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... 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 ...
... Iraq's present is really very grim. You have got Islamic State controlling a third of the country. For all of us who served in Iraq year after year after year, it's really hard. And I think the only way is to maintain hope, is to look at Iraq ...
... the best mechanism in the world." When the I.S. group, known here as Da'esh, took over Mosul last year, entire divisions of the Iraqi army collapsed. The Iraqi government turned to Iran and Iraqi citizens for help. There are at least four other training centers like this in ...
... work with the Islamic State group. COL. DEREK HARVEY: Well, it looks like he began to work with the Islamic State and al-Qaida in Iraq more aggressively in about 2012. But Izzat al-Douri and his folks have been working with al-Qaida in Iraq from the very beginning ...
... the city’s provincial governor told the Associated Press on Friday. Al-Douri was reported captured and killed several times before, but this time the Iraqi government showed graphic photos of the corpse. The distinguishing characteristic of his mustache could be seen in the photos. Iraqi intelligence sources told the ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's visit to the U.S. came as the battle against the Islamic State appears to be making some headway. But many Iraqi-Americans are still wary of the chaos that's unfolded in the last year at the hands ...
... the guards should be executed. "I think that more people should stand trial and be punished, including Blackwater executives who kept defending the criminals and Iraqi security officials who allowed this company to work in Iraq." Defense lawyers argued for mercy, saying decades-long sentences would be unconstitutionally harsh for ...
... in," Earnest told reporters Monday. "And our success in working with an inclusive Iraqi government has been important to some of the security gains that Iraq has realized against ISIL in the last few months." Earlier this month, Iraqi forces and allied Shiite militias, backed by U.S. airstrikes, were ...
... GWEN IFILL: Over the last two days, U.S. warplanes conducted more than a dozen strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq. On the ground, Iraqi forces launched a counterattack against the group's strongholds in Anbar province. While the fight rages, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi heads ...
WASHINGTON — A federal judge sentenced former Blackwater security guard Nicholas Slatten to life in prison and three others to 30-year terms for their roles in a 2007 shooting that killed 14 Iraqi civilians and wounded 17 others. The carnage in Baghdad's Nisoor Square caused an international uproar over ...
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