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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 ...
... 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 ...
Watching TV images of Iraqi forces advancing on the ISIS-controlled city of Fallujah and U.S. airstrikes raining down from the sky is a bitter pill to swallow for many veterans of the Iraq war. In 2004, some 125 American troops, mostly Marines, lost their lives in two brutal ...
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