Jun 13 What are the U.S.’s options in Iraq? By Larisa Epatko After taking over Iraq’s second largest city Mosul, the Sunni insurgent group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant set its sights on Baghdad, launching a debate over what the United States should do -- if anything… Continue reading
Jun 13 Social media networks blocked in Iraq to prevent insurgency plotting By Colleen Shalby The Iraqi Ministry of Communications has blocked social media networks Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in Iraq to prevent the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria from “using the outlets to organise their insurgency.”… Continue reading
Jun 13 Obama on Iraq security: We can’t do it for them By Julie Pace, Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press President Barack Obama said Friday he is weighing a range of options for countering the violent Islamic insurgency in Iraq, but he warned government leaders in Baghdad the U.S. will not take military action unless they move to address deep-seeded… Continue reading
Jun 13 Kerry: Iraq insurgency threatens U.S interests By Lara Jakes, Associated Press The U.S. is citing its years of fighting in Iraq as a reason for considering new military action to battle a growing insurgency there but not in neighboring Syria's civil war. Continue reading
Jun 13 Iraq crisis another foreign policy complication for Obama By Domenico Montanaro, Terence Burlij, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Militants in Iraq took the city of Mosul and captured two more cities as they advanced toward their goal of taking Baghdad in an unfolding crisis that is already having political ramifications for President Barack Obama back in the United… Continue reading
Jun 12 Watch Kurdish troops take Kirkuk after Iraqi forces flee By PBS News Hour Outside Kirkuk, Iraqi troops were filmed trying to halt the advance of Sunni militants. But when the government forces fled, Kurdish fighters moved into the city that they have long claimed as their historical capital. Reporting from Irbil, Jonathan Rugman… Continue watching
Jun 12 Watch Iraq faces existential crisis as Sunni insurgency gains ground By PBS News Hour As Sunni militants continue their march towards Baghdad, the Obama administration said the U.S. will not send forces on the ground in Iraq, but will assist in other ways. Judy Woodruff talks to Jane Arraf, an Iraq-based journalist, for an… Continue watching
Jun 12 Obama said Iraq will need U.S. assistance By Julie Pace, Associated Press President Barack Obama said Thursday Iraq will need more help from the United States as it seeks to push back a violent Islamic insurgency that has captured two key cities and is vowing to press toward Bagdad. Continue reading
Jun 12 U.S. plans to send more aid to combat growing insurgency in Iraq By Lara Jakes, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States is preparing to send new aid to Iraq to help slow a violent insurgent march that is threatening to take over the nation's north, officials said Wednesday. But the Obama administration offered only tepid support… Continue reading
Jun 11 Watch News Wrap: Sunni extremists extend control toward Baghdad with Tikrit takeover By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, a group of Sunni militants broadened their control in Iraq by capturing the city of Tikrit, only 80 miles north of Baghdad. The al-Qaida linked group took over Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, a day… Continue watching