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... 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 ...
... Middle East. Biden slipped into Baghdad on an unannounced trip, his first to Iraq in nearly five years. Officials said the stop was planned before Iraq's political system descended into turmoil, hindering U.S.-led efforts to defeat extremists who control parts of both Iraq and Syria. Sitting down ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Defense Secretary Ash Carter pressed reluctant defense ministers from six Gulf nations Wednesday to provide more economic and political support to Iraq now to help the war-torn nation in its fight against the Islamic State Group. In a series of sessions, Carter urged the Arab countries ...
... It's the citadel of Da'esh. They're well-defended there. So, we think Apaches can make a difference. We discussed this with the Iraqi government. Everything we do in Iraq is with the consent of the Iraqi government. This is something Prime Minister Abadi wanted. And we found ...
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 ...
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