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Iran is sending drones, weapons to Iraq: report
Jun 25, 2014 (AFP)
Iran is secretly flying surveillance drones over Iraq and sending military equipment there to help Baghdad in its fight against Sunni insurgents, The New York T...
Iraq's Sadr warns will 'shake the ground' against militants
Jun 25, 2014 (AFP)
Powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Wednesday voiced opposition to US military advisers who have begun meeting with Iraqi commanders, and warned that his sup...
Air raids kill 38 as Iraq forces hold off assaults
Jun 24, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi air strikes killed at least 38 people on Tuesday as security forces held off attacks on a strategic town and an oil refinery, officials and witnesses said...
Kerry to push Kurds on Iraqi unity
Jun 24, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi forces held off attacks on a key town and an oil refinery as top US diplomat John Kerry pushed Tuesday for unity in a conflict the UN says has killed near...
Jihadists fight Iraq battle on ground and online
Jun 24, 2014 (AFP)
A powerful jihadist group pushing toward Baghdad is waging a parallel war online, flooding social media with updates and riding the football World Cup frenzy to...
Follow the money: Iraq jihadists build up war chest
Jun 23, 2014 (AFP)
To trace the dramatic rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the jihadists that have spearheaded an offensive that has captured swathes of territory,...
Militants seize more Iraq towns as US warns on spillover
Jun 23, 2014 (AFP)
Sunni militants have advanced in western Iraq and killed 21 people after security forces withdrew from several towns, as US President Barack Obama warned the of...
Don't write Iraq off yet
Jun 23, 2014 (UPI)
The apparent suddenness of the capture of Mosul, Tikrit and other Iraqi cities by Sunni insurgents fighting under the banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sy...
Iraq soldier who fled post seeks redemption
Jun 23, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi soldier Bassil Hassan says he wept as he abandoned his base in the face of a Sunni militant advance and is desperate to redeem himself by returning to the...
Bombs kills five Iraqi Kurdish fighters
Jun 23, 2014 (AFP)
Two roadside bombs struck a patrol in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh on Monday, killing five Kurdish security forces members, a spokesman said. The blasts,...
Kerry backs Iraq against 'existential' militant threat
Jun 23, 2014 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday pledged "intense" support for Iraq against the "existential threat" of a major militant offensive pushing toward Bagh...
Iraq militants 'turning back clock' in captured Mosul
Jun 22, 2014 (AFP)
In the two weeks since it was seized by Sunni militants, some residents of the northern Iraq city of Mosul feel the clock has been turned back hundreds of years...
Militants seize more Iraq towns as US presses unity
Jun 22, 2014 (AFP)
Sunni militants advanced in western Iraq and killed 21 people after security forces left several towns, while America's top diplomat called Sunday for the count...
Iraqis seek shelter from battles and privation
Jun 22, 2014 (AFP)
On a dusty patch of land off a highway in northern Iraq, Faisal watches his three-week-old son cry in the tent that is now his home. The temperature hovers arou...
Maliki's Iraq: Kerry's new diplomatic mission impossible
Jun 21, 2014 (AFP)
Secretary of State John Kerry this weekend plunges back into the tumultuous Middle East seeking to overcome sectarian divisions in Iraq amid US frustration with...
US vets anguished as militants advance in Iraq
Jun 21, 2014 (AFP)
American veterans have watched the lightning advance of Sunni extremists in Iraq with anguish, prompting them to wonder if their sacrifices in combat were for n...
Iraq Shiite cleric says Sunni militants must be ousted
Jun 21, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq's top Shiite cleric has urged all of its people to unite and expel Sunni Muslim insurgents, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki came under growing pressure at...
Iraqis, Saudis call shots in Raqa, ISIL's Syrian 'capital'
Jun 19, 2014 (AFP)
With Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters, flags and emblems everywhere, there is no mistaking who controls the north Syria city of Raqa. Fighters from...
India says knows location of abducted workers in Iraq
Jun 19, 2014 (AFP)
India said Thursday it knows the location of its 40 workers abducted in violence-torn Iraq, as several of their families said they spoke with the captured men w...
The people who duped the United States into invading Iraq
Jun 19, 2014 (UPI)
It was dinnertime at the Vice President's house on Massachusetts Avenue eleven months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The discussion centered on the need to g...
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