Department of Defense | Mattis: US, Coalition 'Steadfast' With Iraq for ISIS Defeat Department of Defense Army Spc. Richard Pena, a crew chief assigned to C Troop, 4th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, Task Force Saber, conducts preflight inspections of an AH-64E Apache helicopter at Erbil, Iraq, July 11, 2017. The AH-64E Apache provides reconnaissance ... Military chief says ISIS too weak to plot terror attacks from Iraq From Kabul to Baghdad, My Bird's-Eye View Iraq captures two districts from ISIL |
wreg.com | Mattis: IS militants caught in Iraq-Syria military vise wreg.com WASHINGTON — Expelled from their main stronghold in northern Iraq, Islamic State militants are now trapped in a military vise that will squeeze them on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. Mattis arrived in the ... Mattis: ISIS is on the run Iraqi forces make gains against ISIL in Tal Afar push US defense secretary arrives in Iraq on unannounced visit to meet Iraqi leaders |
Washington Examiner | Persecuted Christians in Iraq are being forgotten Washington Examiner Although religious liberty in the United States is challenged almost daily, its authority remains real and true (at least for now). But elsewhere there is little ... |
Middle East Monitor | Iraq Must Ensure Islamic State's Victims of Sexual Violence See Justice: UN U.S. News & World Report Thousands of people, predominantly from Iraq's ethnic and religious minorities, have been subjected to sexual violence since Islamic State militants swept across vast swathes of Iraq in 2014. The report pays particular attention to members of the ... UN urges Iraq to protect children of Daesh terrorists UN: Iraq must do more for ISIS sex abuse victims UN urges justice and support for women abused by Daesh in Iraq |
TRT World | How the West whitewashes killing children in Iraq TRT World These days, when people talk about Iraq, they tend to conjure up the same mental images that have been pressed home by a careless mainstream media. Iraq is not the country of thousands of years of history, culture and civilizational progress, it is the ... |
Reliefweb | UNHCR - Protection of civilians in spotlight as fighting intensifies ... UNHCR In northern Iraq, with operations having commenced as of Sunday to retake the city of Telafar, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, remains concerned about the. Iraq: Humanitarian Snapshot (as of 30 June 2017) - Iraq | ReliefWeb |
Middle East Monitor | Mattis Asks Iraqi Kurds to Put Off Vote on Independence New York Times ERBIL, Iraq — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis asked the president of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region on Tuesday to postpone a referendum next month on Kurdish independence. Mr. Mattis's meeting with President Massoud Barzani was part of a broader ... More talks likely on Kurdish independence vote, negotiator says US backs Iraq's territorial integrity: Defense minister Despite objections Iraq's Kurds plan to hold independence referendum |
CNBC | Iraq starts offensive to take back Tal Afar from Islamic State CNBC Islamic State's self-proclaimed "caliphate" effectively collapsed last month, when U.S.-backed Iraqi forces completed the takeover of the militants' capital in Iraq, Mosul, after a nine-month campaign. But parts of Iraq and Syria remain under its ... Iraq launches operation to take back IS-held town near Mosul IS conflict: Iraq launches ground offensive in Tal Afar Iraq launches offensive to retake Tal Afar from ISIL |
In Breakaway Move From Saudis, Iraq May Change Oil Pricing OilPrice.com In a bid to increase oil revenues and possibly setting the stage for its own benchmark crude grade, Iraq has told customers it may change the way it prices Basra crude for the Asian market, Reuters reported on Monday, quoting a letter by Iraq's state ... |
Foreign Affairs | How Saudi Arabia Is Stepping Up in Iraq Foreign Affairs Some of the best news to come from the Middle East in a long time is the recent and long-overdue improvement in relations between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. It started in February, when Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir visited Baghdad—the first such ... Saudi Arabia renews Iraq ties in bid to distance Iran ANALYSIS: Is this the beginning of a new era for Iraq without Iran? 'Iran Not after Materialistic Interests in Iraq, Syria' |