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... JUDY WOODRUFF: This was a day of bombings and bloodshed in three major countries across the Muslim world. In Iraq, Islamic State suicide bombers killed nearly 60 people and wounded more 100 others. The attackers struck after nightfall in Diyala province, just over 30 miles northeast of Baghdad. GWEN ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: President Obama invoked the Iraq War today during a defense of the recent nuclear deal with Iran. He said those who oppose the deal are like the people who rushed the U.S. into war with Iraq. He spoke in Pittsburgh at the Veterans of Foreign Wars ...
... in effect for as long as necessary. We will have more on the fate of the Iranian nuclear deal later in the program. GWEN IFILL: Iraqi troops and Shiite militiamen began a long-awaited large-scale military assault against the Islamic State today. The operation targeted the western province of ...
... of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds, Iraq's three major ethnic groups. "As I've told Iraqi leaders, while the United States is open to supporting Iraq more than we already are, we must see a greater commitment from all parts of the Iraqi government," Carter said, adding that the Iraqi ...
... hand right now in this conflict? GEN. JOHN ALLEN: Well, I think the momentum is growing, actually, on the part of the coalition and the Iraqis. If you look at the battle space across Iraq, Tikrit was recently liberated, which is not an insignificant city, frankly. And very important activity ...
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including a defeat for President Obama from his own party on a trade deal vote, the White House announcement that the U.S. will send more military trainers to Iraq, Hillary Clinton gears up for a big...
... States already has 3,100 trainers and advisers in Iraq. On Wednesday, President Obama said he would send up to 450 more trainers to help Iraqi forces. The president said earlier in the week the United States lacks a “complete strategy” for preparing Iraqi forces to fight Islamic State militants ...
A year after Islamic State militants took control of Mosul, the number of Iraqis who have fled the besieged northern city has ballooned to more than a million people in need of basic food, water and shelter, Mercy Corps’ Iraq country director said Wednesday. “Mosul is pretty much cut off ...
... in an effort to reverse the recent gains of the Islamic State. Under the plan, the United States will open a fifth training site in Iraq, with the goal of integrating Iraqi Security Forces and Sunni fighters. The immediate objective is to retake the city of Ramadi, seized by the ...
How does Baghdad see the ongoing battle against the Islamic State? Judy Woodruff interviews Iraqi Ambassador Lukman Faily about his nation’s urgent, “existential” fight against the militant group and the role and responsibility of the United States.
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