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... 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 ...
... s Friday. Mark Shields and David Brooks analyze a full week of news. All that and more on tonight's "PBS NewsHour." (BREAK) JUDY WOODRUFF: Iraqi special forces pushed into the heart of Fallujah today, for the first time since Islamic State fighters seized it in early 2014. The breakthrough ...
It was August 2004, and the Iraq war was about a year old. Fighting was intense in Sadr City, a suburb of Baghdad, where Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia was battling the U.S. military occupation. NPR photojournalist David Gilkey was embedded with the troops. Some of his ...
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