... Obama's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism. In Iraq, a new round of U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq on Monday aimed to help Iraqi forces regain control of the Mosul dam and averting a potential dam failure. An Iraqi Army spokesman in Baghdad said Iraqi and Kurdish forces ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: Good evening thanks for joining us. American jets today hit positions near a key dam in Northern Iraq that had been captured recently by Islamic extremists. This a day after the extremists, members of the Islamic State, are said to have massacred dozens of Yazidis. The extremists ...
... more open and inclusive, because, otherwise, the country will not be able to stay together. That being said, so this is a good week in Iraq. A good week in Iraq is not a good week, because there is still the fundamental problem that the president, the administration and the ...
... of the violence that erupted last night and explore what is behind racial tensions in the Saint Louis community after the news summary. GWEN IFILL: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki finally stepped down this evening, as his support crumbled on all sides. He announced he wants to -- quote -- "safeguard ...
https://twitter.com/AP/status/500007247557443584 The Associated Press is reporting from Baghdad that Iraqi Prime Minister “Nouri al-Maliki has given up the post of prime minister to Haider al-Abadi.” We will update this story as it unfolds.
... less likely" now that a rescue mission would be needed. Hagel called the assessment a bit of good news. Of the U.S. effort in Iraq, he said: "It's not over. It's not complete." Attacks across Iraq's north and west by the Islamic State and its Sunni ...
... Iraq. Obama is expected to make a decision in days. "We don't believe that involves U.S. troops re-entering a combat role in Iraq," said Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser. "It involves frankly a very difficult logistical challenge of moving folks who are in danger ...
... the action accompanied by broader criticism of Obama's Iraq policy. They cite the administration's inability to secure a U.S. military presence in Iraq after 2012 and its refusal for several weeks to order military action while officials were collecting intelligence and prodding Iraq into forming a more ...
... GWEN IFILL: In Iraq today, an aid helicopter on a mission to help stranded members of the Yazidi religious minority crashed. Meanwhile, the man chosen to succeed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gained critical international support. On the streets of Baghdad today, Iraqis tried to keep track of ...
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Another 130 U.S. troops arrived in Iraq on Tuesday on what the Pentagon described as a temporary mission to assess the scope of the humanitarian crisis facing thousands of displaced Iraqi civilians trapped on Sinjar Mountain and evaluate options for getting them out to safety. Defense ...
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