U.S. air strikes target insurgents near Iraq's Haditha Dam
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes carried out four strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq's Haditha Dam on Sunday, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama called a campaign to curb and ultimately defeat the jihadist ...
US strikes Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland for the first time
The United States launched its first air strikes in Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland, bombing jihadists near a key dam on the Euphrates River, the US military said on Sunday. "At the request of the government of Iraq, US military forces attacked ISIL (Islamic ...
NATO's new missions won't solve Ukraine, Iraq crises
NEWPORT Wales (Reuters) - NATO leaders emerged from a summit in Wales with a plan to protect eastern members from a resurgent Russia, a pledge to reverse the decline in their defense spending, and an embryonic Western coalition to combat Islamic militants ...
Governor of Iraq's contested Anbar province wounded in clash with Islamic State militants
BAGHDAD – An Iraqi army spokesman says the governor of the country's contested Anbar province has been wounded during fighting with Islamic State militants. Army military spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said Gov. Ahmed al-Dulaimi was wounded Sunday ...
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This is going to be a post, possibly an angsty post about my relationship with my legal spouse, Mike. The links in this post all go back to previous LJ entries of mine. This is over on LJ, where there are several comments. Things aren't going well. But really, things haven't been going well for a re ...
Mortar round wounds governor of Iraq's Anbar
A mortar round wounds Ahmed al-Dulaimi, the governor of Iraq's Anbar province, in the town of Barwana shortly after it was retaken from militants, an AFP journalist says.
Aleppo, l' addio che spezza il cuore
TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LEAVE Aleppo, Lettera n° 19 Rimanere o lasciare, questo è il dilemma a cui sono di fronte oggi, più che mai, i siriani, in particolare gli Aleppini. Cosa fare? Resistere ancora? Rimanere nonostante tutto quello che sta succedendo? Nonostante tutto ciò che soffriamo da oltre tre an ...
Iraq airstrikes
The U.S. military launched airstrikes targeting members of the terror group ISIS around Haditha Dam in western Iraq on Sunday, the Pentagon said.
