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... JUDY WOODRUFF: The battle for Mosul is the most important of the two-year campaign against ISIS in Iraq, and a defeat there would be a crippling setback for the extremists. We turn now to a man with detailed knowledge of the city and its ethnic and sectarian crosscurrents ...
As the campaign to free Iraq’s second largest city from Islamic State militants enters its fourth day, aid groups are rushing to prepare camps for the residents fleeing the fight. The Islamic State group took over the northern city of Mosul two years ago, and about 1 million residents ...
... city. The general estimated up to 6,000 Islamic State fighters remain in Mosul, putting up fierce resistance. Coalition airstrikes blasted ISIS positions today, as Iraqi and Kurdish ground forces kept pushing closer. LT. GEN. TALIB SHAGHATI, Iraqi Army (through translator): From this place, I appeal to all local fighters ...
... comparison, the U.S. has about 300 troops -- mostly special forces -- now in Syria acting as advisers, according to the Associated Press. The troops in Iraq will help with logistics and maintenance, in addition to training and advising Iraqi security forces and Kurdish Peshmerga, but they won’t be doing ...
WASHINGTON — Law enforcement and intelligence agencies remain extremely concerned that violent militants will eventually flow out of Syria and Iraq and into other countries in hopes of committing attacks, FBI Director James Comey told Congress on Tuesday. The number of Americans traveling to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State ...
... GWEN IFILL: Cataloging the atrocities committed by the so-called Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq is a difficult, sometimes impossible task. A new report from the Associated Press attempts to document the mass graves holding some of the group's victims. The AP found 72 mass gravesites ...
... Taqaddum, a staging base for the battles in Ramadi and Fallujah. Iraqi forces recently retook both cities. American advisers are working at brigade level with Iraqi special operations forces, but haven't accompanied them on operations. Obama in April allowed U.S. troops to assist Iraqi forces at brigade and ...
... or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton, ever. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) JUDY WOODRUFF: Republican Donald Trump also campaigns in North Carolina tonight. Iraqi search teams recovered more bodies in Baghdad today, and the death toll from Sunday's bombing soared to 250. Distraught family members held funeral ...
... Fund (UNICEF). Based on the analysis, the number of children at risk has increased by 1.3 million in the last 18 months. “Children in Iraq are in the firing line and are being repeatedly and relentlessly targeted,” Peter Hawkins, UNICEF Iraq Representative, said in a statement. “We appeal to ...
... a different case. Fallujah had up to 100,000 people in it. And it was where ISIS first came into, where they tried to persuade Iraqis that they were a better alternative than the Iraqi government. They didn't lay the land mines, they didn't lay the improvised explosives ...
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