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Future ground role for US military advisors in Iraq likely: Dempsey
Oct 12, 2014 (AFP)
US military advisors are likely to take a more direct role in the ground campaign against jihadists in Iraq once Iraqi forces are ready to go on the offensive, ...
Triple car bomb attack kills 25 in Iraq town: officials
Oct 12, 2014 (AFP)
Three suicide car bomb attacks against offices in a Kurdish-controlled Iraqi town killed at least 25 people on Sunday, most of them Kurdish forces veterans volu...
Iraqis will have to fight IS to win back country
Oct 12, 2014 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday it was ultimately up to Iraqis to fight back against the Islamic State group advancing in Iraq despite US-led ai...
US drops food, ammunition to embattled Iraqi troops
Oct 11, 2014 (AFP)
US military aircraft have delivered food, water and ammunition to besieged Iraqi troops battling Islamic State militants, the Pentagon said Saturday, as the coa...
Suicide car bomb kills 10 in Iraq's Baquba
Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)
A suicide car bomb blast at a police checkpoint in the Iraqi city of Baquba Thursday killed at least 10 people and wounded 11, security and medical sources said...
Vian Dakhil, the voice of Iraq's Yazidi minority
Oct 06, 2014 (AFP)
Few people had ever heard of Iraq's Yazidis until Vian Dakhil, who received the Anna Politkovskaya human rights award Monday, made a poignant appeal to save her...
Obama team wanted US out of Iraq: Panetta
Oct 03, 2014 (AFP)
Former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has denounced the White House in a new memoir, accusing President Barack Obama's top aides of undercutting efforts to secure ...
Iraqi Kurds look to sky for breakthrough against IS
Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)
A truck lies stranded on its side in a no man's land between Kurdish fighters and jihadists ensconced behind minefields, a stalemate the Kurds hope US-led air s...
Support for Iraq should respect sovereignty: FM
Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq's foreign minister said Wednesday that foreign assistance in the fight against the Islamic State jihadist group should respect the country's sovereignty. H...
Baghdad steps up propaganda fightback with jihadist TV satire
Sep 29, 2014 (AFP)
As Iraqi forces struggle to pin back the Islamic State group on the ground, Baghdad is taking its war against the jihadists to the airwaves with a television co...
Iraqi army says retook dam from jihadists
Sep 27, 2014 (AFP)
The Iraqi army and an alliance of Shiite militia groups on Saturday retook a dam northeast of Baghdad after days of fighting believed to have killed dozens, sec...
Turkey prepared for military role in anti-IS coalition: Erdogan
Sep 27, 2014 (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey could take a military role in the coalition fighting Islamic State (IS) militants as Ankara moves to take a f...
British PM urges parliament to back 'years' of Iraq action
Sep 26, 2014 (AFP)
British Prime Minister David Cameron warned that military action against Islamic State (IS) militants could last for "years" Friday as he urged lawmakers to bac...
Iraq Kurds advance but Mosul still out of reach
Sep 25, 2014 (AFP)
Western support has helped Iraq's Kurdish troops regain ground and momentum against the Islamic State group, but retaking the northern jihadist hub of Mosul rem...
Obama hails 'vision' of Iraqi PM at first meeting
Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday hailed the "political vision" and inclusive nature of new Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi as the two leaders met for...
Baghdad car bomb kills at least 14
Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)
A car bomb exploded near a market in the Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, Iraqi police and medical sources s...
Small boats lifeline for jihadist-besieged Iraq area
Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)
Small, battered metal boats crowd a muddy landing site on the Tigris River, taking on goods and passengers for the trip to an Iraqi area jihadists have besieged...
Jihadists kill 40 Iraqi soldiers, capture at least 70
Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)
Jihadists attacked an Iraqi army base west of Baghdad with six suicide bombers, killing 40 soldiers and capturing at least 70 others who fled, a senior army off...
For first time, US targets IS training camp in Iraq: Centcom
Sep 18, 2014 (AFP)
US aircraft have targeted a training camp for Islamic State jihadists in northern Iraq, bombing buildings, fighters and vehicles in the first such air strike, m...
Iraq Jihadists face growing pressure, but no US troops
Sep 17, 2014 (AFP)
Elite Iraqi troops backed by US jets battled jihadists near Baghdad Wednesday as President Barack Obama insisted US ground troops would not be deployed to battl...
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