Obama to assign 3,000 military personnel to fight Ebola
President Barack Obama embarks on a two-day U.S. road trip Tuesday to asses and amplify his government's response to two unconnected overseas emergencies -- the Ebola outbreak in Africa and Islamic terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
Iraqi Shi’ite Cleric Sadr Warns US Soldiers Could Be Targeted if They Return
Influential Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered members of his Mahdi Army militia to withdraw from areas where US forces are conducting their ir war against ISIS, and urged popular demonstrations against the return of US ground troops to the country. Sadr was an outspoken opponent of th ...
Iraqi Yazidi MP: 'The Peshmerga must tell the world why they fled'
BRUSSELS,— With her emotional plea in the Iraqi parliament she turned the attention of the world community to the genocide in Iraq. Even President Obama was moved by her speech and a short time later started with first aid for the displaced Yezidis on Mount Sinjar. Vian Dakhil is a lawyer, a politic ...
Mỹ không kích IS gần thủ đô Iraq
(PLO) - Hôm qua (ngày 15-09), các chiến đấu cơ Mỹ đã lầm đồng tiên tiến hành không kích lực lượng IS gần thủ đô Baghdad (Iraq). Đợt không kích được Mỹ triển khai nhằm hỗ trợ lực lượng quân đội Iraq phá vỡ vòng vây của lưc lượng Nhà nước Hồi giáo tự xưng xung quanh thủ đô nước này suốt vài tháng qua.
Meet the New Strategy… Same as the Old Strategy
In a recent documentary by VICE magazine, soldiers of the Islamic State are shown traveling from what is technically still Iraq into what is technically still Syria. The border is marked by a stretch of razor wire, which one soldier lifts to the side so that his jeep may drive across. With his back ...
Turkish Military Weighs "Buffer Zone" Against Iraq, Syria Threats - media
Ankaara: Turkey's military is drawing up plans for a possible "buffer zone" on the country's southern border, where it faces a threat from Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, Turkish media quoted President Tayyip Erdogan as saying on Monday.
INSIGHT-U.S. scouts for Sunni allies on the ground in Iraq
BAGHDAD/AMMAN, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Unwilling to send U.S. troops back to Iraq, Washington is trying to persuade armed Sunni factions and tribal figures to fight Islamic State militants in an echo of the "Awakening" movement that drove al Qaeda from the ...
OPINION: President Obama's blunder into Iraq
In the year 1212, it is believed that a young boy from central Europe heard a message from God that he must lead the youth of Europe on a crusade through the holy lands. While there are different accounts of what happened, one of the more likely accounts ...
Iraq: Isis Using Yazidis As Human Shields Against U.s. Airstrikes
Photo: Tera Dahl. DOHUK, Iraq -- Reports from eyewitnesses here in Northern Iraq spoke to Breitbart News about how the terrorist group the Islamic State is using Yazidi hostages as human shields to protect themselves against U.S. airstrikes -- using the ...
