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As the battle for Mosul continues, Iraqi civilians are fleeing to camps where security concerns are ripping families apart. Iraqi security forces and Kurdish authorities have a mandate to keep members of ISIS from escaping, so men and boys are routinely taken for investigation, leaving their families to worry about when, and if, they’ll return....
... CHRISTOPHER LIVESAY: Iraq’s Nineveh Plains lie between the Kurdish north and the Arab south. The area is home to a variety of ethnic minorities, including a group of people known as Assyrians. They are descendants of the world’s first Christians, whose presence here dates back to the ...
... against Daesh, to provide advice and assistance to the Iraqi military, airstrikes in coordination with the Iraqi military, and a significant amount of training for Iraqi security forces. STEWART: Should ISIS be expunged from Mosul, what is being done to scaffold the Iraqi government and institution so that it can ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: But first: It's been more than five weeks since Iraqi forces, backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition, began the campaign to retake Mosul from ISIS. The city is the largest in either Iraq or Syria still held by the militants, and the fight ...
... had over two years to plan for it, and they’re bomb experts,” said NewsHour special correspondent Jane Ferguson by phone from Erbil in northern Iraq. It not only sows terror but is meant to slow the advancing troops, said Ferguson. She spoke with an Iraqi soldier who lost his ...
... ALISON STEWART, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Iraq's government says its security forces, with U.S. support, reclaimed two more districts in Mosul today from ISIS militants. This footage released today by the Iraqi defense ministry shows helicopter attacks on ISIS positions to dislodge militants who have occupied Iraq ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news: Iraqi troops fought their way inside the city limits of Mosul, two weeks after their offensive began. They advanced after seizing the last village held by Islamic State fighters on the city's eastern edge. Special forces are using armored vehicles ...
Explosions in Iraq’s capital on Sunday killed at least 17 people and was possibly one of many retaliatory efforts to come in the country’s attempt to reclaim the city of Mosul from the Islamic State, according to news reports. The blasts mainly targeted neighborhoods in Baghdad that are ...
... the northern city. "I know that the Turks want to participate, we tell them thank you, this is something the Iraqis will handle and the Iraqis will liberate Mosul and the rest of the territories," Haider al-Abadi said through a translator after meeting with the Pentagon chief. Iraqi, Kurdish ...
... important to respect Iraqi sovereignty. But he stopped short of saying that he will press the Turks to remove any forces that are operating in Iraq without Baghdad's invitation. Carter's expected meetings in Ankara with top leaders and defense officials come amid escalating tensions between Turkey and Iraq ...
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