... of U.S. citizens and on the Iraqi side there are thousands of Yazidis from a religious minority stranded on a mountainside that maybe the Iraqi government hasn’t been able to help with, so this has pulled some U.S. involvement into Iraq. HARI SREENIVASAN: You got there right ...
... arms and equipment, which the terrorist group could have used against the city. President Obama reiterated that U.S. troops would not be sent to Iraq, citing lessons learned from a costly and long invasion in Iraq in the past. "So it would be a big mistake for us to ...
... he welcomed Obama's decision in Iraq, it was inevitable that "those who have called for a similar humanitarian intervention in Syria will wonder why Iraq and why not Syria." Obama's advisers say there are important differences between Iraq and Syria. Officials note that Obama is undertaking military action ...
... is going to work. Frankly, a lot of our critics seem to think that there are U.S. military solutions that we can impose onto Iraq. I think the lesson of the last decade is the U.S. military can't impose a political outcome on Iraq. Only Iraqis can ...
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s top news, including U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State militant group in Iraq, how Americans are grading President Obama’s foreign policy performance, plus how men and women are hoping for different outcomes in November’s election and looking...
... war that temporarily neutralized Sunni extremists but failed to produce lasting peace. U.S. military jets dropped food and water to imperiled refugees in northwestern Iraq and launched several airstrikes Friday on isolated targets, including two mortar positions and a vehicle convoy in northeastern Iraq, near the country's Kurdish ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. launched two more airstrikes against Islamic State targets in northern Iraq on Friday, hitting a vehicle convoy and two mortar positions, the Pentagon said. The attacks near the city of Irbil were carried out by armed drones and Navy fighter jets, said the Defense Department's ...
WASHINGTON -- Federal aviation authorities are prohibiting U.S. airlines and other commercial carriers from flying over Iraq, saying hostilities there could threaten safety. The FAA announced the ban Friday, citing the "potentially hazardous situation" created by fighting between militants and Iraqi security forces and their allies. The ban applies to ...
... the conflict zones” in other parts of Iraq. Extremists, who call themselves the Islamic State, have been taking over towns and cities mostly in northern Iraq, including Fallujah and Mosul earlier this year. On Saturday, they captured Sinjar near the Syrian border, displacing more than 200,000 Iraqis. On Thursday ...
... traveling with him in India, Hagel also said that more than 60 of 72 bundles of food and water airdropped onto the mountain reached the Iraqi religious minorities stranded there. A day after President Barack Obama authorized the airstrikes and humanitarian aid in northern Iraq, the military said it has ...
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