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Kurdish Fighters Rescue Swedish Teenager in Iraq - New York Times Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:05:14 GMT

New York Times

Kurdish Fighters Rescue Swedish Teenager in Iraq New York Times The Americans are mostly in an advisory role, but they have participated in at least one raid with Kurdish commandos, in the northern Iraqi town of Hawija. In recent weeks, more United States Special Forces soldiers have arrived in Iraq on a mission to ... Iraqi Kurds rescue Swedish teen from ISIS territoryCBS News Kurdish Special Forces Rescue Swedish Girl From ISIS in IraqNewsweek Swedish teenager rescued from Isis in IraqThe Guardian CNN -Daily Mail -Telegraph.co.uk all 441 news articles »

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Beyond Syria and Iraq: ISIS is losing ground around the world - Vox Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:30:05 GMT

Vox

Beyond Syria and Iraq: ISIS is losing ground around the world Vox Libyan fighters are celebrating a major victory on Tuesday: They've driven ISIS out of parts of Benghazi, eastern Libya's largest city, building on advances in and around the city on Sunday. ISIS isn't just losing in Benghazi. In its home base in Syria ... and more »

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Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq - The Guardian Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:35:54 GMT

The Guardian

Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq The Guardian A garbage collector on a rubbish dump in Erbil, in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdistan region. 'Iraq has become a kleptocracy on a scale unprecedented in modern history, where whole budgets of ministries are siphoned off by a few officials,' writes Dr ...

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Back to Iraq: US Military Contractors Return In Droves - Defense One Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:56:47 GMT

Defense One

Back to Iraq: US Military Contractors Return In Droves Defense One The number of private contractors working for the U.S. Defense Department in Iraq grew eight-fold over the past year, a rate that far outpaces the growing number of American troops training and advising Iraqi soldiers battling Islamic State militants ...

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Defense Contractors Are Back in Business in Iraq - The Fiscal Times Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:42:42 GMT

The Fiscal Times

Defense Contractors Are Back in Business in Iraq The Fiscal Times The number of private contractors working for the U.S. Defense Department in Iraq grew eight-fold over the past year, a rate that far outpaces the growing number of American troops training and advising Iraqi soldiers battling Islamic State militants ... and more »

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Radioactive material, lost in Iraq, is found - USA TODAY Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:24:10 GMT

USA TODAY

Radioactive material, lost in Iraq, is found USA TODAY Radioactive material reported missing from a storage bunker in southern Iraq has been found abandoned at an Iraqi gas station, authorities say. "We are pleased that the source has been located without incident," said the Texas-based firm Weatherford in ... Missing Radioactive Material Found Undamaged In South IraqHuffington Post all 9 news articles »

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Iraq and Libya are harder the second time - Newsday Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:12:15 GMT

Newsday

Iraq and Libya are harder the second time Newsday When the president and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pulled the last U.S. troops out of Iraq, they boasted of a campaign promise kept. Conservative critics warned, however, that if the precarious peace was not nurtured, it would shatter, the ...

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ISIS Feels Strain in Iraq as Forces Prep to Retake Mosul: US Commander - Military.com Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:48:26 GMT

Military.com

ISIS Feels Strain in Iraq as Forces Prep to Retake Mosul: US Commander Military.com The weather in Iraq has been ripe for fighting but Islamic State militants have been lying low, according to the commander of U.S. and coalition troops aiding Iraqi security forces in the country. "For the past two days, we've had horrendous weather ... 82nd Airborne commander sees progress in Iraq as deployment endsFayetteville Observer all 12 news articles »

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Kurdish Forces Remove Swedish Girl From Islamic State Hub in Iraq - Wall Street Journal Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:19:00 GMT

Kurdish Forces Remove Swedish Girl From Islamic State Hub in Iraq Wall Street Journal BAGHDAD—Kurdish special forces removed a 16-year-old Swedish girl from an Islamic State stronghold, Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday, in a rare extraction of one of the hundreds of European nationals believed to have moved to territory the ...

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Michael Hayden: Blame Intel Agencies, Not White House, For Getting Iraq Wrong - NPR Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:54:22 GMT

NPR

Michael Hayden: Blame Intel Agencies, Not White House, For Getting Iraq Wrong NPR The former head of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael Hayden, says U.S. intelligence agencies got it wrong when they concluded Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and they should take the blame for that, rather than the White House. "It was ... and more »