• News Wrap: Former security guards convicted of shooting Iraqis in 2011

    News Wrap: Former security guards convicted of shooting Iraqis in 2011

    Oct 23, 2014 12:57 AM EDT

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: In other news of this day, a federal jury convicted four former security guards today of shooting more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad in 2007; 14 of the victims died.  The guards, all of them American, worked for the former Blackwater security firm protecting U.S. diplomats ...

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    Blackwater guards found guilty in Iraq shootings

    Oct 22, 2014 04:36 PM EDT

    ... deep hostility toward Iraqi civilians. The guards, the prosecution said, held "a grave indifference" to the death and injury that their actions probably would cause Iraqis. Several former Blackwater guards testified that they had been generally distrustful of Iraqis, based on experience the guards said they had had in being ...

  • A step forward in ISIS fight? Iraq lawmakers approve Sunni, Shiite ministers

    A step forward in ISIS fight? Iraq lawmakers approve Sunni, Shiite ministers

    Oct 18, 2014 10:40 PM EDT

    ... minister of defense and minister of interior, we have yet another step to go forward on really coordinating the response to the Islamic State in Iraq. HARI SREENIVASAN: OK.  Well, we've been talking a lot about ISIS in the context of Syria and Iraq.  It seems that Lebanon is ...

  • News Wrap: Iraqi PM urges Sunni tribal leaders to defend Ramadi from Islamic State

    News Wrap: Iraqi PM urges Sunni tribal leaders to defend Ramadi from Islamic State

    Oct 17, 2014 11:30 PM EDT

    ... 1,886. For the week, the Dow and S&P still lost 1 percent and the Nasdaq fell about 0.5 percent. Government forces in Iraq have launched new operations against Islamic State fighters. The troops, aided by coalition airstrikes, aim to retake areas around Tikrit and Baiji, home to ...

  • Uncovering secret chemical weapon victims of the Iraq war

    Uncovering secret chemical weapon victims of the Iraq war

    Oct 16, 2014 01:02 AM EDT

    ... hasn't been a comprehensive tracking. JUDY WOODRUFF: And last thing, do we know what's happened, how many more weapons may still be in Iraq and who has control over them? C.J. CHIVERS: I don't know how many are still there. There are some reports that there ...

  • On Baghdad’s doorstep: Islamic State militants gain ground in Iraq

    On Baghdad’s doorstep: Islamic State militants gain ground in Iraq

    Oct 14, 2014 11:59 PM EDT

    ... a Sunni neighborhood. So all of that has been here and continues to be, even though there has been U.S.  airstrikes. And that leaves Iraqis feeling frustrated, worried about the future and genuinely scared. But it isn't because suddenly the Islamic State is at the doorstep. They have ...

  • 2 out of 3 Americans support U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, Syria

    2 out of 3 Americans support U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, Syria

    Oct 03, 2014 02:34 PM EDT

    ... And despite more than a decade of costly war, about a third favor going beyond airstrikes and putting American military boots on the ground in Iraq or Syria. Obama says he has no plans to send ground troops to Iraq or Syria. A little more than a third say they ...

  • Turkey votes to join foreign military operations in Iraq, Syria

    Turkey votes to join foreign military operations in Iraq, Syria

    Oct 02, 2014 05:13 PM EDT

    UPDATED 1:13 p.m. EDT | Turkey's parliament voted todayto allow its military forces to enter the fray against the Islamic State group. The government submitted a proposal to the parliament Wednesday, seeking approval to expand government authority to deploy troops into both Syria and Iraq. If approved, the ...

  • Obama administration eases policy on preventing civilian casualties in Iraq, Syria

    Obama administration eases policy on preventing civilian casualties in Iraq, Syria

    Oct 01, 2014 08:58 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced in May 2013 that no lethal strike against a terrorist would be authorized without "near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured." But amid unconfirmed reports of civilian casualties, the White House said this week that U.S. bombing in Iraq and Syria ...

  • News Wrap: UK will join airstrikes on Islamic State in Iraq, not Syria

    News Wrap: UK will join airstrikes on Islamic State in Iraq, not Syria

    Sep 27, 2014 12:53 AM EDT

    ... Ed Miliband, though, said he worried that while the Iraq army would try to occupy the vacuum left after attacks on Islamic State forces in Iraq, in Syria, no one knew who would benefit. ED MILIBAND: And in the case of Iraq, it is the Iraq army and the Kurds ...