Jun 27 Watch Unease in Baghdad grows amid echoes of past sectarian strife By PBS News Hour The U.S. is now flying armed drones over Baghdad to protect U.S. civilians and military forces in the Iraqi capital, the Pentagon confirmed. Also, Human Rights Watch released a report alleging that ISIL conducted mass executions of more than 160… Continue watching
Jun 27 Watch Will an alternative to prime minister Maliki emerge in Iraq? By PBS News Hour Iraq’s top Shiite cleric ramped up pressure on politicians to agree on the nation’s next prime minister by Tuesday. Iraq’s current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, continues to lose the confidence of former allies in the fight against ISIL insurgents. Judy… Continue watching
Jun 27 U.S. flying armed drones over Baghdad, Pentagon says By Associated Press WASHINGTON — The U.S. has armed drones flying over Baghdad to protect U.S. troops that recently arrived to assess Iraq's deteriorating security, the Pentagon said Friday. The military for more than a week has been flying manned and unmanned aircraft… Continue reading
Jun 26 Watch Assaults on Iraqi oil fields sow worry over global gas prices By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 26 Iraqis trickling back to Mosul, but bracing for more violence By Larisa Epatko When Islamic militants swept into Mosul in northern Iraq earlier this month, at least 500,000 people fled the city. Some have since returned, but many others are watching and waiting in the nearby relatively peaceful Kurdish region. Continue reading
Jun 25 Watch News Wrap: Maliki rejects appeals for a unity government in Iraq By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 25 Watch Hillary Clinton talks ‘Hard Choices’ and battle scars By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch Kurdish leader: ‘We are facing a new reality and a new Iraq’ By PBS News Hour Secretary of State John Kerry made an emergency visit to the Kurdish region of Iraq to meet with President Massoud Barzani, urging him to support political reform in Baghdad in the face of the military onslaught by ISIL. But Barzani… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch How ISIL capitalized on vulnerabilities of Iraq’s security forces By PBS News Hour The United Nations estimates that, at minimum, 1,000 people have been killed in two weeks of fighting in Iraq. Judy Woodruff talks to two former U.S. Army officers who served in Iraq -- retired Lt. Col. Douglas Ollivant and retired… Continue watching
Jun 24 Kurdish leader cites ‘new reality’ in Iraq By Lara Jakes, Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The president of Iraq's ethnic Kurdish region declared Tuesday that "we are facing a new reality and a new Iraq" as the country considers new leadership for its Shiite-led government as an immediate step to curb… Continue reading