Slick videos, social media lure Minnesotans to fight in Middle East
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has zeroed in on Minnesota, home to the largest Somali population in the country, as a target-rich recruiting ground for fighters .
Noon Briefing Media Headlines – Friday, September 19
Source: UN Assistance Mission for Iraq Country: Iraq The Iraqi Ministry of Health, with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, successfully concluded a mass polio immunization campaign in all 18 governorates on Thursday, immunizing millions of children across the country. The ...
New ISIS Video Features A Masked Fighter Who May Be American
The militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL) has released a 55-minute long propaganda video featuring battle scenes and slick editing, but it is the last moments of the video — with a masked English-speaking fighter — that has U.S. intelligence most interested. The man, who ...
Mental trauma keeps Iraq vet from holding job
The past several months have given Xavier Watt the opportunity to ferry his 10-year-old daughter to and from school, take her to visit her grandparents and go out for ice cream. He does the grocery shopping and keeps the house clean for his wife and little ...
Militants threaten ancient sites in Iraq, Syria
BAGHDAD (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, numerous civilizations have left their mark on upper Mesopotamia — from Assyrians and Akkadians to Babylonians and Romans. Their ancient, buried cities, palaces and temples packed with monumental art are ...
Turkey obtains release of hostages held in Iraq
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey secured the release of 49 hostages who had been held for more than three months in Iraq by the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on Saturday, marking a moment of joy for Turkey while raising questions about how it ...
Suspicions Run Deep in Iraq That CIA and the Islamic State Are United
Baghdad: The United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes against the extremists of the Islamic State for more than a month. But that appears to have done little to tamp down the conspiracy theories still circulating from the ...
