• A military statement says the "indirect fire" attack occurred Thursday near the city of Mosul but provides no other details. (jpost.com)
  • TEL REEM, Iraq - At first, Iraqi soldiers involved in an operation to capture villages close to Mosul on Friday were in good spirits. (thedailybeast.com)
  • This would open the road to the city of Mosul for future operations.But the combat around Nasr did not go well. (thedailybeast.com)
  • In Iraq, Islamist militants have reportedly taken effective control of the second largest city, capturing key buildings in Mosul and liberating more than 1,000 inmates from the central prison. (democracynow.org)
  • The entire nation of Iraq is under a declared state of emergency on Tuesday after a military assault by Sunni insurgents overpowered government soldiers in the northern city of Mosul. (commondreams.org)
  • The Guardian reports that Iraqi government officials in Mosul 'say the city is now effectively in the hands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group inspired by al-Qaida that has remained in control of parts of Falluja and Ramadi for the past six months. (commondreams.org)
  • The chemical attack on Sunday occurred in a recently-liberated area of Mosul, where the Federal Police and Rapid Response forces are advancing towards the old city which is still roaming with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) jihadists. (rt.com)
  • They helped train Kurdish Peshmerga and Iraqi troops in conventional warfare skills to retake Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. (cbc.ca)
  • The northern city of Mosul is ranked as one of the most dangerous city in the country. (commondreams.org)
  • Al Jazeera's Omar Al Saleh, reporting from Mosul, said: 'This city has witnessed several military operations in the past trying to calm it down. (commondreams.org)
  • The 3,700 soldiers were patrolling in the north around the city of Mosul. (kpbs.org)
  • Further north, the U.S. Army said guerrillas with guns and rocket-propelled grenades ambushed a U.S. convoy in Mosul today, killing one and injuring at least five soldiers. (rferl.org)
  • That June, ISIS captured Mosul-the second-largest city in the country, eighty miles to the east-yet most residents still felt safe. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Before the peshmerga operation, Highway 47 had linked Raqqa, the largest city in Syria held by ISIS, to Mosul. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Their training camp is just 12 miles north of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city and one under the control of ISIS. (foxnews.com)
  • In Mosul , gunmen wounded two soldiers. (antiwar.com)
  • Yesterday, the Chief of Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston advised that Australian soldiers serving in Southern Iraq were engaged by Anti-Iraqi Forces and that an intense exchange of fire ensued. (scoop.co.nz)
  • They killed four people today in one cowardly act to halt progress, but it will only harden the determination of this council, the citizens of Sadr City, the Iraqi Army, and Coalition Forces. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Today, two soldiers and those serving alongside them paid the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the Iraqi and American people in pursuit of this goal. (globalsecurity.org)
  • heroic sacrifice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom saved the lives of three fellow soldiers, the White House said. (foxla.com)
  • Early in the day, Iraqi soldiers led by the commander of the Nineveh operations, Lieutenant General Najim al-Jibouri, seemed to be in high spirits, dancing traditional dances, and preparing to move out with Humvees into the village of Nasr. (thedailybeast.com)
  • They have no morals, and no goals," Iraqi soldier Hussein Samij from Diwaniyah province told The Daily Beast. (thedailybeast.com)
  • One week ago Iraqi soldiers abandoned their base, which forced the United States to send in more Marines in support, and one of them was killed. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Again this time, Iraqi army soldiers almost completely deserted their positions, fearing an ISIS response to their artillery when, in reality, not one mortar shell or bullet hit close to their positions. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The lack of courage of Iraqi soldiers led to laughter among the Kurdish Peshmerga forces stationed nearby in a supporting role. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Unlike the Iraqi soldiers, the Peshmergas did not move one inch, kept on smoking, and were surprised when they saw suddenly all the soldiers fled. (thedailybeast.com)
  • This is not the first time the Iraqi army ran away," said Peshmerga soldier Ali Ahmed, making the case that the Kurds should get more backing. (thedailybeast.com)
  • And I actually spent a fair bit of time in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. (truthdig.com)
  • And so, on the morning of March 31st, 2004, four men identified as civilian contractors were ambushed and killed in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, and then the Bush administration responded with this merciless revenge attack, laid siege to the city, killed hundreds of people, displaced tens of thousands of others. (truthdig.com)
  • Thousands of people fled the city ahead of the Iraqi advance. (news.az)
  • In Kirkuk, a bomb ripped through an army patrol, killing three Iraqi soldiers and injuring three others, police said. (trend.az)
  • Iraqis at a checkpoint near the Iraqi city of Arbil on Tuesday. (commondreams.org)
  • At least six Iraqi soldiers have suffered inhalation problems following a chemical attack launched by Islamic State on Sunday. (rt.com)
  • Some 400,000 people are trapped in the area controlled by extremists, as Iraqi forces make slow progress in liberating the rest of the city from the jihadists. (rt.com)
  • Most have voiced opposition to the US occupation, while some said they wanted to see for themselves the real effects of the Bush administration's policies in the country and the conditions facing both US soldiers and the Iraqi people. (wsws.org)
  • Suarez brought with him to Baghdad some 2,000 letters written by US and Mexican children to Iraqi schoolchildren and American soldiers. (wsws.org)
  • Annabelle Valencia, of Tucson, Arizona, who has two children stationed in Iraq, said that she went to Iraq both to try to see them and to express solidarity with the Iraqi people. (wsws.org)
  • At the urging of the U.S., the Western military alliance will conduct a 'train the trainer' mission to better develop the skills of the Iraqi army to stabilize the country and prevent the re-emergence of groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). (cbc.ca)
  • Canada has had a small contingent of combat engineers in Iraq - already serving under the NATO flag and separate from Operation Impact - instructing Iraqi forces on how to clear unexploded bombs and booby traps. (cbc.ca)
  • It said several hundred US and Iraqi soldiers took part in the operation on Monday to reopen the water supply to the town of Khalis. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The statement did not say whether any US or Iraqi soldiers were killed. (bbc.co.uk)
  • As we go forward, we will thin out lines across Iraq in order to reduce the risk and sustain stability through a deliberate transition of responsibilities to the Iraqi security forces. (commondreams.org)
  • These soldiers will train and equip Iraqi forces and protect provincial reconstruction teams, international projects and diplomatic staff. (commondreams.org)
  • In Iraq, U.S. and Iraqi forces are trying to bring the violence under control in some of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods. (kpbs.org)
  • Baghdad, 7 November 2003 (RFE/RL) -- The U.S. Army said a U.S. helicopter crashed today near the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit. (rferl.org)
  • When ISIS began seizing territory in eastern Syria and then across northern Iraq, two summers ago, troops with the Iraqi Kurdish armed forces, or peshmerga, were deployed in the town. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Members of the Iraqi army and Shiite fighters launch a mortar toward Islamic State militants on the outskirts of Falluja, Iraq, May 19, 2015. (ibtimes.com)
  • Ramadi's loss is the most serious setback for Iraqi forces in almost a year and has cast doubt on the effectiveness of the U.S. strategy of air strikes to help Baghdad roll back Islamic State, which holds a third each of Iraq and adjacent Syria. (ibtimes.com)
  • This group's foot-soldiers are 95% Iraqi, but its leadership is overwhelmingly foreign. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • BAGHDAD - Two Coalition forces soldiers and two civilians serving with Coalition forces were killed after an explosion inside the District Advisory Council building in a southern neighborhood of Sadr City district at approximately 9:30 a.m. today. (globalsecurity.org)
  • This was the fourth meeting of this district council, lead by hard working Iraqis determined to make a difference and set Sadr City off on the right path. (globalsecurity.org)
  • In Sadr City , two bombs killed two people and wounded 13 more . (antiwar.com)
  • A sniper killed a policeman in Sadr City . (antiwar.com)
  • In Shia working-class areas such as Sadr City, controlled by the Mehdi Army, militia Islamic dress became obligatory. (independent.co.uk)
  • Skirmishes between U.S. troops and al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army militia have grown deadlier recently as the military steps up pressure on the cleric while trying to avoid an offensive in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. (ksl.com)
  • Coalition troops also raided and occupied al-Sadr's office in Diwaniyah, an operation to 'reduce militia influence in the city,' Kimmitt said. (ksl.com)
  • Biden called him "a soldier's soldier, who literally walked through fire for his troops. (hppr.org)
  • U.S. troops were continuing operations in the town of Khalis, north of Baghdad, where soldiers detained more than 20 suspected members of a crime ring. (rferl.org)
  • Meanwhile, the Polish Defense Ministry today said that Polish troops in Iraq had been attacked twice during the last two days, but no injuries were reported. (rferl.org)
  • The soldiers were mistakenly killed by an airstrike that was called in by U.S. troops to beat back a Taliban ambush. (democracynow.org)
  • The soldier, from the 4th Battalion The Rifles, died after the attack in the southern city of Basra, where the majority of British troops are based. (jpost.com)
  • In response to his military's defeat in the nation's second largest city, Iraq President Nuri al-Maliki declared the national emergency as his government was seen scrambling to respond to the escalating internal violence that has gripped the country since the last U.S troops left the country in late 2011. (commondreams.org)
  • This is the second time in as much days that IS terrorists have used chemical weapons in an effort to stop government troops' advance on the old city. (rt.com)
  • In the wake of his son's death, Suarez, 48, has become a vocal opponent of US policy in Iraq, denouncing the intervention as an "illegal war" and demanding the immediate withdrawal of all US troops. (wsws.org)
  • Also participating in the 10-member delegation are parents of occupation troops, two wives of soldiers based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who are in Iraq and four veterans of the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars, two of them with children also on active duty in Iraq. (wsws.org)
  • The NATO training mission in Iraq will be commanded by a Canadian major-general, and Canadian troops will provide the bulk of the headquarters staff. (cbc.ca)
  • It had committed to keeping Canadian troops in Iraq until 2019, but since the battlefield defeat of ISIS, there have been questions about what they will do. (cbc.ca)
  • In an advance copy of his address, Odierno said: 'We have approximately 124,000 troops and 11 Combat Teams operating in Iraq today. (commondreams.org)
  • The latest casualties from guerrilla attacks come one day after the Pentagon began alerting thousands of National Guard, Marines, and reserve troops to prepare for duty in Iraq next year as part of a rotation of forces. (rferl.org)
  • Pentagon officials said under the rotation plan, the overall number of U.S. troops in Iraq will actually fall from the current number of around 132,000 to 105,000 by May. (rferl.org)
  • While Baghdad is the focus of the Bush administration's Iraq "surge," additional US troops have been deployed to Baqubah due to the intensity of the insurgency in the surrounding Diyala province. (wsws.org)
  • The attack highlights how the tactics being employed as part of the Bush administration's escalation in Iraq are placing American troops at far greater risk. (wsws.org)
  • Previous fighting between Sunni militias and the Iraq Army in Fallujah and other areas closer to the Syrian border have exposed the deep tensions and bloody rivalries that remain in the aftermath of the U.S. occupation of Iraq that began in 2003. (commondreams.org)
  • Michael Lopercio, a restaurant owner from Tempe, Arizona, came because his son Anthony is an Army private stationed near the strife-torn city of Fallujah. (wsws.org)
  • Consider our recent problems in Fallujah and Najaf, where our forces were powerful but impotent, capable of leveling a city, but uncertain how to make peace and win the support of the people. (technologyreview.com)
  • Mousa was born and raised in Iraq's capital city. (ausa.org)
  • The initial operation to liberate Iraq's second largest city began exactly six months ago on October 16. (rt.com)
  • At least 15 Iraqis and a U.S. soldier were killed. (ksl.com)
  • Gen. Geoffrey Miller also apologized for the 'illegal or unauthorized acts' committed by a 'small number of our soldiers' at Abu Ghraib, where photographs showed stripped and hooded Iraqis being abused by U.S. guards. (ksl.com)
  • Outside the city of Kufa, U.S. forces attacked a van where Iraqis were seen unloading weapons. (ksl.com)
  • One result of that invasion and the subsequent occupation, as well as of the wars and civil wars that followed: the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis , Syrians , and Lebanese, while major areas of Syria and some parts of Iraq have fallen into the hands of armed supporters of al-Qaeda or, in one major case, a group that didn't find that organization extreme enough . (commondreams.org)
  • Privately, many other officers and soldiers say Iraqis have little trust in the national police. (kpbs.org)
  • He wanted to be with his fellow soldiers and help Iraqis. (kpbs.org)
  • Moreover, the group is heavily urbanized, and town-dwellers -- even urban Iraqis -- may as well be foreigners as far as some tribal leaders are concerned. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Baghdad, 26 August 2003 (RFE/RL) -- A U.S. soldier was killed and two others wounded today in an explosion in the town of Hamariyah, northwest of Baghdad. (rferl.org)
  • Vieira de Mello, the UN's top envoy in Iraq, was among at least 23 people who died in a bomb attack on the UN's headquarters in Baghdad last week. (rferl.org)
  • Update: 3rd Soldier Steps Forward Wikileaks in Baghdad Another former soldier of Bravo Company 2-16 (2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment) has said in a radio interview that a controversial battalion commander ordered soldiers to open fire on. (ivaw.org)
  • A delegation of family members of US soldiers and military veterans arrived in Baghdad Sunday on a two-week tour. (wsws.org)
  • Another nine people were killed on Monday, when a suicide bomber blew himself up after evening prayers in a mosque in the town of Falluja, west of Baghdad. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The city, to the east of Baghdad, has been the scene of increasing fighting between Sunni-based guerrillas and the US military over the past several months. (wsws.org)
  • Rami Aboud, who works with his uncle running a drink shop at the Jordan interchange in the Yarmouk district in west Baghdad, says he gives the police and soldiers 15 cans of beer a night or the equivalent in cash. (independent.co.uk)
  • In Falluja , two bombs wounded an officer and a soldier . (antiwar.com)
  • Atkins, 31, of Bozeman, Montana, then used his body to shield fellow soldiers from the explosion near a mosque in Al Yusufiyah. (foxla.com)
  • One died after rescuing his fellow soldiers from a burning Bradley Fighting Vehicle in Iraq. (hppr.org)
  • Despite the severe second and third degree burns covering the majority of his body, Sergeant First Class Cashe persevered through the pain to encourage his fellow Soldiers and ensure they received needed medical care. (hppr.org)
  • He said that he personally did not experience problems from his fellow soldiers after he became open about his sexuality. (gaycitynews.com)
  • Josh Hunt, an Army National Guard member who recently returned from a year in Iraq, takes down a yellow ribbon put up in his honor at the Elmwood church, Lafayette, Ind. (christianchronicle.org)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - An Army staff sergeant killed in Iraq while trying to subdue a suicide bomber will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award for battlefield valor. (foxla.com)
  • He re-enlisted in the Army in 2005 after attending the University of Montana and deployed to Iraq again in 2006. (foxla.com)
  • After several years, the Army assigned him to be a Tactical Combat Casualty Care instructor, where he taught combat medic skills to other soldiers who were already in the "68 Whiskey" career field and preparing to deploy. (health.mil)
  • Explosions struck several army patrols on Thursday in different parts of Iraq, killing nine soldiers and injuring another six, said police sources, dpa reported. (trend.az)
  • As the Iraq Army retreated, reports indicate that the anti-government militias have seized military bases and prisons in the city, releasing more than a thousand prisoners who were held. (commondreams.org)
  • Lieutenant Colonel JOHN NORRIS (Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army): I'm Colonel Norris, commander of the Stryker soldiers. (kpbs.org)
  • The U.S. Army says six soldiers were killed and two injured when the Black Hawk helicopter went down. (rferl.org)
  • Even though Maupin's Army Reserve unit has returned to its home station of Bartonville, Ill., Army officials said other soldiers in Iraq will never stop the search for Maupin. (warchronicle.com)
  • It's clear that the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 unleashed a brutal, bloody, Sunni-Shiite civil war across the region. (commondreams.org)
  • Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Sunni extremist groups, and Shia militant groups continue to pose threats to stability as they seek to exploit political fissures, destabilise the government and undermine the progress made to date,' he is expected to say. (commondreams.org)
  • At the height of the Sunni insurgency, al-Qa'ida in Iraq was notorious for its savage punishments of those offending Islamic social mores. (independent.co.uk)
  • Trump has demanded NATO do more to counter militants in Iraq, but European members of the alliance have been reluctant to undertake a larger role following the decade-long, open-ended commitment in Afghanistan, which included both a combat and training mission for local forces. (cbc.ca)
  • The heaviest fighting in the south came in the holy city of Karbala, where coalition forces raided a hotel, the local former Baath Party headquarters and the regional governor's office in search of stockpiled weapons, Brig. (ksl.com)
  • The U.S. soldier died when a dump truck tried to ram a checkpoint in Karbala, the military said. (ksl.com)
  • Elsewhere in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslims are attending a big religious festival in Karbala. (bbc.co.uk)
  • one Peshmerga soldier asked me, with evident disgust. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Canadian special forces soldiers, left and right, speak with Peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq last year. (cbc.ca)
  • A Reuters reporter saw policemen swapping their uniforms for plain clothes and discarding their weapons before fleeing the city. (commondreams.org)
  • The bodies of soldiers and policemen, some of them mutilated, littered the streets. (commondreams.org)
  • Soldiers are not good policemen. (technologyreview.com)
  • TAMPA - A St. Petersburg, Florida soldier is finally reuniting with a dog she rescued while she was deployed in Iraq in 2017. (abc15.com)
  • Sometimes, the soldiers round up possible detainees, secure the area and wait for their trucks to move in to transport the suspects and found weaponry. (stripes.com)
  • As the day lightened, the trucks drew in closer to collect the soldiers and the detainees. (stripes.com)
  • Air Chief Marshal Houston said this incident was a reminder of the dangerous environment in which Australian Forces are operating in Iraq and Afghanistan and that it illustrates the superb leadership, training and equipment that Australian soldiers receive in preparation for these operations. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Another was killed in Afghanistan as he used his body as a shield to protect a helicopter evacuating soldiers after a firefight. (hppr.org)
  • Five U.S. servicemembers and at least one Afghan soldier have been killed in what appears to be one of the deadliest instances of friendly fire of the war in Afghanistan. (democracynow.org)
  • This article briefly summarizes the health care needs of service members returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, describes VA's approaches to addressing their needs, and outlines VA's evolving vision for how to apply principles of population health management to ensure prompt and effective response to the postdeployment needs of veterans returning from future conflicts. (cdc.gov)
  • CLIA blood test results were ascertained in 475 male veterans with and without PTSD and TBI following warzone exposure in Iraq or Afghanistan. (bvsalud.org)
  • Before I accepted the job, I was very nervous because we had heard bad things about the American soldiers from the media, especially after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal," he said. (ausa.org)
  • But the staging before the hunt was out of the ordinary for the soldiers with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division. (stripes.com)
  • August 28, 2010 By Robert Jensen When the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division rolled out of Iraq last week, the colonel commanding the brigade told a reporter that his soldiers were "leaving as heroes. (ivaw.org)
  • NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- U.S.-led forces launched their biggest assault yet against militiamen loyal to a radical Shiite cleric, raiding hideouts in several cities Wednesday and clashing with gunmen in the world's biggest cemetery. (ksl.com)
  • Some soldiers of the coalition forces have refused to participate in the Iraq War. (wikipedia.org)
  • One Coalition forces soldier and three DAC members were also wounded in the attack. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Church's actions are attributed with saving the lives of at least five Soldiers and four civilians. (warchronicle.com)
  • In Syria, Islamic State fighters raised their flag over an ancient citadel in the historic city of Palmyra, pictures posted online overnight by the group's supporters showed. (ibtimes.com)
  • Hundreds of fighters, believed to be part of the al-Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, launched the assault overnight, causing police and soldiers to flee from their posts. (democracynow.org)
  • Erby, after the the largest city in Northern Iraq, Erbil and Kasima, the Arabic name for "beauty and elegance. (abc15.com)
  • The IED explosion killed two U.S. Soldiers, wounded five others and rendered their vehicle inoperable. (warchronicle.com)
  • Yet one hour later, his men were not so joyful, when most soldiers ran in panic, fleeing in their Humvees, fearing ISIS mortar attacks. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Overall, attacks in the city from June through August last year compared to the same period this year shows a drop of 44 per cent, but residents still live under a constant threat of violence. (commondreams.org)
  • E-mails read by Defence officials this afternoon are clearly not from soldiers involved in the contact. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Instead of sowing human rights and democracy in Iraq, as was promised by Bush administration officials and their supporters leading up to and during the war, the country is now, according to Engelhardt, 'a riven, embattled , dilapidated country' wracked by violence. (commondreams.org)
  • It's up in flames and death is everywhere,' said Amina Ibrahim, a resident of the city who spoke with a Reuters reporter as she fled north from the city with her children. (commondreams.org)
  • The U.S. Central Command said the soldiers' convoy was hit by a roadside explosive device. (rferl.org)
  • U.S.-led forces have conducted a further 15 airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria since Thursday, concentrating on targets near Ramadi, the U.S. military said. (ibtimes.com)
  • A British soldier died in Iraq on Friday after a roadside bomb attack, the Ministry of Defense said. (jpost.com)
  • Cashe, who grew up in grew up in Oviedo, Fla., is the first Black soldier to be awarded the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. (hppr.org)
  • In town, the main roads had been cleaned up, and we were able to drive several miles past the southern outskirts, to a village called Domiz, where bulldozers and backhoes were digging new trenches, heaping the red soil into high berms. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • The occupation forces in Iraq suffered one of their largest casualties in a single attack on Monday when suicide bombers penetrated the defences of a recently established US patrol base on the outskirts of Baqubah. (wsws.org)
  • In Adhamiya , gunmen killed two soldiers and wounded another . (antiwar.com)
  • Several weeks later gunmen, who locals believe came from al-Qa'ida in Iraq, shot him dead with his son and set his shop ablaze. (independent.co.uk)
  • Church identified the assistant commanders vehicle amidst heavy black smoke and flaming wreckage of burning fuel tankers to find two more wounded Soldiers and four civilian truck drivers,his citation reads, adding that after a hasty triage and treating a sucking chest wound, he carried the Soldier over to one of the recovery vehicles while exposing himself to continuous enemy fire from both sides of the road. (warchronicle.com)
  • Robert Stout, 23, of Utica, Ohio, a decorated veteran of the Iraq war, is challenging the military's policy of excluding out gays and lesbians from service. (gaycitynews.com)
  • Tom Engelhardt, editor of the TomDispatch website, published an extensive, and particularly relevant, essay early on Tuesday in which he laid out the case for why the failure of U.S. foreign policy--specifically the unprovoked invasion of Iraq in 2003--deserves the bulk of the blame for the sectarian violence and political volatility that has now engulfed the country. (commondreams.org)
  • Engelhardt was not alone in placing the blame for the current state of Iraq on the 2003 U.S. invasion. (commondreams.org)
  • While she and her husband initially backed the invasion of Iraq, Annabelle has since turned against the US occupation, participating in antiwar demonstrations. (wsws.org)
  • Violence has fallen sharply in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion. (commondreams.org)
  • Iraq has been successively ravaged by the 1980-1988 war with Iran, crippling sanctions after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, internal conflict after the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, and the transnational jihadists of Islamic State after 2014. (crisisgroup.org)
  • Among them are men who are thought to be adherents of Al Qaeda, which has developed a following in Iraq since the US invasion. (wsws.org)
  • Four soldiers were wounded by a blast in Dibis . (antiwar.com)
  • This comes after the 2 November helicopter crash (pictured), in which 16 U.S. soldiers died. (rferl.org)
  • He was a 21-year-old Marine killed in Iraq. (wshu.org)
  • Meanwhile, US forces in Iraq said on Thursday that a US soldier was shot in northern Iraq on Tuesday, the second soldier killed since the beginning of the year. (trend.az)
  • Canada will assume command of a NATO training mission in Iraq for its first year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday. (cbc.ca)
  • Shias gather in the city each year to mark the birthday of the Imam Mahdi in the Ninth Century. (bbc.co.uk)
  • BOWMAN: The Stryker unit has already spent a year in Iraq. (kpbs.org)
  • Islamic State destroyed ancient monuments and antiquities they see as idolatrous in areas of Iraq they captured last year. (ibtimes.com)
  • The raid was atypical for the soldiers because they parked so close to their targets. (stripes.com)
  • For this raid, just a kilometer outside of Forward Operating Base Kalsu, the soldiers drove right up to the houses and merely walked down the driveways toward their targets. (stripes.com)
  • On Saturday, Lindsay took the soldiers on an early-morning raid that, in reality, started at 8 p.m. the night before. (stripes.com)
  • It has included up to 200 special forces soldiers, conducting training in the country's north. (cbc.ca)
  • Two months ago, Masoud Barzani, the President of the Kurdish regional government, held a press conference on a hill overlooking Sinjar, a town in the northwestern corner of Iraq. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Sandate released a written statement in prison about his opposition to the war in Iraq. (wikipedia.org)
  • During this time the financial crisis starting in 2008 had begun alongside a national housing crisis, as well as the Iraq war. (lu.se)
  • The spokesman for the Joint Operation Command in Iraq, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, told the Associated Press that six soldiers suffered "breathing problems" from the attack. (rt.com)
  • In a descriptive, cross-sectional study, anti-HEV antibody was measured in patients referred to the 2 haemodialysis centres in Zanjan city, Islamic Republic of Iran. (who.int)
  • When soldiers discovered how fluent he was, he was tapped to become an interpreter and translator. (ausa.org)
  • Turnbaugh says that despite the loss of two players, he has current team members who are more determined than ever to go to Iraq. (wshu.org)
  • Whose lives were so valuable that the Bush administration felt it was necessary to go in and essentially wipe out an entire city? (truthdig.com)
  • President Bush told us on January 28, 2003 that there was intelligence showing that Iraq was helping and protecting terrorists and that Saddam Hussein could give weapons of mass destruction to them. (ivaw.org)
  • List from these references: and public information sourced from List of Resister Profiles at "Courage to Resist" website which gives evidence that these military personnel are refusing to participate in the Iraq war. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Commander of OBG(W), Lieutenant Colonel Mick Mahy said that the soldiers "acted with great discipline, exceptional courage and used well executed tactics" to safely withdraw from the area. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Leading the training mission in Iraq - along with a NATO battle group in Latvia - also gives Trudeau ammunition to rebut criticism levelled by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been insisting allies pay more and meet the alliance's defence spending targets. (cbc.ca)
  • I was afraid that the soldiers might hurt me. (ausa.org)
  • Other people have warned us that it is not safe to travel to Iraq, but we wanted to show that ordinary Americans like peace," Suarez added. (wsws.org)