U.S. News & World Report | CIA director warns Iranian general on Iraq Washington Post WASHINGTON — CIA Director Mike Pompeo says he sent a letter to a top Iranian military official warning him the United States would hold Tehran accountable for any attacks on American interests in Iraq by forces under Iranian control. Pompeo said Iran ... CIA Chief Pompeo Says He Warned Iran's Soleimani Over Iraq Aggression CIA Chief Sends Letter To Iranian General Over Threats To US Forces In Iraq |
Aljazeera.com | Iraq after ISIL: 'It was like a ghost town' Aljazeera.com Telskof, northern Iraq - Linda Adib Younis' house in the Iraqi town of Telskof has high ceilings, with shelves all the way to the top stacked with trinkets - cuddly toys, ornate porcelain figures, vases. There were even more before she was displaced by ... |
Reuters | France's Macron calls on Iraq to dismantle all militias - Reuters Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called on Iraq to dismantle all militias, including the government-sanctioned, Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a rare public call to do so by a major Western leader. French President Emmanuel Macron backs Iraq talks after Kurdish concessions France's Macron calls on Iraq to dismantle all militias Iraq deploys army near Peshmerga front, threatens to seize areas southeast Sulaimani |
Economic Times | Two mass graves found in Yazidi district of Iraq Economic Times BAGHDAD: Iraqi paramilitary forces have uncovered two more mass graves containing the bodies of 140 civilians, including women and children, in an area home to the Yazidi religious minority, they said today. In 2014, IS killed thousands of Yazidis in ... Dozens of Yazidi women and children's bodies found in Iraq mass graves |
Open Democracy | In search of cardinal virtues in Iraq Open Democracy Bullets on the ground in Mosul, Iraq, 01 June 2017. Picture by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. All right reserved. I arrived in Baghdad in November 2013. It was part of my doctoral research on the afterlives of the Iraqi Baʿth state's al ... |
The Jerusalem Post | Anti-ISIS coalition looks to stabilize Iraq and eastern Syria as war winds down The Jerusalem Post Retaking Mosul from ISIS (credit: SETH J. FRANTZMAN). “We are approaching a military shift,” says Maj.-Gen. Felix Gedney, the deputy-commander for strategy and support of the US-led coalition. “We are coming to an end of the liberation of Iraq and ... |
Aljazeera.com | How ISIL changed the oil map of Iraq | Kurds | Al Jazeera Aljazeera.com The last three years dramatically reshaped the oil map in Iraq, OPEC's second-largest producer. The dust from the military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) will take weeks if not months to settle, and ... After Islamic State, Baghdad cannot govern Iraq from centre |
The Nation | Iraq's Nov. Oil Exports From South Up at 3.5 Million bpd Financial Tribune Oil exports from Iraq's southern ports rose to an average of 3.5 million barrels per day in November from 3.35 million bpd in October, Basra Oil Company Director General Ihsan Abdul Jabbar said on Friday. Southern exports are on the rise, as Iraq looks ... How ISIL changed the oil map of Iraq |
The Jerusalem Post | Why Israel ignores Iraq - Israel News - Jerusalem Post The Jerusalem Post Israeli decision-makers' as well as commentators' lack of interest in the political developments in Iraq, leads them to exaggerate in Iranian influence in Iraq and lose track of alternative trends. |
The Guardian | Theresa May makes secret visit to Iraq The Guardian The UK has about 600 troops in Iraq, almost all involved in training Iraqi forces. At the Taji base, May said this was vital to ensure the forces “are able to conduct the operations they need to” against Islamic State. May told Sky News: “We need to ... UK's May Warns of Islamic State Threat During Visit to Iraq |