Iraq

Iraqis Who Flee Fighting in Falluja Find Hardship and Hunger

Iraqis Who Flee Fighting in Falluja Find Hardship and Hunger Tim Arango, The New York Times 7 June, 2016 Video: Thousands of civilians have fled the Iraqi city of Falluja in the past two weeks, after government forces launched an offensive to retake the city from ISIS control. By MEGAN SPECIA and YARA BISHARA AMIRIYAT FALLUJA, Iraq — One of the Iraqi civilians who risked an escape from the sprawling battle for Falluja made it as far as the Euphrates

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In fighting ISIS, Iraq’s Shiite militias could ignite a sectarian mess

  In fighting ISIS, Iraq’s Shiite militias could ignite a sectarian mess Hugh Naylor and Mustafa Salim, The Washington Post  3 June 2016  Video: The Iraqi government's battle to recapture Falluja from the Islamic State is shaping up to be one of the biggest battles ever fought against the group. But about 50,000 civilians are believed to be trapped inside, and some are reportedly being used as human shields. (Reuters) BAGHDAD — Iraqi soldiers

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Germany: CDU councillor ‘tied asylum-seeker up’

Germany: CDU councillor 'tied asylum-seeker up' BBC News 2 June, 2016 German media say a councillor for Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) was one of a group of men who tied an Iraqi asylum-seeker to a tree. It happened after the asylum-seeker argued with staff in a supermarket in the town of Arnsdorf, near Dresden. Detlef Oelsner told local media (in German) that he would still have done it if the man were German. He said: "We showed civil

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Fear of ‘Catastrophe Unfolding’ Amid Fighting in Falluja

Fear of ‘Catastrophe Unfolding’ Amid Fighting in Falluja Tim Arango, The New York Times 1 June, 2016 Image: A member of the Iraqi security forces fired artillery during clashes with Islamic State militants on Sunday near Falluja. CreditAlaa Al-Marjani/Reuters NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq — Along the battle line north of Falluja, small units of Shiite fighters are raining mortar shells and rockets down on the city and its Islamic State occupiers. Militia

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Obama Exploring How to Prosecute Islamic State for Genocide

  Obama Exploring How to Prosecute Islamic State for Genocide:   The administration declared two months ago that ISIL is committing genocide. Now comes the hard part. Nahal Toosi, Politico  26 May 2016 Image: Kashmiri demonstrators hold up a flag of ISIL during a demonstration against Israeli military operations in Gaza in Srinagar in 2014. | Getty The Obama administration, having declared two months ago that the Islamic State is committing

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The U.S.’s Show of Power Against the Islamic State

The U.S.’s Show of Power Against the Islamic State David Ignatius, The Washington Post 23 May, 2016 Image: Iraqi government forces monitor a street in the western town of Rutba after they recaptured it from the Islamic State group. (Moadh Al-Dulaimi/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) BAGHDAD Amid hedgerows of computer screens in the joint operations center that runs the war against the Islamic State, Marine Brig. Gen. Bill Mullen explains the complex

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Scores Are Killed as a Wave of Bombings Bloodies Baghdad

Scores Are Killed as a Wave of Bombings Bloodies Baghdad By FALIH HASSAN and OMAR AL-JAWOSHY 11 MAY  2016 image: Dozens of people were killed by a car bomb in a crowded food market in the Sadr City section of Baghdad on Wednesday. By REUTERS and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish DateMay 11, 2016.Photo by Wissm Al-Okili/Reuters     BAGHDAD — In a burst of attacks recalling Iraq’s sectarian civil war, three bombings in three different neighborhoods

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Of Pride, Falls — and Obama’s Foreign Policy

Of Pride, Falls — and Obama’s Foreign Policy Richard Cohen, The Washington Post 9 May 2016 Image: Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications and speechwriting, at a White House press briefing in February. (Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press I’ve read a fair number of books on foreign policy in recent years, yet the one that has made the greatest impression on me was assigned in the sixth grade. It was Esther Forbes’s

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Families of Britons Fighting ISIS in Syria Plea for Their Release

Families of Britons Fighting ISIS in Syria Plea for Their Release After They Were Arrested 'Crossing Into Iraq Illegally' JENNY STANTON, MAILONLINE 18 April 2016   Image: Detained - Irishman Joshua Molloy, 24, was arrested by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq. The anti-ISIS fighter is pictured carrying the flag of his enemy. The families of two Britons and an Irishman detained in Iraq on their return home from fighting Islamic

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Iraq: U.S. to Send 200 More Troops

U.S. to Send 200 More Troops, Apache Helicopters, to Iraq LOLITA C. BALDOR, ASSOCIATED PRESS  18 April 2016   Image: © AFP | US Us Army trainer with Iraqi troops in July 2015   The U.S. has agreed to deploy more than 200 additional troops to Iraq and to send Apache helicopters for the first time into the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the first major increase in U.S. forces in nearly a year, U.S. defense officials said

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