List of Iraq articles
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US Defence Secretary James Mattis arrives by helicopter at Resolute Support headquarters in the Afghan capital Kabul on April 24, 2017. US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit April 24, an American defence official confirmed, hours after his Afghan counterpart resigned over a deadly Taliban attack. Mattis, making his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, was due to meet top officials including President Ashraf Ghani less than two weeks after the US dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on Islamic State hideouts in the country's east. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / JONATHAN ERNST (Photo credit should read JONATHAN ERNST/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: Mattis in Kabul, Taliban Hit U.S. Base; North Korea Warns Washington; Watch Trump Learn About NATO and Terrorism
China Urges Trump to Be Careful; China’s New Aircraft Carrier; Russia’s Carrier Bulking Up; And Lots More
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YPG_and_YPJ_machine_gun_Raqqa_(February_2017) A coherent approach to Raqqa
Iraq’s security forces are in operational pause.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - APRIL 13: An Iraqi Army soldier stands guard atop the Palestine Hotel overlooking Firdos Square where a statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled during the U.S. invasion on April 13, 2015 in Baghdad, Iraq. Baghdad has again come to life at night following the February lifting of the 12-year old evening curfew. Despite the continued risk of terror attacks and an escalating military offensive with ISIS extremists not far from the capitol, Baghdadis have taken to the streets throughout the city. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Iraqi Christian Veteran Fears Deportation After Serving Prison Sentence
Iraqi Christians in the United States cheered Trump’s promises to protect religious minorities. Now many feel betrayed.
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An Iranian military truck carries parts of the S300 missile system during the Army Day parade in Tehran on April 17, 2015. / AFP / CHAVOSH HOMAVANDI (Photo credit should read CHAVOSH HOMAVANDI/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: U.S. to Bolster Iran Deal Enforcement; Pence Again Warns North Korea; Mattis In Middle East
Pentagon Wants In On Yemen; More on New Nork Missiles; Pentagon’s New Nuclear Review Underway; AQ And ISIS Back Together?; And Lots More
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A young boy, wounded by shrapnel in his face and groin, is quickly treated at a clinic in the Samah neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq on Thursday, December 1, 2016. It was unclear if the medics were able to stop the boy's bleeding as he continued to drip blood through the gauze and bandages they wrapped him in before loading him into an ambulance. The Lost Children of Mosul
Thousands of young Iraqis have been trapped, displaced, or killed as the fight to retake the city from the Islamic State enters its seventh month.
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unesco UNESCO Fights Back As ISIS Tries to Stamp Out Culture
In an interview with Foreign Policy, UNESCO chief Irina Bokova talks about why cultural destruction matters in the fight against terrorism.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY RIAD ABOU AWAD Palestinians watch an episode of the Syrian TV drama series "Bab al-Hara" at a cafe in Arab east Jerusalem, after breaking their fast on August 25, 2009. Arabic television is counting on an explosion of Ramadan serials to restore losses from the global recession, but some concerned Muslims are scrambling to pull the faithful back to prayer during the holy month. AFP PHOTO /AHMAD GHARABLI (Photo credit should read AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images) Can Good Television Beat the Islamic State?
How a Saudi television network — with a hand from Hollywood showrunners — is countering the narrative of terrorist propaganda.
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Smoke billows from buildings following a reported air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on October 5, 2016. / AFP / MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: Blackwater Founder And Trump-Putin Go Between; Chemical Attack in Syria; U.S. Bombards AQAP in Yemen
Russian Hack Attack; Jared in the Sandbox; Moscow Blocks U.N. Staffer in Libya
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kushner Jared Kushner Goes to Iraq
The highest-profile trip yet for the president's son-in-law turned amateur diplomat.
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Iraqi families who were displaced by the ongoing operation by Iraqi forces against jihadists of the Islamic State group to retake the city of Mosul, are seen near Qayyarah, south of Mosul, on October 29, 2016. Iraqi paramilitary forces launched an operation to cut the Islamic State group's supply lines between its Mosul bastion and neighbouring Syria, opening a new front in the nearly two-week-old offensive. / AFP / BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) Bombed in Their Homes, Civilians in Mosul Blame Reckless Coalition Forces
As the war to retake the city from the Islamic State intensifies, a terrified population fears the worst.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Retired Army Lt. General Michael Flynn arrives for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the US Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Flynn is appointed National Security Advisor to Trump. Donald J. Trump will become the 45th president of the United States today. (Photo by Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images) SitRep: Flynn Wants Immunity; Three White House Officials Spoke with Nunes; Trump Opens New War Front
ISIS Numbers in Mosul; U.S. Not Interested in Ousting Assad; Putin Getting Impatient About Trump Meeting; USAF, Marines, Looking at Lasers
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Syrians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following reported air strikes by regime forces in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, on August 30, 2015. More than 240,000 people have been killed since Syria's conflict began in March 2011, and half of the country's population has been displaced by the war. AFP PHOTO / ABD DOUMANY / AFP / ABD DOUMANY (Photo credit should read ABD DOUMANY/AFP/Getty Images) There Are No Real ‘Safe Zones’ and There Never Have Been
Recent history shows that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s plan to create “interim zones of stability” in Syria won’t actually help save civilian lives.
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***NETHERLANDS OUT*** Netherlans' F-35C Lightning II joint striker fighter aircraft fly in formation with F16 Fighting Falcon aircrafts during the Dutch Air Force Days at Leeuwarden Air Base in Leeuwarden on June 10, 2016. A Swiss fighter crashed and burst into flames in the Netherlands June 9 after hitting another jet during a training session before an air show, officials said. The pilot from the aerobatics team of the Swiss air force ejected to safety, Dutch and Swiss officials said. / AFP / ANP / Vincent Jannink / Netherlands OUT (Photo credit should read VINCENT JANNINK/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: U.S. Sells More Weapons to Gulf Kingdoms; General Warns of More Civ. Casualties; Trump Out-Drones Obama
Yemen Active on Capitol Hill; Day After Mosul; U.S. Balks at U.N. Peacekeeping; Saudi’s Nascent defense Industry; China’s Spy at State
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Iraqis displaced from the Nablous neighbourhood due to the ongoing fighting against Islamic State (IS) group fighters, flee to the Al-Sumoud neighbourhood on March 22, 2017, as an ongoing offensive by Iraqi forces to retake the city of Mosul from the jihadists continues. Iraqi forces launched a major operation to recapture west Mosul -- the most-populated urban area still held by IS -- on February 19, and have retaken a series of neighbourhoods from the jihadists. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Generals Warn of More Civilian Casualties, As ISIS Wages Desperate Fight in Mosul
American military commanders are warning that more civilians will likely be put at risk during the fight to dislodge the Islamic State from Mosul, underscoring a harsh truth of urban warfare.
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The new Pentagon chief and US Secretary of Defence, James Mattis (L), is welcomed by Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend? upon his arrival in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on February 20, 2017. The United States is not about to plunder Iraq's petroleum reserves, Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, who arrived in Baghdad, said as he sought to soothe partners rattled by President Donald Trump. / AFP / Thomas WATKINS (Photo credit should read THOMAS WATKINS/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: General Says U.S. Likely Involved in Deadly Mosul Airstrike; NATO Changes Posture; Record Number of Airstrikes in Iraq, Syria
Loyalty Tests in the Pentagon; North Korea Making Drones; Tillerson Heading for NATO, Turkey
