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AP: US contractor ignored security violations at Iraq base - CBS News Wed, 03 May 2017 08:57:00 GMT

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AP: US contractor ignored security violations at Iraq base
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Documents and interviews with two former internal investigators and a half-dozen former or current Sallyport Global staff describe schemes at Iraq's Balad Air Base that were major contract violations at best and, if proven, illegal. The fired ...
US firm in Iraq ignores smuggling, security risks for F-16sABC News
Military Fraud: Alcohol, Hookers Sent to Iraq War Base Via US Contractor, Report ClaimsNewsweek
US Military Contractors Involved In Sex Trafficking, Smuggling On Iraq Base: ReportJalopnik

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Commander: 101st Airborne soldiers participated in 'major transformation' while deployed to Iraq - ArmyTimes.com Wed, 03 May 2017 23:25:16 GMT

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Commander: 101st Airborne soldiers participated in 'major transformation' while deployed to Iraq
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The Iraqis went from a Baghdad-based force unable to project combat power to projecting it to northern Iraq. Pushing ISIS out of its safe haven in Fallujah, as well as much of the Euphrates and Tigris river areas and eastern Mosul. This resulted in ...

Inside 'Blackhearts' (II): Our lousy command relations frayed badly in Iraq - Foreign Policy (blog) Wed, 03 May 2017 14:44:00 GMT

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Inside 'Blackhearts' (II): Our lousy command relations frayed badly in Iraq
Foreign Policy (blog)
His combat experience includes multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Follow him on twitter @dansukman. This article represents the author's views, and not necessarily the views of the U.S. Army or Department of Defense. Furthermore, this ...

Iraq: 3RP Monthly Update - March 2017: Education - ReliefWeb Wed, 03 May 2017 18:01:48 GMT

Iraq: 3RP Monthly Update - March 2017: Education
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56,189 Syrian school aged refugee children (6-17 years) are residing in Iraq, 98% in the KRI. 32,158 are spread into urban, peri-urban and rural communities, while 24,031 are in camps. Of these 29,979 children enrolled in formal both in primary and ...

Iraq's fuel oil exports soar despite OPEC supply cut - Reuters Wed, 03 May 2017 09:02:18 GMT

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Iraq's fuel oil exports soar despite OPEC supply cut
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Iraq on average exported between 80,000 and 160,000 tonnes of fuel oil per month in 2016, data collected by Thomson Reuters Oil Research showed. But volumes sold to Asia have jumped this year, with Iraq's global exports of fuel oil reaching more than ...

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11 journalists killed in Iraq in past year: watchdog - Jakarta Post Thu, 04 May 2017 02:03:00 GMT

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11 journalists killed in Iraq in past year: watchdog
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11 journalists killed in Iraq in past year: watchdog A soldier from the 1st Battalion of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces in the role of an Islamic State militant runs through green smoke during a training exercise to prepare for the operation to re ...
US airstrike turned a home in Iraq's Mosul into a death trapABC News
Islamic State Regroups in Parts of IraqVoice of America
The Iraq Report: From Mosul gains to foreign disputesThe New Arab
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Moqtada al-Sadr: In Iraq, a fiery cleric redefines himself as nationalist patriot - Christian Science Monitor Wed, 03 May 2017 18:58:00 GMT

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Moqtada al-Sadr: In Iraq, a fiery cleric redefines himself as nationalist patriot
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May 3, 2017 Iraq—The young men storming the entrance to Baghdad's fortified Green Zone as part of an antigovernment demonstration in February were waving Iraqi flags as a sign of their commitment to country. But there was no question their loyalty was ...

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Scholarship Fund to Honor Soldier Killed by IED in Iraq - Military.com Wed, 03 May 2017 20:15:25 GMT

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Scholarship Fund to Honor Soldier Killed by IED in Iraq
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A friend of 1st Lt. Weston Lee, who himself will report to the Army this weekend, has joined with others to set up a scholarship fund in honor of the 25-year-old platoon leader from Bluffton, Georgia, who was killed by an improvised explosive device in ...

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The American Woman Inking 'Forbidden' Tattoos in Northern Iraq - Yahoo News Wed, 03 May 2017 16:02:35 GMT

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The American Woman Inking 'Forbidden' Tattoos in Northern Iraq
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ERBIL, IRAQ — Two hours away from Islamic State-controlled territory in northern Iraq, where Iraqi forces are closing in, an American woman from Texas, Shara Kenworthey, 28, sits with a needle in her front room bent over a client, tattooing his skin ...

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Middle East Ticker: Turkey Cracks Down at Home and Abroad, Iraq Caught in Middle of Syria's Proxy War, and Saudi ... - Lawfare (blog) Tue, 02 May 2017 14:41:08 GMT

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Middle East Ticker: Turkey Cracks Down at Home and Abroad, Iraq Caught in Middle of Syria's Proxy War, and Saudi ...
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Last Tuesday, Turkish planes bombed Kurdish positions in Iraq and Syria, touching off several days of cross-border clashes. Turkish officials said they were targeting groups with ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which the U.S. and Turkey ...
Kurds call on US to set up no-fly zone after Turkish attacks - Al-MonitorAl-Monitor

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