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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: It was a deadly day in Iraq. A series of bombs ripped through Baghdad, targeting public places and killing at least 40 people. Farther north, in Irbil, a car bomb exploded outside the U.S. Consulate, killing at least three and wounding five. In Ramadi, military forces ...
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