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... 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 ...
... Iraqi military has basically a shortage of labor. And the one good fighting force that's there, that's effective from the state, is the Iraqi Special Forces. And according to U.S. officers, those forces are in real danger of burning out because they are the only force the ...
... sure you had political support from our Iraqi allies, or more willing to stick with the operation if you lost it.'” Some, though not all Iraqi veterans, also blame the need to return on President Obama’s decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011. Nagl called ...
... government. LISA DESJARDINS: Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi, who has sort of helped put this coalition together, said on national TV this week that Iraqi national forces were approaching a moment of great victory. How important is this fight in Fallujah for his seemingly fragile Iraqi government? MISSY RYAN ...
... and nearly a hundred injured Friday after thousands of demonstrators, who are reportedly followers of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, breached the fortified section of Iraq's capital city. The protest was over the country's lack of security and the government's failure to pass anti-corruption laws. Iraqi ...
... open the possibility that Iraqi army units are pulled from the front line fighting ISIS to help secure the capital. Any such move could undercut Iraq's ability to fight ISIS in the north, especially as the Iraqi military pursues its new offensive to retake Mosul, the nation's second ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: There were more details today about the death of Navy SEAL Charles Keating in a firefight yesterday with ISIS militants in Northern Iraq. The U.S. has moved in more troops and materiel recently to support Iraqi military efforts against the group. At the same time, there ...
... session Carter led in Brussels in mid-February. The peshmerga are Kurdish militia whom have generally fought more effectively against the Islamic State in northern Iraq than the regular Iraqi security forces. The U.S. has been training, equipping and advising pershmerga forces as well as Iraqi security forces, and ...
... near Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, which has been in the hands of IS militants since they overran large swaths of northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014. The U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, said only that a coalition service member was killed "in northern Iraq ...
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