NBCNews.com | Ex-Blackwater Guard's Conviction in Iraq Massacre Overturned, Appeals Court Rules NBCNews.com Nicolas Slatten, 33, was convicted in April 2015 of first-degree murder by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., but now gets a retrial in the case. Three former guards with the private military company who were found guilty in the same incident — each ... Blackwater guard gets murder conviction tossed in Iraq massacre Murder conviction in Blackwater Iraq shooting case thrown out In Blackwater Case, Court Rejects a Murder Conviction and Voids 3 Sentences |
RT | US-led Coalition says 624 civilian casualties from airstrikes in Iraq, Syria RT The international forces said they “carried over 180 open reports of possible civilian casualties from previous months and received 72 new reports resulting from Coalition airstrikes in support of partner forces operations to defeat ISIS (Islamic State ... Coalition says killed 624 civilians “unintentionally” in Iraq, Syria ISIS is Fighting For Survival After Losing Major Parts of Iraq And Syria, Claims US US Coalition Updates Number of Civilians Killed in Strikes in Iraq, Syria to 624 |
NATO HQ (press release) | NATO helps Iraq boost civil-military cooperation in dealing with terrorist challenges NATO HQ (press release) It was aimed at bolstering civil-military cooperation in dealing with terrorism and crisis management. As one of the participants from the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service underlined, “What Iraq needs most is trust. Today we set another step in that ... |
TRT World | Mass grave discovered in former Daesh-held city in Iraq TRT World It is the latest of dozens of such grisly finds made by Iraqi forces since they drove the extremists out of the swathes of northern and western Iraq that they had occupied in 2014. Ammar Nuri al Dulaimi, an official from a Martyrs Committee for Anbar ... Mass grave of 40 found south of Ramadi: official |
Aljazeera.com | The US Must Act On The Genocide Of Iraq's Christians The Daily Caller Three years ago this week, disturbing images of women and children fleeing the Islamic State in northern Iraq shocked the world. During the siege of Mt. Sinjar, reports emerged of ISIS militants ruthlessly massacring Yazidi men and kidnapping and ... UN: Yazidi genocide in Iraq still ongoing, unaddressed Islamic State Still Committing Genocide Against Iraq's Yazidis, UN Says Yazidis gather in Lincoln to remember attacks in Iraq |
Wall Street Journal (subscription) | Court Overturns Sentences of Blackwater Guards in 2007 Iraq Shooting Wall Street Journal (subscription) A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday overturned lengthy sentences imposed on three former Blackwater USA private security guards for the 2007 shooting deaths of 14 Iraqis in Baghdad, and granted a new trial for another. The ruling was the ... |
New York Post | Samantha Bee finds Trump supporters in Iraq New York Post When comedian Samantha Bee traveled to northern Iraq, she was stunned to find Kurds, who are Muslim, who love Trump so much, one couple even named their son after the U.S. president. “This is my son, Trump. I've called him Trump since the day he was ... Samantha Bee Goes to Iraq, Finds Trump Fanatics - The Daily Beast First (And Probably Last Ever) Trump-Positive Field Piece | August 2, 2017 Act 3 | TBS Kris Kobach's Racist Music Man | August 2, 2017 Act 2 | Full Frontal on TBS |
ReliefWeb | Iraq Situation: UNHCR Flash Update - 3 August 2017 ReliefWeb According to the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), nearly 250 civilians were killed in Iraq in July, a drop in casualty figures from June, with the conclusion of major operations in Mosul. In June, 415 civilians were killed and 300 ... |
Rudaw | Mobile payment system in Iraq aims to help 12000 farmers return Rudaw ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Short message service (SMS) technology will allow thousands of rural farmers to be paid electronically and return to their agrarian livelihoods in areas of northern Iraq recently liberated from ISIS and in the Kurdistan Region. |
Catholic Herald Online | Knights to send $2 million to restore Christian town in Iraq Catholic Herald Online In 2014, the Islamic State removed hundreds of families of religious minorities from their homes in Karamdes, a mostly Christian town on the Ninevah Plain in Iraq. Just over two years later, the town, also known as Karemlash, was liberated. The Knights ... |