IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Iraq Kurds press anti-jihadist drive as US, UK turn up heat

Aug 18, 2014 (AFP)

Kurdish peshmerga fighters backed by federal forces and American warplanes pressed a counter-offensive Monday against jihadists after retaking Iraq's largest da...

Kurds fight to retake Iraq's largest dam after 'massacre'

Aug 17, 2014 (AFP)

Kurdish forces backed by US warplanes battled on Saturday to retake Iraq's largest dam from jihadist fighters, a day after militants carried out a "massacre" of...

Jihadists kill dozens in north Iraq 'massacre': officials

Aug 16, 2014 (AFP)

Jihadists carried out a "massacre" in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho, killing dozens of people, most of them members of the Yazidi religious minority, offi...

UN Council targets jihadists in Iraq, Syria

Aug 15, 2014 (AFP)

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday aimed at weakening Islamists in Iraq and Syria with measures to choke off funding and the flow o...

Iraq Yazidis say neighbours enabled jihadist attack

Aug 14, 2014 (AFP)

Yazidis fleeing a jihadist onslaught in northern Iraq say neighbours took up arms alongside their attackers, informing on members of the religious minority and ...

Kerry urges new inclusive government in Iraq, rules out sending troops

Aug 12, 2014 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday urged Iraqi prime minister-designate Haidar al-Abadi quickly to form an inclusive government, while ruling out sendi...

Britain to transport arms to Kurds as it bolsters Iraq aid

Aug 12, 2014 (AFP)

Britain is to transport military supplies from other states to Kurdish forces battling militants in northern Iraq and strengthen its aid mission there, the gove...

Iraq PM designate gains support as Maliki bid falters

Aug 12, 2014 (AFP)

Iraq's premier designate Haidar al-Abadi is gaining widespread support from countries hoping political reconciliation will undercut jihadists, as Iran on Tuesda...

Maliki spurned as Iraq president nominates new PM

Aug 11, 2014 (AFP)

Iraq moved closer to turning the page on Nuri al-Maliki's controversial reign Monday when his own clan spurned him for another prime minister to save the countr...

Kerry warns Iraq's Maliki not to cause trouble

Aug 11, 2014 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday warned Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki not to cause trouble as he threw his weight behind newly-elected President...

Maliki, Iraq's rebel-turned-PM trying to cling to power

Aug 11, 2014 (AFP)

Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's rebel-turned-leader who Monday saw his bid for a third term fall apart, rose from anonymous exile to powerful premier but lost support as...

US: No plans to expand Iraq strikes

Aug 11, 2014 (AFP)

The United States has no plans to expand its air campaign in Iraq beyond protecting American personnel in the city of Arbil and besieged Yazidi refugees, the Pe...

West in push to save Iraqis on Mount Sinjar

Aug 10, 2014 (AFP)

US jets attacked jihadists who have besieged civilians on an Iraqi mountain for a week, as France and Britain Sunday joined a desperate race to save them from s...

Obama warns of 'long-term project' in Iraq

Aug 09, 2014 (AFP)

President Barack Obama warned Saturday that the US offensive in Iraq was a "long-term project" to rout out militants and deliver aid to beleaguered civilians. R...

Obama vows to save Iraqis stranded on mountain

Aug 09, 2014 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama vowed Saturday to help rescue thousands of civilians besieged by jihadists on an Iraqi mountain, as an MP warned they would not surviv...

World alarm grows over IS onslaught in Iraq

Aug 07, 2014 (AFP)

The UN Security Council called an emergency meeting Thursday on the crisis sparked by the advance of Islamic State fighters who seized Iraq's largest Christian ...

Turkey gives sanctuary to hundreds of Yazidis fleeing Iraq

Aug 07, 2014 (AFP)

Up to 800 people from Iraq's Yazidi community have fled across the border to Turkey after escaping a lightning offensive by jihadists from the Islamic State (IS...

Iraq jihadist advances spark Christian exodus, Western alarm

Aug 07, 2014 (AFP)

Jihadists seized much of Iraq's Christian heartland and moved within striking distance of autonomous Kurdistan on Thursday in a push that stirred panic among re...

US mulls action in Iraq, warns of 'catastrophe'

Aug 07, 2014 (AFP)

The United States warned Thursday a jihadist offensive in northern Iraq could provoke a "humanitarian catastrophe," amid reports that President Barack Obama was...

UN Council meets amid alarm over Iraq jihadist advance

Aug 07, 2014 (AFP)

The UN Security Council met Thursday in emergency session to address the crisis sparked by the jihadist offensive in Iraq, with France and the United States wei...