New York Times | Magazine|How Many Guns Did the US Lose Track of in Iraq and Afghanistan? Hundreds of Thousands. New York Times Veterans of the latest war in Iraq immediately recognized it. It was a standard American carbine equipped with a holographic sight, a foregrip that was military-issue during the occupation and a sticker bearing a digital QR code used by American forces ... Guns sold, guns lost: What Pentagon sent to Iraq & Afghanistan after 9/11 The US government has given 1.4 million guns to Iraq and Afghanistan |
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle | 2nd BCT fire missions in Iraq Clarksville Leaf Chronicle U.S. Soldiers with Battery C, 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, Task Force Strike, execute a fire mission with an M777 howitzer during an operation to support Iraqi security forces at Kara Soar Base, Iraq, Aug. 7, 2016. Battery C Soldiers ... |
Reuters | Iraq Needs Oil Companies to Drill More, But Can it Pay? OilPrice.com The Iraqi government is asking international oil companies operating in the country to continue to produce oil, but to get used to lower oil prices. Iraq's oil minister Jabbar al-Luaibi sent a letter to several foreign oil companies, asking them not to ... Iraq has not yet reached its full oil market share, says PM Iraq Seeks More Oil Production Before OPEC Talks in Algeria Iraq asks oil companies to raise production and exports |
YLE News | Finland Arrests Iraqi Suspected of Killings in 2014 in Iraq ABC News The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation says the suspected crimes were committed at Camp Speicher, a former U.S. base just outside Tikrit in northern Iraq. The agency said Wednesday that the suspect, who was not identified, arrived in Finland in ... Finland arrests suspect in 2014 Islamic State mass killing in Iraq |
PoliticusUSA | Joe Scarborough Lies About Trump's Support for Iraq War and Libya Invention PoliticusUSA Morning Joe has its moments of lucidity, rather like an MSNBC version of Megyn Kelly, but Joe jumped the shark this morning by claiming that you can't say Trump supported either the Iraq War or the Libya intervention, even though Joe said in May that ... |
The Sun | Girl sets herself on FIRE in Iraq to stop ISIS raping her The Sun It was on August 3, 2014, that ISIS fighters swept into the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, home to the majority of the world's Yazidis. They rounded up the Yazidis into three groups: Young boys who were made to fight for ISIS, older males who were ... |
Voice of America | Sectarian Abuses in Iraq Help Ensure IS Survival Voice of America FILE - Shiite fighters clash with Islamic State group fighters at the frontline in Tikrit, Iraq, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Feb. 7, 2016. Iraq's Shiite militias, mobilized in 2014 to fight the Islamic State group, are now showing they ... Special Report: Massacre reports show US inability to curb Iraq militias US-Backed Militias Tortured and Killed Hundreds in Iraq UN Slams Executions In Iraq |
CNN | Iraq stops would-be child bomber for ISIS CNN (CNN) A boy stands shaking in the street. Fear etched across his face. Two men flank him on either side as a third rips through the boy's Barcelona football shirt to reveal what appears to be an explosive belt. The Iraqi security officers grip the boy ... Child suicide bombing foiled in Iraq As ISIS loses ground in Syria and Iraq, is it turning to more child bombers? Photos: Boy caught before detonating explosive belt in Iraq |
UNHCR | UNHCR prepares for massive displacement from Iraq's Mosul UNHCR “Mosul is Iraq's second largest city, and the humanitarian impact of a military offensive there is expected to be enormous. Up to 1.2 million people could be affected,” UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards told a news briefing in Geneva on Tuesday (August ... UN warns of huge displacement crisis in Iraq |
Al-Arabiya | Iraq forces advance in town south of Mosul Al-Arabiya ISIS has suffered a string of setbacks in Iraq and the “caliphate” it proclaimed two years ago has been shrinking steadily for a year. Its fighters are vastly outnumbered in Nineveh but one of the toughest challenges for Iraq will be the mass ... UN braces for refugee exodus from Iraq's Mosul UN Desperate to Find Land for New Camps in Iraq Ahead of Mosul Assault Battle looming: Iraqi troops, militia inch toward ISIS-held Mosul |