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In our news wrap Monday, President Trump charged again today that President Obama should have done more to stop Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. This comes after federal indictments for 13 Russians. Also, "Islamic State" attackers in Iraq ambushed and killed 27 Shiite-led militiamen. Iraqi officials had ...
Iraqis are returning home in greater numbers than those displaced by conflict for the first time in four years, the International Organization for Migration said Friday. Since December 2013, Iraqi forces have been battling Islamic State militants who had laid claim to parts of the country in an effort to ...
... TAMER EL-GHOBASHY: What we're seeing is that there are thousands of people - both local Iraqis and foreigners - who came to join ISIS in Iraq who are being arrested and are now coursing through the Iraqi criminal justice system. They're all being charged under the Iraqi anti-terrorism ...
... in the region, Saudi Arabia. Tillerson also suggested the PMF was an Iranian fighting force and called for the militia to disband, a demand the Iraqi government rejected, insisting PMF fighters were Iraqi nationals. Rex Tillerson: Certainly, Iranian militias that are in Iraq, now that the fight against Da'esh ...
... not happy. Reza Sayah: It was the threat of ISIS in Iraq that spawned the PMF in 2014. With most U.S. forces gone and Iraqi forces too weak to take on ISIS, the Iraqi government called on Iran for help, and Iraq's highest religious authority, Shia cleric Ayatollah ...
... re calling Iran Rising in Iraq. Special correspondent Reza Sayah and videographer Gelareh Kiazand, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, traveled throughout Iraq to examine the growing influence of its neighbor the Islamic Republic of Iran. Just how far has Iran extended its reach in Iraq? What ...
... the death toll to 530 with 7,460 injured. The quake hit at 9:18 p.m. local time about 20 miles from the eastern Iraqi city of Halabjah. It left gaping holes in mosques, sheared walls off apartment buildings and cracked parts of Iraq’s Diyala River dam. "Immediately ...
... officials and congressional leaders, Iraqi Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi is hoping the administration will deliver on pledges to counter Iran's growing influence inside Iraq and across the Middle East. Al-Nujaifi is one of Iraq's three vice presidents, and his brother heads a prominent Iraqi defense faction ...
... particularly in Europe, to halt any business they do with Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Speaking after participating in the inaugural meeting of the Saudi Arabia-Iraq Coordination Committee with Saudi King Salman and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Tillerson told reporters that an independent and prosperous Iraq would be ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: The desire of the Kurds along Iraq's northern border to govern themselves is receiving more resistance from Iraq's central government. Iraqi army forces are demanding Kurdish troops withdraw from oil fields and military bases around Kirkuk, a city in the Kurdistan region that voted for ...
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