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At least 339 people were killed today and 91 more were wounded. This figure includes 200 militants that the Iraqi government says were killed in Anbar province.
Steinitz: Cooperation Would 'Soften' US Position on Iran
The Pentagon is pushing back against a State Department assertion that there is the potential for a military coordination with Iran to help Iraq combat violent al Qaeda-inspired Sunni extremists.
The Bush/Obama nation-building effort in Iraq was ALWAYS going to be a bloody, expensive failure.
This has been a sad event for US taxpayers. Looting by an army during war occurs often in history. Here is a list of the reported ISIL plunder.
As Iraq descends into chaos again, more than a decade after "Mission Accomplished," media commentators and politicians have mostly agreed upon calling the war a "mistake."
US Adds 275 Marines to Defense of Embassy
White House Insists They Won't Count as 'Combat Troops'
Described as covert aid to insurgents targeting al-Assad
300 armed American forces are being positioned in and around Iraq to help secure US assets as President Obama decides on options for combating fast-moving Islamic insurgents, including airstrikes or special forces.
Jihadi blitz is like the Tet Offensive, Paul says, and it's time to stop helping Iraq's government.
The US said it was evacuating some staff from its embassy and beefing up security as deadly explosions rocked the Iraqi capital and militants released graphic images appearing to show its fighters massacring captured Iraqi soldiers.
Dozens of extremists wielding automatic weapons attacked a small Kenyan coastal town for hours, assaulting the police station, setting two hotels on fire, and spraying bullets into the street. At least 48 people were killed,
"As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanista
Will Obama try to re-fight the Iraq war?
Billions Spent on Never-Used Gear
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has revealed for the first time that Iran has made a detailed proposal to the P5+1 group of states aimed at ensuring that no stockpile of low-enriched uranium would be available for "breakout" through enrichment
Officials say three planeloads of Americans are being evacuated from a major Iraqi air base in Sunni territory north of Baghdad to escape potential threats from a fast-moving insurgency.
Obama Won't Rule Out Anything in Aiding Maliki Govt
The corporate media in the United States is now calling for re-intervention in Iraq following the success of a former al-Qaeda affiliate in taking over the northwestern part of the country. CNN, forever a trusty asset of the Pentagon ...
Militants in Iraq have taken control of the cities of Tikrit and Mosul. Witnesses in those cities say military forces there, charged with defending the cities, laid down their arms and surrendered without a fight. Tikrit has a population of aroun
It no longer makes sense to think of the civil conflicts in Iraq and Syria as separate events:
An Israeli strike against Iran "could happen in a matter of months," Sen. Ted Cruz reportedly told a US Jewish security group.
Nuri al-Maliki, the Bush neocon choice to run post-invasion Iraq, is offering citizens weapons to fight al-Qaeda affiliate the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).
Sunni insurgents advancing on Baghdad after taking Mosul have captured the city of Tikrit, the home town of Saddam Hussein, as government forces disintegrate and fail to offer resistance.
It appears that the best diversion from Obama's latest bevy of scandals, including the VA snafu and the Bergdahl fiasco, will be yet another war, one which Iraq just gave the green light for.
Iraqi Kurds seized control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, while surging Sunni Islamist rebels advanced towards Baghdad, as the central government's army abandoned its posts in a rapid collapse that has lost control of the north.
Predominantly Shiite Muslim Iran will combat the "violence and terrorism" of Sunni extremists who have launched an anti-government offensive in neighboring Iraq, President Hassan Rouhani warned on Thursday.
It seems like only yesterday Iraq's prime minister was celebrating as the last American soldiers left Iraq. Now, with al Qaeda threatening to take Baghdad, Maliki's government is quietly asking at least some troops return.
TIKRIT Iraq (Reuters) - Sunni rebels from an al Qaeda splinter group overran the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday and closed in on the biggest oil refinery in the country, making further gains in their rapid military advance against the Shi'ite-led
