Forbes | Important Objective Measures Show That The Iraq War Was A Success Forbes As we consider further military action in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East, we cannot avoid assessing the Iraq War. The Iraq War was controversial and polarizing. Our sharply divisive debate about it can impair objective analysis. Many label the ... |
VICE | Destroying ISIS Won't Save Iraq VICE Outside an Islamic State-held village near Sinjar, Iraq, the fading dark of the pre-dawn morning throbbed with the grating sound of bulldozers pushing up mounds of earth. These barriers of dirt and rocks are meant to prevent suicide bombers from ... Civilian death toll rises to 484 from US-led coalition strikes in Iraq & Syria Iraq's Shia force enters Syrian territory despite Kurdish warnings Strikes Continue Against ISIS Targets in Syria, Iraq, June 2, 2017 |
Washington Post | The West is indifferent to Afghanistan and Iraq's world of terror Washington Post On Tuesday in Iraq, “hours after the blast, builders were working at the al-Faqma ice-cream parlor, plastering over cracks and repainting walls,” noted an editorial in Britain's Guardian newspaper. “By evening the streets and restaurants were full ... |
Bloomberg | Iraq's Crude Exports Hit 2017 High Before OPEC Cuts Extension Bloomberg Oil tankers shipped the most crude from Iraq in six months in May, when OPEC's second-biggest producer was negotiating with the group's other members to persist with supply constraints to shore up the global market. Tankers loaded 122 million barrels ... Iraq Exporting More Oil Now Than Before Production Cut Agreement |
Center for Research on Globalization | Video: Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) Prepare for Further Advances against ISIS Center for Research on Globalization The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have repelled a large ISIS attack in western Nineveh near the Iraqi-Syrian border. On Monday, the PMU reached the border with Syria and started digging trenches and preparing positions in order to secure the ... |
Military Times | In Iraq, ISIS seals off area around symbolic mosque in Mosul Military Times Meanwhile on Thursday, the U.N. special mission to Iraq said violence killed at least 354 civilians and wounded 470 others in Iraq last month. Of those, there were 160 civilians killed and 52 wounded in Nineveh province, where Mosul is provincial capital. Mosul battle: At least 142 civilians killed in six days France is 'hunting down its citizens who joined Isis' without trial in Iraq Iraq paramilitaries reach border with Syria |
Aljazeera.com | Ex-captive of ISIL sheds tears on return to Iraq | ISIS News | Al Jazeera Aljazeera.com An emotional homecoming for Nadia Murad, a Yazidi survivor captured by ISIL and sold as a slave in northern Iraq. Former ISIS sex slave reunited with brother during emotional return to Iraq home Hope they kill us, not rape: Former IS sex slave's sombre return to Iraq village UN ambassador Nadia Murad makes emotional return to her village |
Task & Purpose | How Many Air Force Bombs Dropped On ISIS In Iraq And Syria Were 'Duds'? Task & Purpose In the three years since President Barack Obama first declared war on ISIS, the U.S-led multinational coalition has dropped tens of thousands of bombs on enemy targets across Iraq and Syria as part of Operation Inherent Resolve. But for several months ... |
NBCNews.com | Iraq's National Soccer Team Aims to Prove to ISIS 'That Nothing Can ... NBCNews.com BAGHDAD — Iraq's national soccer team played its first game on home soil in years on Thursday, beating Jordan 1-0 in Basra, a city that suffered some of the ... |
UN News Centre | Iraq: UN refugee agency sounds alarm for more support as fighting continues in Mosul UN News Centre According to Iraqi authorities, more than 750,000 have been forced to flee since military operations to retake the city from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) fighters. “A shortage of funds threatens to undermine our humanitarian ... UNHCR warns that aid response for families fleeing Mosul critically underfunded |