• U.S. drone destroys Iraqi militant mortar position

    U.S. drone destroys Iraqi militant mortar position

    Aug 12, 2014 02:54 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — U.S. military officials say an armed American drone has attacked and destroyed a mortar position of Islamic militants in northern Iraq. The U.S. Central Command issued a brief statement saying the Tuesday morning attack targeted a mortar position that was firing on members of the Kurdish militia ...

  • Can Abadi form a workable government for Iraq?

    Can Abadi form a workable government for Iraq?

    Aug 12, 2014 12:44 AM EDT

    ... it's very tough. I think, in addition to trying to contain the demands, the increasing demands, I think he needs to reach out to Iraq's neighbors. I think Maliki has spoiled relationships with all of Iraq's neighbors. And he needs to reach to all of them to ...

  • News Wrap: Iraq’s president taps Abadi to replace Maliki as prime minister

    News Wrap: Iraq’s president taps Abadi to replace Maliki as prime minister

    Aug 12, 2014 12:43 AM EDT

    ... through interpreter): I have confidence that, with the people and political blocs, we would be able to overcome this barbaric and savage attack on the Iraqi people and provide a good environment for the Iraqi people to live in. GWEN IFILL: But Maliki has spurned calls from the U.S ...

  • Obama calls for new Iraqi government

    Obama calls for new Iraqi government

    Aug 11, 2014 08:40 PM EDT

    President Obama spoke about political developments in Iraq on Friday. Updated at 5:35 p.m. EDT CHILMARK, Mass. — President Obama is giving his approval to the appointment of a prime minister to replace Nouri al-Maliki and urging the formation of a new government in Iraq as soon as ...

  • U.S. sends disaster relief team to Iraq

    U.S. sends disaster relief team to Iraq

    Aug 11, 2014 04:32 PM EDT

    ... team will help speed food, water and other life-saving supplies to Iraqis. Much of the assistance will go to thousands of members of an Iraqi religious minority group known as Yazidis who have been trapped on a mountaintop in northwest Iraq to escape certain death by Sunni militants with ...

  • Obama’s Iraqi quicksand

    Obama’s Iraqi quicksand

    Aug 11, 2014 01:08 PM EDT

    Today in the Morning Line: Back to Iraq - a bombing campaign and no political resolution in sight Hillary Clinton more forcefully distances from President Obama A St. Louis shooting with echoes of the Trayvon Martin case 2014 watch: Still waiting on Hawaii, Tennessee results Iraq - no way out? Nearly two months ago, we...

  • U.S. begins sending arms to Kurdish forces in Iraq

    U.S. begins sending arms to Kurdish forces in Iraq

    Aug 11, 2014 12:57 PM EDT

    ... S. might expand its assistance to Iraq, or if military assessment teams currently in Baghdad would be moving to a more active role advising the Iraqi forces. "We're going to continue to support the Iraqi security forces in every way that we can as they request assistance there," Hagel ...

  • Power shift underway in Iraq as Maliki faces challenger

    Power shift underway in Iraq as Maliki faces challenger

    Aug 11, 2014 05:40 AM EDT

    A potential power shift is underway in Iraq on Monday as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki finds himself being pushed out of the government. Iraq's president, Fouad Massoum, nominated Haider al-Abadi, a fellow member of Mr. Maliki’s Shiite Islamist Dawa Party, as prime minister. The move takes ...

  • Beyond Iraq, what's next for the Islamic State?

    Beyond Iraq, what's next for the Islamic State?

    Aug 10, 2014 09:30 PM EDT

    ... terror, the destruction of cultural heritage, the rape, the slave markets we hear, the burying alive. We haven’t heard any stories of crucifixions in Iraq but certainly we’ve seen it in Syria by this group. The Islamic State of Iraq in Syria, or ISIL or the Islamic State ...

  • Graham to Obama: Expand Iraq airstrikes or risk terrorist attack

    Graham to Obama: Expand Iraq airstrikes or risk terrorist attack

    Aug 10, 2014 03:28 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON -- A leading Republican says he worries an American city could soon be a terrorist target if the U.S. military fails to turn back Islamic militants on the march in Iraq and Syria. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told "Fox News Sunday" that the extremist Islamic State group ...