-Gen. Canada says military trainers involved in frequent clashes in Iraq Admit it: Our troops are in combat in Iraq |