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A Marine who was declared a deserter nearly 10 years ago after disappearing in Iraq and then returning to the U.S. claiming he had been kidnapped, only to disappear again, is back in U.S. custody, officials said Sunday.
It's worth listening to those who've devoted their lives to studying war and the region.
Iraq received the first batch of Sukhoi warplanes from Russia as it pressed a counter-attack Sunday against Sunni militants whose offensive threatens to tear the country apart. The arrival of the fighter jets comes with Iraqi forces, backed by aerial
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in Damascus his country "will not remain passive" as jihadists push an offensive in Syria's neighbor Iraq. "Russia will not remain passive to the attempts by some groups to spread
Iraqi government forces battled Sunni rebels for control of the country's biggest refinery on Thursday as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki waited for a U.S. response to an appeal for air strikes to beat back the threat to Baghdad.
ExxonMobil has carried out a "major evacuation,'' and BP had evacuated 20 percent of its staff, the head of Iraq's state-run South Oil Company said Wednesday.
The Fall of Iraq - What You Aren't Being Told
As stories circulated of Iraqi cities falling to Sunni militia groups, I was struck by the words of Former Marine Staff Sgt. Keith Widaman, who spent a tour in Iraq: "When I left in April 2009, I said, 'In five years there'll be a civil war.'"
Jihadi extremists and Sunni tribes have commandeered north Iraq and are fighting Iran-backed Shia militiamen and volunteers within 50 miles of Baghdad.
By Julie Wilson: Monday, the USS Mesa Verde equipped with 550 Marines entered into the Persian Gulf in preparation for a possible operation in Iraq.
As in recent days, there is a lot of news to cover.
Saudi Arabia warned Wednesday of the risks of a civil war in Iraq with unpredictable consequences for the region, after Sunni militants seized large areas from Shiite-led government forces.
The situation in Iraq is serious, and is probably going to get worse before it gets better.
The group, led since 2010 by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, now controls vast swathes of land across Iraq and Syria
Some 5,000 Iranians have pledged online to defend Iraq's Shiite Muslim holy sites against Sunni extremists who are waging war against the Baghdad government, a report said on Tuesday.
Events in Iraq are changing by the hour, now that US combat boots are "on the ground", expect them to change even faster.
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."
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.
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.
"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
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.
It no longer makes sense to think of the civil conflicts in Iraq and Syria as separate events:
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
