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... send troops back to Iraq. The move was made in response to the Islamic State group’s takeover of large portions of western and northern Iraq and a collapse of Iraqi security forces that appeared to threaten Baghdad. Obama had fully withdrawn U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011, eight ...
... the Iranian-backed militias that make up the bulk of Iraq's state-supported Popular Mobilization Forces. The Biden administration has responded by twice targeting Iraqi militia groups operating inside Syria, including one close to the Iraq border. The relationship has been complicated since last year's U.S. drone ...
A fire swept through a COVID hospital ward in southern Iraq overnight, killing at least 92 and injuring more than 100. Nick Schifrin reports. ... Judy Woodruff: A fire swept through a COVID hospital ward in Iraq overnight. The state news agency says 92 people were killed in Nasiriyah, with more ...
... lax safety at Iraq's hospitals, especially around oxygen cylinders, and have described the institutions as ticking bombs. Mac Skelton, a medical sociologist focused on Iraq, said chaos and neglect in Iraq's public hospitals since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 have given rise to "toxic" distrust between ...
With the final military withdrawal from Afghanistan underway, a few state legislators in the U.S. are reconsidering the use of their National Guard units for undeclared foreign wars, like the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly half of the troops deployed to both countries over the past 20 years were from the National Guard and...
... mass anti-government demonstrations across Iraq in 2019. Iran cut crucial electricity exports to Iraq this week, which can amount to nearly a third of Iraq's supply in the peak summer months. Iraq's Electricity Minister Majed Hantoush also recently resigned, citing political and popular pressure.Iraq is capable ...
... And he propagated the now-debunked argument that Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction. Question: What do you make of the statement made by Iraqi government, statement by the Iraqi government yesterday that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction and is not developing them? Donald Rumsfeld: They are ...
In our news wrap Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended U.S. airstrikes on Iranian-backed militia groups in Syria and Iraq. President Joe Biden welcomed outgoing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to the White House. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a dispute over banning transgender students from using school restrooms that reflect their gender...
... by the Islamic State group and denied the presence of weapons warehouses. Iraq's military condemned the strikes as a "blatant and unacceptable violation of Iraqi sovereignty and national security." It called for avoiding escalation, but also rejected that Iraq be an "arena for settling accounts" — a reference to the ...
... the Iraqis want, certainly not the Iraqis who work with us on a day to day basis. There’s certainly I think a portion of Iraqis who do want that, and that’s the problem.Leila Molana-Allen: Amid the global power-play, the fragile increase in security Iraqis currently ...
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