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Haaretz
April 29, 2018
No less interesting is the silence in the region and further afield in the face of Iran's heavy influence in Iraq. Iran is Iraq's major trading partner, it's fostering political elites in that country, training military forces and has established army units that played a big role in the war against the Islamic State. But Iran is ...
The National
April 29, 2018
In campaigning for upcoming elections, the majority of Iraq's 6,982 political candidates have promised to fight corruption, tackle sectarianism and rebuild the ... A recent episode of the show featured a clip of one candidate vehemently attacking the Popular Mobilisation Forces or Hashed Al Shaabi – an ...
Iraqi News
April 29, 2018
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has reiterated his country's rejection of any military interference in Syria, stressing that the ... Two weeks ago, the US, UK and France said their air forces and navies fired 105 missiles, targeting three chemical weapons sites in Syria in ...
The National
April 29, 2018
A ransom deal involving Qatar, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria could end up having implications for Washington, after it was reported that huge sums of cash went ... “It's important to remember that the group targeted US forces during the Iraq war with advanced weapons, continues to threaten US interests, has ...
Department of Defense
April 27, 2018
On April 24, coalition military forces conducted five strikes consisting of six engagements against ISIS targets. Near Abu Kamal, four strikes engaged an ISIS tactical unit, destroying three ISIS fighting positions and an ISIS vehicle and damaging a fighting position. Near Shadaddi, a strike engaged an ISIS ...
Newsweek
April 26, 2018
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told reporters Tuesday that the strike killed a number of the beleaguered jihadi group's leading officials, thanks to Iraqi ... Since two separate campaigns waged by the Russia-backed Syrian military and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces wiped out ISIS from most of ...
The Guardian
April 17, 2018
She has also forbidden the US military from moving the detainee without giving lawyers 72 hours to challenge the decision. The civil liberties group is calling the transfer plan a case of “forcible rendering”. As such it has echoes of the black-site renditions program that was run by the US government in the ...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 8, 2018
In March 1988, Halabja – just nine miles from Iran's border – was targeted by the US-sponsored Iraqi army, due to the city being under the control of the Tehran-allied Kurdish guerrillas. The Reagan administration was heavily supporting Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). Iranian nationalists ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
March 8, 2018
Isaiah Lloyd, right, came home to Clinton in time for Christmas after serving with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division as one of the last U.S. troops to leave Iraq. His father, Roger Lloyd, left, has organized a homecoming celebration Sunday at their church. (Photo: J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel)Buy Photo.
The Japan Times
March 8, 2018
WASHINGTON – Dave Baril has served in the U.S. Marine Corps for over 18 years, deployed twice to Iraq, and is a gun owner. ... Baril is one of a group of U.S. military veterans calling for tighter firearms regulations in an effort to reduce gun violence in America, bringing their knowledge of weapons and war ...
KTVQ Billings News
March 8, 2018
March 19, 2003 - President Bush announces US and coalition forces have begun military action against Iraq. March 20, 2003 - President Hussein speaks on Iraqi TV, calling the coalition's attacks "shameful crimes against Iraq and humanity." March 23, 2003 - Pfc. Jessica Lynch and other members of the ...
OregonLive.com
March 7, 2018
He served as an interpreter for U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq about 10 to 12 years ago. In 2009, he immigrated to the United States, sponsored by an Army officer with whom he had worked in Iraq, under the U.S. Significant Public Benefit Parole Program. The program allows the homeland security secretary to ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 7, 2018
From left, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Peter Altmaier, Head of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Tasks, smile at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 7, 2018.
Military Times
February 18, 2018
It was a bitter sign of the mixed legacy from the United States' intervention in Iraq to help defeat the militants. American-backed ... Iraq's regular military remains dependent on U.S. support. ... The U.S. Army chief of staff says U.S. troops in Iraq will continue to help its security forces root out ISIS. But what ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 31, 1999
While the Islamic State has retreated from large swaths of Iraq it once controlled, mobile groups of militants continue to stage attacks on Iraqi troops and ... In February 2018, the U.S. military and State Department finally admitted that pro-Iran forces were operating M1s. The militias seized some of the M1s ...
The Arab Weekly
February 18, 2018
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq - Now that Iraq has claimed victory over the Islamic State (ISIS) after a bloody three-and-a-half-year war, the US-led coalition is decreasing air support in the country as part of the coalition's shrinking footprint amid a drawdown of US forces. US and Iraqi air force commanders said the ...
PRESSTV
February 15, 2018
Our forces and the Iraqi army were fighting against Daesh. Under a military agreement that expired in 2011, Americans should leave Iraq. However, they don't stick to that agreement. Iraqi people don't want US military staff to stay in their country. No country would like to be occupied by another country.”.
Military Times
February 15, 2018
13, 2018, photo, Iraqi army soldier stand guard near a U.S.-made Iraqi Air Force F-16 fighter jet at the Balad Air Base, 45 miles (75 kilometers) north of ... American and Iraqi air force commanders say the coalition will launch fewer airstrikes in support of Iraqi forces and instead focus more on training Iraqi ...
CNBC
February 5, 2018
... the drawdown had begun. "It is our intent to publish a release whenever we have forces moving out of the theater," the spokesman, U.S. Army Col. Ryan Dillon, told Reuters. "Continued coalition presence will be conditions-based, proportional to the need and in coordination with the government of Iraq," ...
Kurdistan24
December 31, 1999
... foreign military sales funds,” according to UPI. The agreement with Spartan is one of a few contracts Washington has awarded for the development and training of Iraqi forces. In January, the US Air Force granted Sallyport Global Holdings a USD 400 million agreement for base operations and security for Iraq's F-16 fighter ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
September 13, 2017
The United States, since 1992, feeling sympathetic to the Kurds as they were kicked around by the government of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, ... The first round included having the U.S. military create a “no fly” zone to ... Eventually, U.S. forces in Iraq came increasingly to rely on Kurdish militias ...
HuffPost
September 13, 2017
The U.S. soon began retraining and rearming its Iraqi allies to the tune of ... Accountability Office found that “the United States could not account for nearly 30% of the weapons it had distributed in Iraq since 2004 ― about 200,000 guns.” ... in “The American Military Uncontained,” since 9/11 the U.S. military ...
Rudaw
September 13, 2017
Iraqi and Kurdish security forces, backed by the US-led Global ... it relies on the military force to protect the unity of Iraq,” Bakhtiyar said.
The Denver Post
September 13, 2017
The U.S. military declassifies 81 locations of unexploded, coalition bombs ... to help aid groups and contractors clear explosives from Iraq's war-scarred cities. ... in the battle to oust Islamic State militants from the Iraqi city of Mosul. ... were pushed aside as Iraqi forces cleared roads to move through the city.
CNBC
September 12, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a news conference in the East ... U.S. responses to Iran's forces, its Shi'ite Muslim proxies in Iraq and ... a more muscular military response to Iranian proxies in Syria and Iraq ... Moreover, looser rules could embroil the United States in a conflict with Iran while U.S. forces ...
New York Times
August 31, 2017
The Iraqi military's next target, the city of Hawija, is likely to be more complicated. ... Sami al-Aridhi, a top commander in Iraq's counterterrorism forces, said ... of Iraqi forces, including elite special forces, the Iraqi Army, federal ...
Newsweek
August 30, 2017
In Iraq, the U.S. supports the Iraqi military and Kurdish allies mostly through airstrikes but also with special operations forces. The Pentagon ...
Al-Monitor
August 26, 2017
US-trained, local tribal fighters are preparing to cleanse Iraq's Anbar province ... A member of the Iraqi army on the front line against the Islamic State in the ... Many of the men had no prior military experience but are currently ...
FRANCE 24
August 26, 2017
Iraqi forces have dislodged Islamic State from 70 percent of Tal Afar, a stronghold of the militants in northwestern Iraq, Foreign Minister ... where they are to echo calls by US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis for the postponement of next ... Video: Civilians flee as Iraqi army seeks to retake Tal Afar from IS group.
HuffPost
August 25, 2017
Rand, which studied the matter, wrote in a statement at that time: “If the U.S. military decides to let transgender people serve openly, the number ...
Al-Monitor
August 24, 2017
Syrian government forces secure a road for a military convoy in the ... The United States and Iran are vying for influence in Iraq, and accusations are flying. ... A source in the Iraqi army told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, ...
Los Angeles Times
August 23, 2017
The Iraqi army, backed by U.S. airstrikes and special operations commandos, ... Stephen Townsend, the top U.S. general in Iraq, said in Baghdad. ... because of objections from Turkey, the United States and other countries who ... Mattis replied that “no military in the world's history has paid more attention to ...
Kurdistan24
August 12, 2017
Iraqi army rejects reports of US military base near Tal Afar ... ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The United States has not opened a ... Iraq's Joint Operations Command denied the existence of a US military base near ... “The participation of coalition forces and US forces is limited to air support and ...
Department of Defense
August 12, 2017
SOUTHWEST ASIA, Aug. 12, 2017 — U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria yesterday, conducting 34 strikes ...
Middle East Monitor
August 11, 2017
Iraq's Joint Operations Command today denied the existence of a US military base near the Tal Afar district in the northwest of the country.
The Independent
August 11, 2017
... found there is ongoing Isis resistance in Mosul, despite the fact the Iraqi city was declared liberated by US-backed Iraqi coalition forces in ...
Newsweek
August 9, 2017
Saddam Hussein rules Iraq with an iron hand inside a steel glove, backed by a million-man Army and a legion of informers, assassins and torturers. ... a chicken-feed deal: a $10,490 item on an Iraqi military shopping list ... During most of the Iran-Iraq war, which ended in August 1988, the United States did ...
Newsweek
July 24, 2017
Iran and Iraq have pledged to join forces against militant fighters and ideology in the region by boosting bilateral defense ties, a move that ...
DoD Buzz
December 31, 1999
Funk Takes Charge of US Forces in Iraq, Syria ... Resolve in supporting the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) in prolonged offensives that culminated ... Ryan Dillon, a task force spokesman, said the headquarters of the U.S. Army's 18th Airborne Corps, led by Townsend, ... Richard Sisk is a reporter for Military.com.
Topeka Capital Journal
March 29, 2017
John Johnson, who entered the U.S. Army in 1986, deployed to Iraq in 2007 and served in the Kansas Guard, said Beach looked at things in a similar way as some of Johnson's old-school mentors.
Sputnik International
March 29, 2017
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A US contractor received a more than $28 million Army foreign military sales contract to provide 150 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled (HMMW) vehicles for the government of Iraq, the Department of Defense said in a press ...
Stars and Stripes
March 29, 2017
International humanitarian law requires military forces to avoid civilian casualties, and U.S. forces are learning that failing to do so can play into the propaganda of their media-savvy enemies.
Newsweek
March 27, 2017
A still image of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi making his first public appearance at a mosque in the center of Iraq's second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted online, July 5, 2014. Iraqi forces are bidding to recapture the mosque in ...
Kurdistan24
March 27, 2017
In 2011, another wave of Kurdish troops abandoned the Army and became Peshmerga, especially after the US withdrew its ground forces in the country. Moreover, the third wave begun in June 2014 after the emergence of the IS in Mosul and collapse of the ...
BuzzFeed News
March 27, 2017
WASHINGTON - Despite capturing 700 videos surrounding an airstrike that may have killed hundreds of civilians, the US military did not know about the reported deaths until more than a week later, a CENTCOM spokesman told reporters Monday. "We look ...
Military Times
March 27, 2017
WASHINGTON - An anticipated military escalation in northern Iraq will include up to 300 additional U.S. troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, ...
Just Security
March 27, 2017
Last Friday, several news outlets reported that perhaps as many as 200 civilians had been killed in a recent U.S. airstrike in Mosul in northern Iraq, where the U.S. is participating in an offensive against the Islamic State. The U.S. coalition has ...
Newsweek
March 27, 2017
To assist Iraqi forces in the fight against the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS in Iraq, a number of U.S. military personnel have adopted new black uniforms. U.S. military advisers have begun wearing outfits similar to soldiers in Iraq's elite ...
The Intercept
March 26, 2017
And one of Trump's first military actions was what can only be described as a massacre carried out by Navy SEALs, in which 30 Yemenis were killed; among the children killed was an 8-year-old American girl (whose 16-year-old American brother was killed ...
The Independent
March 25, 2017
A non-profit organisation that tracks civilian casualties caused by airstrikes in the Middle East said it has shifted nearly all of its resources to track a surge of claims regarding US-led strikes in Syria and Iraq. The group, called Airwars.org ...
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