Reliefweb | Iraq - Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #2, Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Reliefweb The U.S. Government (USG) provided an additional $197 million to address the needs of conflict-affected Iraqis, bringing total USG humanitarian assistance for the Iraq crisis to more than $1.3 billion since 2014. The new funding will support non ... |
Voice of America | The 16 Bodies in the Mosul Alleyway TIME The scene in the city's al-Aqeedat neighborhood stands as grim testimony to the soaring civilian death toll here, as Iraq's armed forces continue to battle through the section of the city west of the Tigris River. Reports of civilian casualties surged ... Civilian Deaths in Iraq, Syria Undercut US Victories In Iraq, UN chief Guterres urges more support for those who have 'suffered enormously' With nowhere to turn, refugees crowd makeshift camps as they flee the Islamic State in Iraq |
New York Times | UN Urges Iraq and Allies to Rethink Tactics as Airstrikes Kill Civilians New York Times GENEVA — Airstrikes against Islamic State fighters are killing so many civilians that Iraq and its American-led coalition of allies should reconsider their tactics, the top human rights official at the United Nations said on Tuesday. Zeid Ra'ad al ... Is Trump's 'secret plan' to defeat ISIS dragging us into another Iraq war? U.S. airstrikes have killed more and more civilians in Iraq and Syria since Trump took office Panic spreads in Iraq, Syria as record numbers of civilians reported killed in U.S. strikes |
Iraq Agrees To Accept Its Citizens The US Wants To Deport NPR Hundreds of Iraqis have remained in the U.S. after committing crimes because Iraq wouldn't take them back. Many are finally being deported after Iraq agreed to repatriate them as part of a deal to remove the country from President Trump's travel ban. |
Iraq Signals It Is Improving Compliance With OPEC Cuts OilPrice.com As part of the OPEC deal, Iraq has cut its oil production by more than 300,000 bpd, and so far in March its average output stands at 4.464 million bpd, according to Iraq's state oil marketing company SOMO. Iraq's compliance to OPEC's cuts is 90 percent ... Iraq oil output falls to 4.464 million bpd as part of OPEC cuts |
USA TODAY | Case of American kidnapped in Iraq reemerges USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Roy Hallums' first clue that something was up came when the FBI texted him with a bit of bizarre news. More than a dozen years after the Memphis resident was kidnapped and held captive for 311 days in Iraq, his harrowing ordeal has been ... |
NATO HQ (press release) | NATO - News: NATO delivers counter-IED equipment to Iraq, 31-Mar ... NATO HQ (press release) NATO delivered and demonstrated 160 sets of counter-IED equipment to Iraq's Ministry of Interior on Sunday (26 March 2017). Financed by NATO's Defence ... |
New York Times | Trump's Iraq 'Game Plan' New York Times How easy it is for him to send our soldiers into harm's way, and how untouched President Trump and his family will be as we continue a war in Iraq that should have ended years ago. I was hoping that Gen. Jim Mattis, the defense secretary, would be an ... |
I've worked more than a decade in Iraq. 'We are not afraid' is the wrong response to terror attacks. Washington Post I've spent more than a decade living in Iraq. I see what ISIS is capable of. I witness the devastation caused by extremism and by the fight against it. I'm on the front lines and I walk past burned-out buildings and the bodies of recently killed ISIS ... |
The Fiscal Times | How Many US Soldiers Are in Iraq? The Pentagon Will No Longer Answer That Question The Fiscal Times The Pentagon is no longer going to disclose how many troops are in Iraq and Syria, a sharp departure from an Obama administration policy that kept the public abreast of increased troop deployments to the region. Though the US military has increasingly ... |