British forces carry out their first attack on ISIS in Iraq
LONDON – According to Britain’s defense ministry, British military aircraft carried out their first airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq on Tuesday. RAF Tornadoes dropped a bomb on an ISIS weapon that was attacking Kurdish ground forces in northwestern Iraq ...
Harper signals Iraq combat mission proposal coming to the Commons
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it will be a few days before the federal cabinet decides once and for all to join an international combat mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Harper says no decision has yet been made, but ...
Britain carries out first air strikes against IS in Iraq
LONDON: British fighter jets on Tuesday (Sep 30) bombed an artillery post and an armed truck used by the Islamic State group in Iraq in the Royal Air Force's first strikes in the US-led air campaign. The defence ministry said two Tornado jets hit the post ...
Wave of attacks kills more than 40 across Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of car bombings and other attacks across Iraq killed at least 41 people on Tuesday, including 22 in the capital Baghdad, officials said. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, which mainly targeted Shiite areas and were ...
Kurds seize Iraq-Syria border post from Islamic State: Sunni tribe joins fight
Erbil, Iraq/Mursitpinar, Turkey: Iraqi Kurdish troops drove Islamic State fighters from a strategic border crossing with Syria on Tuesday and won the support of members of a major Sunni tribe, in one of the biggest successes since US forces began bombing ...
