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Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Sunday following a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital, Turkey's defense ministry announced.
... in every sense of the word." The number of Christians in Iraq today is estimated at 150,000, compared to 1.5 million in 2003. Iraq's total population is more than 40 million. Over the past two decades, Iraq's Christian minority has been violently targeted by extremists first ...
... represents the district I live in California, and Senators Menendez and Booker, in which they ask the State Department to do more to get the Iraqi government to intervene and do more to free my sister. But it seems that, so far, everyone is passing the buck. Everyone wants to ...
... Quran burning. Another day of protests saw thousands of demonstrators on the streets in the country. Protesters then, as well as early Thursday, called on Iraqi officials to expel Sweden's ambassador to Iraq. WATCH: Iraq’s younger generations feel shut out of the economy and political process Al-Sadr ...
... get better.Simona Foltyn: From Shia to Sunni to Kurdish areas of the country, much of the post-2003 generation feels Iraq's elites have failed them, eroding the legitimacy of the political system that the United States helped install. For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Simona Foltyn in Iraq.
WATCH: What it means to be Iraqi, 20 years after the U.S. invasion However, a statement from the Iraqi Kurdish regional government appeared to blame local authorities in Suleimaniyah, which it accused of provoking an “attack” on the airport and using “government institutions” for "illegal activities.” The regional government ...
... journalists, also with the legacy of that war.Nick Schifrin: And, Salwan, you get the last word on that legacy. What is the legacy for Iraqis of a war whose very premise was disproven? Salwan Georges: That's a hard one. The legacy have really changed the life of Iraqis ...
... the region. Do you sometimes feel that Iraq is caught in the middle and that its interests are drowned out by geopolitical conflict? Barham Salih: Iraq -- Iraq is definitely caught in the middle. Iraq is very much a key area for regional balances and dynamics, has always been, will always ...
Can you ski without risk? Actress: I always land on my feet. Jeffrey Brown: Iraq, she says, could be a bellwether for the U.S. Heather Raffo: Everything bounces back, the market, the weather. It will all bounce back. Jeffrey Brown: Unless we address where we are 20 years later ...
... Vali Nasr: It's important to think about the fact that, had this war as Ambassador Wolfowitz suggested, been conducted differently after we entered into Iraq, had we left a different legacy there, the question of the reasons we went in would not loom as large as they do right ...
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