BAGHDAD -- The U.S. has agreed to deploy more than 200 additional troops to Iraq and to send eight Apache helicopters for the first time into the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the first major increase in U.S. forces in nearly a year, U.S. defense ...
... ZACHARY GREEN: On a typical morning on Iraq’s Mount Sinjar, Mata Mahmoud and his companions are hard at work...looking for truffles. Mahmoud and his friends are ethnic Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq who have been persecuted by Islamic State militants, who overran this region in 2014 ...
... American troops cannot just leave. There are 9,800 U.S. forces in Afghanistan, set to drop in principle to 5,500 next year. In Iraq, there are 3,780 now. Obama has less than 10 months to leave both places in better shape, but the strategies differ: In Iraq ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Violence in Iraq killed more than 1,000 people this past month, more than half of whom were civilians, according to the United Nations. This rise in casualties resulted in part from terrorist attacks in the Baghdad area carried out by the Islamic ...
... last two years. Now some are standing their ground to fight back. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson reports from Irbil and the Nineveh Plain in Northern Iraq. JANE FERGUSON: Iraqi Christians celebrate Easter's Holy Week, a time of rebirth, hope, salvation. But many here see little hope in their ancestral ...
... the dead. The attack comes as the United States this week announced the targeted killing of a top leader of the Islamic State and as Iraqi forces have regained territory against the militant organization, including parts of the western Iraqi province of Anbar . The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki ...
... support. Capturing Palmyra could open much of Eastern Syria to government forces, but large parts of the town remain under the militants' control. Meanwhile, in Iraq a suicide bomber killed 29 people at a soccer match south of Baghdad. At least 60 others were wounded. There was no immediate claim ...
... several names, including Abdul-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli and Haji Imam, was a "well-known terrorist" who had a hand in terrorist plots outside of Iraq and Syria. He said al-Qaduli has been associated with IS dating back to its earliest iteration as al-Qaida in Iraq. He said ...
... has been based on the USS Kearsarge, an amphibious assault ship that has been deployed in the region. Their movement into Iraq comes as the Iraqi forces formally begin their push to retake Mosul. Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, spokesman for Iraq's Joint Military Command, announced Thursday that the Iraqi ...
Iraqi armed forces have started an operation to retake the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, who have held the beleaguered city for nearly two years. “The first phase of the Fatah (Conquest) Operation has been launched at dawn to liberate Nineveh, raising the Iraqi flag in several ...
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