Wall Street Journal | Former Blackwater Guards Appeal Sentence in Iraq Shooting Case Wall Street Journal Former Blackwater USA private security guards serving lengthy prison terms for the shooting deaths of 14 Iraqis in a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007 tried to convince an appeals court Tuesday to overturn their convictions, arguing they were improperly ... |
Popular Science | Editorial: The Iraq pit Boulder Daily Camera One question that should be high on the foreign policy agenda of President-elect Donald Trump is whether America should continue the war in Iraq, which now risks having ensnared three U.S. presidents. The Iraq War has now cost the taxpayers $2 trillion. ISIS is dropping bombs with drones in Iraq Iraqi forces push Islamic State further back in Mosul: military Watch Iraq's elite Counter Terrorism Service fight their way through the streets of ISIS' last Iraqi stronghold |
Kirkuk Archbishop: Aid for Iraq Best Targeted at Home Voice of America Kirkuk's Archbishop Yousif Mirkis, who is visiting France, called Tuesday for an initiative for Iraq similar to the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II. He said the the effort and money Western countries spend in taking in refugees ... |
Military Strikes Continue Against ISIL Terrorists in Syria and Iraq, January 16, 2017 eNews Park Forest SOUTHWEST ASIA–(ENEWSPF)—January 16, 2017. On Jan. 15, Coalition military forces conducted 18 strikes against ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq. In Syria, Coalition military forces conducted 13 strikes using attack, bomber, fighter and remotely ... |
Minuteman | 315th delivers aid bound for refugees in northern Iraq Minuteman 13, 2017 at Minneapolis-St. Paul Air Reserve Station, Minnesota. The 315th AW hauled more than 50,000 pounds in donated meals to Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The cargo will be later delivered to refugees in northern Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior ... |
Reuters | OPEC Commitments Push Iraq Towards Oil Export Deal With Kurds OilPrice.com This oil is produced by the Iraqi federal government in northern Iraq, but exported via a pipeline system owned by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). At the height of the squabble, Baghdad was considering attempting to bypass the Kurdish pipeline ... Iraq's southern oil exports fall since start of OPEC cut - loading data Iraq Ministry of Oil News: The Minister of Oil: Iraq is Keen to Succeed the Agreement of OPEC to Cut Production |
Raw Story | 'You literally caused the Iraq War': Internet rips Judith Miller for blaming war deaths on Chelsea Manning Raw Story Miller, the self-proclaimed “First Amendment activist” whose reporting on nonexistent weapons of mass destruction for the New York Times served to legitimize the Bush Administration's push for the Iraq War, railed against President Obama's commutation. Barack Obama commutes Chelsea Manning sentence |
CBC.ca | Ottawa boosts security in 1991 after US-led coalition attacks Iraq CBC.ca Twenty-six years ago today, people in Ottawa woke up to a city gripped by bomb scares and added security measures as a result of the U.S.-led attack on Iraq the night before. For months, the world had been anxiously expecting war in the Middle East ... |
The Intercept | The Horror of the Iraq War, One Hundred Years From Now The Intercept AFTER SADDAM HUSSEIN, after the U.S. invasion, after the Islamic State, what will Iraq ultimately look like? The future of Iraq, its borders, economy, religious and cultural identity, is a matter of constant speculation for foreign policy experts. Now ... |
IRINnews.org | IRIN | Iraq's growing mental health problem IRINnews.org As more and more Iraqi civilians flee IS rule, it's clear there's a lack of trained professionals to treat a plethora of mental health issues. |