A federal judge ruled on Friday that the government must release photographs that depict abuse of detainees by American military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. "The photos are crucial to the public record," American Civil Liberties Union Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said in a statement. "They're the best ...
... to help protect cities. It’s just a different mission this time. It is. MARTIN HIMEL: Perhaps his greatest goal is to protect Christianity in Iraq. Brett is a religious Catholic. Last August, the 28-year-old interrupted his studies and traveled to northern Iraq where he joined the Assyrian ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR ANCHOR: This week could be a turning point in Iraq's fight against ISIS militants. Shia militia members have joined Iraqi forces to take back Tikrit. If they succeed, it would be the first time pro-government forces beat back ISIS to recover a major Iraqi ...
... GWEN IFILL: In Iraq, there was more heavy fighting in Tikrit today, as Iraqi forces and militias moved in on the Islamic State group. Elsewhere, the Iraqi military reports that several Iraqi soldiers were killed in a friendly-fire incident involving an aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: Iraqi forces have been making significant headway against ISIS in the last few days, pushing extremist fighters back out of some of the territory they seized last year. Anne Barnard has been reporting for The New York Times on the fighting and the rising political tension. She ...
... The biggest offensive yet to push back Islamic State militants is raging around Tikrit, the birthplace of Saddam Hussein, 110 miles north of Baghdad. As Iraqi forces draw closer to the city, they're helped not by the U.S., but by Iraqi Shiite militias with Iranian backing. Militia forces ...
... cultural cleansing” that amounted to a “war crime.” It was the militant group’s latest assault on the ancient heritage of their conquered territories in Iraq and Syria, after smashing thousands of statues and torching the library in Mosul last month. The Iraqi Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...
... GWEN IFILL: Iraqi security forces have launched a new offensive against Tikrit, now held by Islamic State fighters. It's their latest attempt to reclaim Saddam Hussein's hometown, before they try to retake Mosul to the north. Ground troops opened the assault on Tikrit with a rocket and ...
... terrorists are trying to destroy the heritage of mankind and Iraq's civilization," said Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in Baghdad. "We will chase them in order to make them pay for every drop of blood shed in Iraq and for the destruction of Iraq's civilization.'' Follow @NewsHourWorld//
... Iraq last summer, the group has laid waste to libraries, temples and shrines. And the region now under its control contains nearly 1,800 of Iraq's 12,000 registered archaeological sites. In Paris today, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova called this newest act in Mosul a -- quote -- "war crime ...
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