... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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