Wall Street Journal | Oil Falters Despite Iraq's Promise of Production Cuts Wall Street Journal Oil prices inched lower Wednesday with a surging dollar outweighing a public commitment from Iraq's oil minister to cut production along with OPEC. Light, sweet crude for January delivery settled down 7 cents, or 0.1%, to $47.96 a barrel on the New ... US crude settles down 7 cents at $47.96 as doubts linger over OPEC output cut Oil price firms after Iraq says it is ready to cut output Iraq Now Says It Will Join OPEC Output Cuts |
CNN | Mosul battle: Iraq militias 'cut off IS access to city' BBC News An Iraqi paramilitary force says it has seized a key road west of Mosul, effectively encircling the city controlled by so-called Islamic State. The Popular Mobilisation (Hashd al-Shaabi) declared it had taken control of the road between Tal Afar and ... In biblical lands of Iraq, Christianity in peril after ISIS As civilians flee Mosul, Iraq implores Kurds to open safe passage ISIS Used Chemical Arms at Least 52 Times in Syria and Iraq, Report Says |
World Politics Review | The Battle to Repair Iraq's Social Fabric, Beyond Mosul's Front Lines World Politics Review The town represents a strategically significant objective in the fight to secure northern Iraq and reintegrate liberated communities into the Iraqi state. But in their advance toward Mosul, Iraqi forces bypassed Hawija, leaving its liberation to the ... Iraq's never-ending woes |
War on the Rocks | Phases of War and the Iraq Experience War on the Rocks The difficulties of applying the U.S. military's phasing construct to the realities of conflict are rarely more evident than when examining the American experience in Iraq. Though U.S. involvement in Iraq has traditionally been divided into two ... |
AMN Al-Masdar News (registration) | Arrest warrants for Iraq journalists over Saudi paper false report AMN Al-Masdar News (registration) (AFP) A Baghdad court has issued arrest warrants for two correspondents with a Saudi newspaper over a fabricated report accusing Iranian pilgrims of sexually harassing Iraqi women. A senior source in Iraq's judiciary told AFP Wednesday that the ... Arrest warrants for Iraq journalists over false report |
Washington Post | Families of US POWs executed in Iraq ask why Pentagon isn't aiding lawsuit Washington Post Families of two American prisoners of war executed in Iraq and the widow of a U.S. diplomat assassinated in Jordan are asking why the Pentagon will not clear former officials to testify, even in closed sessions, in a lawsuit seeking damages from Syria ... |
International Affairs Review | Iraq's Fight may be far from Over International Affairs Review With the assault on Mosul underway, the Islamic State's (ISIL) territorial demise in Iraq is all but certain. Yet, as many experts focus on future attacks abroad, a key lesson from the war in Afghanistan has been forgotten. The United States all but ... |
Coalition launches 17 strikes in Syria, Iraq Kuwait News Agency WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (KUNA) -- The US-led coalition against the so-called Islamic State (IS) launched 17 air strikes in Syria and Iraq Tuesday, the Combined Joint task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) said in its daily report. In Syria, 11 ... |
Military Times | US airstrikes from carrier Eisenhower top 1000 against ISIS in Iraq and Syria Military Times USS EISENHOWER, Persian Gulf — One after another, fighter jets catapult from the flight deck of the USS Eisenhower, a thousand-foot (305-meter) American aircraft carrier, afterburners glowing amber above the blue Persian Gulf, on their way northwest ... Coalition Strikes Continue Against ISIL Terrorists in Syria, Iraq |
Hollywood's war on terror: why audiences prefer gung-ho Iraq films The Guardian It seems odd that a pro-war film about the Iraq war would resonate with a wide audience, given the fact that the Iraq war was, by its conclusion, wildly unpopular. In 2014, when Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle was gazing manfully out of movie screens and ... |