... the Islamic State has established a safe haven. "Of course, our role is to defend our country, but the international community is responsible to protect Iraq and protect Iraqis in the whole region," al-Abadi said. "What's happening in Syria is coming across to Iraq. We cannot cross that ...
... key dams across the country, including the Haditha complex. Hagel said the Iraqi government had asked the U.S. to launch the airstrikes and that Iraqi forces on the ground conceived the operation. Anbar has for some time been a contested region between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants backed ...
... he has to bring the country with him, including a Congress that's very reluctant before the election to get involved in another war in Iraq. He has to deliver on his promise that Russia and President Putin will pay a price in Ukraine. He has to make clear that ...
... unimaginable scale. The council approved an investigation of the militants' actions in Iraq, from mass killings to sexual abuse to forced conversion. This came after Iraq's human rights minister appealed for help, saying, "We are facing a terrorist monster." MOHAMMED SHIA' AL-SUDANI, Minister of Human Rights, Iraq (through ...
... MARGARET WARNER: That's also an interesting question. First of all, of course, clearly, the Iraqi forces. This town, though it is called in Northern Iraq, is really equidistance between Irbil, where I am now, in the Kurdish capital, and Baghdad. So the Iraqi forces are pretty close and their ...
... expressed the U.S. government's willingness to provide more counterterrorism training for Iraqi security forces. The U.S. has several hundred military personnel in Iraq providing security for American facilities, including the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and the U.S. Consulate in Irbil, and coordinating with Iraqi security ...
... Gwen, is, where is the United States going to come down on this? A lot of people here, and I -- and also farther south into Iraq proper, have said, you know, the Americans' insistence over the last 10 years under Presidents George W. Bush and Obama on a unified Iraq ...
... out of a joint operations center up here in Irbil. The second thing that was missing, Judy, was a cohesive Iraqi force. This time, the Iraqis were fighting entirely on their own. And according to a senior Kurdish military official here, it was a hodgepodge of regular Iraqi army and ...
... approved, would mainly provide extra security around Baghdad. The 14 latest airstrikes were in the area of the Mosul Dam and were aimed at helping Iraqi and Kurdish forces create a buffer zone at the key facility. The strikes, which now total 84 since operations began, have helped Iraqi and ...
d. But it was all coordinated here in Irbil in this joint operation center set up by the United States, intelligence, special forces and so on, with both Kurdish military and Iraqi military. And it was U.S. intelligence and airstrikes that coordinated with fighters from both those other groups ...
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