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Apr 14

Iraqi PM making in-person appeal to Obama for more military support

By Nedra Pickler, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is making an in-person appeal to President Barack Obama on Tuesday for more help defeating the Islamic State militants, hoping recent gains in the fight will encourage more investment from a war-weary United…

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Apr 13

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Iraqi PM to appeal to U.S. for more firepower and support against Islamic State

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Mar 21

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Former U.S. soldier joins militia to defend Christian faith in Iraq

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Mar 06

Islamic State group destroys ancient site of Nimrud in northern Iraq

By Leah Nagy

Islamic State fighters ransacked and bulldozed the centuries-old archaeological site of Nimrud in northern Iraq on Thursday, in what the head of the U.N.’s cultural agency decried as a “cultural cleansing” that amounted to a “war crime.”…

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Mar 04

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U.S. General leading coalition sees momentum in fight against Islamic State

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American warplanes are staying out of Iraq’s offensive against Tikrit, instead targeting Islamic State militants elsewhere. Judy Woodruff talks to retired Gen. John Allen, special presidential envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State, about how the U.S. is supporting…

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Mar 04

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Islamic State blunted by U.S. efforts, says Pentagon

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On Monday, Iraq launched an operation to retake Tikrit, its biggest offensive yet against the Islamic State militants who have controlled portions of Syria and Iraq since last summer. A dozen nations have launched thousands of airstrikes against the group,…

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Mar 02

Iraq reopens museum in defiance of jihadist threat

By Larisa Epatko

The Iraqi National Museum, ransacked after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, has reopened 12 years later displaying ancient winged creatures, tablets and sculptures in stone.

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Feb 21

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In tackling the Islamic State, what are the Mosul mission’s chances for success?

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At a briefing this week, a U.S. official announced plans to take back Iraq’s second biggest city, Mosul, from Islamic State fighters who captured it last June. What are the chances that the operation will succeed? Douglas Ollivant, a military…

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Feb 19

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Freed but not free: Yazidi girls who escaped Islamic State are trapped by trauma

By Marcia Biggs

Last summer, militants from the Islamic State group attacked a small ethnic group called the Yazidis, executing men and taking thousands of women and girls as slaves. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports from Northern Iraq on the rape, violence, threats…

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Feb 16

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Islamic State exploits the chaos of civil war in Libya

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The murder of Egyptian Christian hostages by the Islamic State in Libya raises the alarm that the militant group is expanding from its territory in Syria and Iraq. Gwen Ifill talks to Frederic Wehrey of the Carnegie Endowment for International…

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