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... 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 ...
Brian Williams, long-time anchor of NBC Nightly News, recanted on Wednesday a 12-year-old story that he was aboard a helicopter that was shot down by enemy fire during the Iraq War invasion in 2003. "I would not have chosen to make this mistake," Williams told Stars and ...
... in a way that I think does a profound disservice to the men who died over there, supposedly defending our freedom, as well as the Iraqi civilians, tens, if not hundreds of thousands, who died as consequences. The film presents the Iraq War as a natural outgrowth of the attack ...
... sectarian violence, and corruption, the country also endured the rapid rise and terrifying takeover of radical extremists across the North. We recently talked to three Iraqis living in America about these events. They spoke of their childhoods in Iraq, the U.S. invasion and its aftermath, the sectarian fighting that ...
... remember that again and again, we've been told it's going to take two to three years to create an effective combination of Kurdish, Iraqi, and Sunni Iraqi forces that could actually liberate the parts of Iraq occupied by the Islamic State. This is not a decisive victory. The ...
... Mosul. He said that while there has been progress in halting the militants' charge across Iraq, "I think what we must do, especially inside of Iraq, is continue to build those (Iraqi) capabilities. I think you're at least talking a minimum of three years." The Iraqi army wants to ...
... fighters, Iraqi government forces and Shiite militias battle to roll back Islamic State gains. The militants moved into Northern and Western Iraq in June, sending Iraqi troops fleeing. In August, U.S. warplanes joined the fray, targeting Islamic State units. Yesterday, on a visit by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Iraq ...
... Iraqis with pushing back the Islamic State. With coaching from these outside powers and, of course, with U.S. air power in support, both the Iraqi army and the Kurdish Peshmerga, both of which did not look very good -- let's face it -- in the initial push of the Islamic ...
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