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... the Islamic State group. In a statement, White House officials said the vice president's phone call -- quote -- "recognized the enormous sacrifice and bravery of Iraqi forces." That came after Defense Secretary Ash Carter had blamed the loss of Ramadi on Iraqi troops who ran away. ASHTON CARTER, Secretary of ...
... the Iraqi troops ran away, that they didn't have the will to fight. But then you had today the vice president, Biden, calling the Iraqi prime minister to say, no, Iraqi troops are doing a great job. Which is it? DOUGLAS OLLIVANT: Well, and just a few weeks ago ...
... Ramadi in central Iraq a week ago, which has revived concerns about U.S. efforts to fight the group. The Obama administration's approach in Iraq is a blend of retraining and rebuilding the Iraqi army, prodding the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad to reconcile with the nation's Sunnis ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Returning to Iraq and Syria and ISIS gains in the region, I’m joined now from Baghdad via Skype, Washington Post reporter Loveday Morris. So, let’s start in Palmyra. It gets a lot of press because it’s a U.N. World ...
... GWEN IFILL: But the seizure of Palmyra does mean that ISIS now controls even more Syrian territory. And hundreds of miles to the east, in Iraq, the militants today followed up their capture of Ramadi by overrunning Iraqi military positions east of the city. The group also scored gains in ...
... the same fate as Tikrit. It will be liberated from the grasp of the extremist terrorists and victory in the end will be for the Iraqi people and the Iraqi state. GWEN IFILL: And Iran's defense minister flew to Baghdad for talks with the Iraqi army chief of staff ...
... major Iraqi city in the hands of Islamic State. It already controls Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. And now Ramadi is the capital of Iraq's largest province. It's also a huge setback for the government campaign launched last month to reclaim Anbar province, which is really Iraq ...
... he finished withdrawing U.S. troops in December 2011, Obama predicted a stable, self-reliant Iraqi government would take hold. Instead, turmoil and terrorism overtook Iraq and American leaders and would-be presidents are struggling with what to do next. The U.S. now has 3,040 troops in Iraq ...
... did bluntly challenge their preconceptions about the political aspects of the military task they faced, trying to resolve the civil and ethnic strife into which Iraq had descended. Yet she insists, “when you look at Iraq, there were many amazing women.” Above all, she notes the Iraqi civilian women who ...
... a local Washington bookstore. MARGARET WARNER: Emma Sky, welcome. Thank you for join us. EMMA SKY, Author, "The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq": Thank you. MARGARET WARNER: You opposed the Iraq war from the start. What drove you then to volunteer to go to help rebuild the ...
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