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... HARI SREENIVASAN: More than a year ago, the desperate plight of Iraq`s Yazidi religious minority stranded on Sinjar Mountain helped draw the United States into the war against ISIS in Iraq. The militants are believed to have killed hundreds of civilians from Sinjar and surrounding areas. Is also ...
... GWEN IFILL: A new front opened today in the war with no apparent end in sight. Kurdish forces in Iraq, with U.S. support, launched an assault on a key city that links Islamic State holdings in two countries. American airstrikes hammered Sinjar on Iraq's far northwestern border ...
... Peter Cook provided the following statement: Early today in Iraq, at the request of the Kurdistan Regional Government, U.S. Special Operations Forces supported an Iraqi Peshmerga operation to rescue hostages at an ISIL prison near Hawijah, Iraq. This operation was deliberately planned and launched after receiving information that the ...
... there. We need, like, a common platform, where there should be no conflict. We have to deconflict any misunderstanding between the countries which are helping Iraq inside Iraq. MARGARET WARNER: Another thing, of course, that happened over the last few days was news that Iraq had entered an intelligence pact ...
Video by PBS NewsHour Russia's President Vladimir Putin said he ordered airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday to fight Islamic State militants, a move that Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said he would welcome in Iraq, if needed. The prime minister, in an interview with PBS NewsHour's Margaret ...
... rally in nearly seven years. U.S. oil prices rose by nearly $4 a barrel, more than 10 percent, to $42.56. GWEN IFILL: In Iraq today, an Islamic State militant killed two generals and three soldiers in a suicide bombing. A vehicle filled with explosives hit the troops as ...
... 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 ...
WASHINGTON — The effort to train Iraqi forces to fight Islamic State militants has been slowed by a lack of recruits and the U.S. will not meet its goal to train 24,000 by this fall, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday. Carter told the House Armed Services Committee that ...
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