CNN | Navy SEAL killed in Iraq after ISIS breaks through Peshmerga lines CNN The death is the third U.S. combat casualty since the U.S. redeployed forces to Iraq in the summer of 2014 to advise local forces and conduct special operations against ISIS. Marine Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin was killed in March in a rocket attack on a ... Navy SEAL Is Killed in Northern Iraq in Fight With ISIS US Navy SEAL killed by ISIS in Iraq firefight identified Navy SEAL killed by ISIS fire in Iraq identified |
Washington Post | The White House's Iraq delusion Washington Post But already he has proved incapable of addressing Iraq's fundamental political problem, which is the schism among the Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities. That brings us to the Obama administration's second error: an unwillingness to accept that Iraq ... Don't let Iraq turmoil slow down fight against ISIL US on verge of 'losing Iraq completely to Iran' After Green Zone Protests, Can Iraq Be Salvaged? |
The Atlantic | Another Troop Death: The Evolution of US Engagement in Iraq ABC News This morning Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that a U.S. service member had died in northern Iraq after ISIS penetrated the front lines of Kurdish Peshmerga forces. U.S. troops were providing support for the Peshmerga as they encountered an ISIS ... An American Service Member Is Killed in Iraq US service member killed near Irbil, Iraq in 'enemy fire' American killed in combat in Iraq, defense officials say |
Chicago Tribune | Navy SEAL killed in Iraq identified as an Arizona native Chicago Tribune The Navy SEAL killed in Iraq on Tuesday was identified as Charlie Keating IV, a former Phoenix high school star distance runner and the grandson of the late Arizona financier involved in the 1980s savings and loan scandal. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey ... |
Islamic State kills US Navy SEAL in northern Iraq Reuters A senior official within the Kurdish peshmerga forces facing Islamic State in northern Iraq said the man had been killed near the town of Tel Asqof, around 28 kilometers (17 miles) from the militant stronghold of Mosul. The Islamic State insurgents ... |
Vox | Why protesters overran Iraq's Parliament Vox On Saturday, hundreds of supporters of an influential Iraqi Shia cleric busted into the Green Zone, the heavily fortified area in the center of Baghdad that's home to Iraq's main government buildings and is normally off-limits to ordinary Iraqis, to ... A renegade Shi'ite cleric is poised to be Iraq's next kingmaker Iraq Cleric's Moves Test Political Order The Man At The Center Of Iraq's Political Storm |
U.S. News & World Report | U.S. Service Member Killed by Islamic State in Iraq U.S. News & World Report STUTTGART, Germany – An American service member supporting the campaign against the Islamic State group was killed by enemy forces Tuesday in northern Iraq, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said. Carter was informed of the news as he left the stage ... US Serviceman Killed by ISIS in Iraq Islamic State fire kills American in combat in Iraq Secretary of Defense: American killed in combat in Iraq |
UN News Centre | Greater assistance needed to help tackle Iraq's humanitarian crisis – UN refugee agency UN News Centre 3 May 2016 – The United Nations refugee agency has reported that Iraq will continue to need greater humanitarian assistance as the country's displacement crisis shows no sign of easing, with more than 3.4 million people displaced and ongoing conflict ... |
Iraq holding hundreds of detainees in 'inhumane conditions': Amnesty Reuters BAGHDAD Amnesty International said on Tuesday Iraq is holding more than 1,000 detainees, some as young as 15, without charge in "inhumane and degrading conditions" at makeshift holding centers in western Anbar province. The London-based human ... |
BuzzFeed News | The Media Keeps Letting Trump Get Away With His Iraq Lie BuzzFeed News It was the most recent in a series of belligerent statements about Iraq. In 2000, he opined at length in his book how U.S. airstrikes did nothing to stop Iraq's WMD programs and said it “is madness not to carry the mission to its conclusion” in the ... |