Department of Defense | Troops in Iraq, Syria Ask Chairman's Senior Enlisted Advisor: 'What's Next?' Department of Defense Troxell, the senior enlisted advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited U.S. troops in Iraq, Syria and Jordan. "I wanted to see how we understood it and how we were getting after it," Troxell said in an interview. He said he also ... Russia accuses US of pretending to fight Islamic State in Syria, Iraq Russia reportedly accuses US of pretending to fight ISIS in Syria, Iraq Russia accuses US of going easy on ISIS in Iraq |
Reuters | Hundreds of suspected Islamic State militants surrender in Iraq: source Reuters He urged his followers to keep up the fight despite setbacks in Iraq and Syria. “Approximately 1,000 men surrendered over the last week. Not all, however, are terrorists,” said the security official in Erbil, the northern Iraqi base of the autonomous ... Iraq - Conflict (DG ECHO, UN, INGOs) (ECHO Daily Flash of 10 October 2017) Iraq Aims To Reopen Kirkuk-Turkey Oil Pipeline Bypassing Kurdistan Major oil pipeline between Iraq and Turkey to bypass Kurdish region |
Bloomberg | Iraq Plan to Fix Oil Pipeline to Turkey Bypasses, Isolates Kurds Bloomberg Iraq's oil minister ordered urgent repairs to a disused pipeline from northern fields to a Turkish port, a step that could eliminate the central government's need to export crude via Iraq's Kurdish region and further isolate the independence-seeking Kurds. Iraq to reopen oil pipeline to Turkey, bypassing one in Kurdistan Iraq to restore pipeline to Turkey, bypassing Kurdish region Iraq orders repair of Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, increasing pressure on Kurdistan |
Bloomberg | Iraq and Iran Boost Oil Exports in Sales Battle With Saudis Bloomberg Iraq shipped 3.98 million barrels of crude a day, the highest since December, while Iran's exports rose to 2.28 million barrels a day, the most since February, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. Saudi Arabia's exports were 6.68 ... |
Military Strikes Continue Against ISIS Terrorists in Syria, Iraq > U.S. ... Department of Defense U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, conducting 11 strikes consisting of 15 engagements, Combined Joint ... |
Express.co.uk | ISIS OBLITERATION: RAF warplanes destroy key terror targets in Iraq and Syria Express.co.uk In the summer ISIS was driven out of Iraq's second city, Mosul, and is thought to have a dwindling presence in there rest of Iraq while Raqqa is all but surrounded by Syrian fighters and is being pounded day and night by warplanes. The latest raids ... |
Task & Purpose | As The War In Iraq Winds Down, The US Military Shifts Its Attention To Afghanistan (Again) Task & Purpose For the second time in recent history, the winding down of U.S. military operations in the Middle East has allowed the Pentagon to ramp up the war in Afghanistan. While U.S.-backed forces fight to liberate the few remaining ISIS holdouts in Iraq and ... |
Reuters | Iraq's Basra Light crude remains under pressure in Asia: traders Reuters Iraq used to set monthly prices in line with Saudi Arabia, but the price gap widened after Iraq's Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) saw robust demand for its oil, which has become a staple for refiners in India, China and South Korea. The higher prices also ... |
Iraq Oil Minister Says Talks With ExxonMobil For Multibillion-Dollar Project In Final Stages E&P Iraq's talks with ExxonMobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) to develop a multibillion-dollar project to boost output from several southern oil fields are nearing completion, oil minister Jabar al-Luaibi said Oct. 9. "Talks are in advanced final stages with Exxon to ... |
Stars and Stripes | Rumor of Iraq village's death left US veterans searching for answers Stars and Stripes NEAR QAYARA AIRFIELD WEST, Iraq — Using online satellite photos, Fred Wellman stalked this cluster of small buildings over the past few years, fearing what had befallen the Iraqis he'd befriended here after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. As an Army ... |