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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is awarding the nation's highest military honor to an Iraq veteran who cleared an insurgent strongpoint and allowed members of his platoon to move to safety. The president is presenting the Medal of Honor to former Army Staff Sgt. David G. Bellavia of Lyndonville ...
... and military moves today. They follow Washington's warnings of unspecified threats by Iran. Today, the State Department ordered nonessential government staff out of neighboring Iraq. Germany and the Netherlands also stopped military training missions in Iraq. But, in Berlin, German officials issued a veiled warning about intensifying U.S ...
... the U.S.-backed coalition fighting the Islamic State group. He said Tuesday that "there's been no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Syria." Later, in a rare public rebuttal of an allied military officer, U.S. Central Command said Ghika's remarks "run counter to ...
... would make the point in his meetings in Baghdad that any attack by Iran or its proxies on American forces in Iraq would affect the Iraqi government too. The "campaign to continue to prevent ISIS terror inside of Iraq itself is something that's very central ... to the Iraqi government ...
... Vietnam and war in Afghanistan, including two posthumous honors. Wednesday's award will be the first Trump gives to a service member who fought in Iraq. Presidents often get credit for putting the medal and its familiar blue ribbon on living recipients, but they have little say in who ultimately ...
In our news wrap Thursday, at least 94 people died after an overcrowded ferry sank in northern Iraq. Passengers were celebrating Kurdish holidays when the vessel capsized in the Tigris River near Mosul, where heavy rains and snowmelt fed a strong current. Also, the government of New Zealand banned sales of military-style semi-automatic guns and...
... he jumped in the water and managed to save a 20-year-old girl. "I cannot describe the scene, it's a catastrophe," he said. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi ordered an investigation and, according to Iraqi TV, arrived in Mosul later Thursday. The TV said nine workers operating ...
... and Iraq’s Shiite led-government, a strong Tehran ally. It is also Iran’s response to President Donald Trump’s snap December trip to Iraq and the American president’s comments that U.S. forces should stay in Iraq to keep an eye on neighboring Iran, with which Iraq ...
... River, signaling an imminent end to the territorial rule of the militants self-declared "caliphate" that once stretched across a third of both Syria and Iraq. Some 300 IS militants, along with hundreds of civilians believed to be mostly their families, have been under siege for more than a week ...
... s Iraq Initiative and recently met with President Salih. Kadhim says, thanks to President Trump's statement, Iran's powerful allies can now use the Iraqi constitution to argue against a U.S. presence, because it requires Iraq to adhere to the principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of ...
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