List of Iraq articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Protesters Storm Green Zone in Baghdad
For the first time, Baghdad's Green Zone has been breached by protesters.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Who Will Rule Mosul?
The operation to recapture the Iraqi city from the Islamic State has turned into a high-stakes political contest for power. And the shooting hasn’t even started.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: Congress Presses on South China Sea; Commandos Kill Dozens of ISIS Leaders
Trump gonna Trump; Syria stalemate; Chinese CopBots; and lots more
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Look at the U.S. Rockets About to Rock ISIS in Mosul
Precision-guided rockets and artillery have been hitting ISIS fighters for months -- and Washington says there's more on the way.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ISIS Is Using Chemical Weapons Against the Kurds. Why Won’t the U.S. Help?
With ISIS launching chemical attacks, Kurdish leaders in Iraq have issued an appeal to the West for gas masks. But they are still waiting for the gear.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Is Not the Time for an Independent Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurds have enough problems. Breaking away from Baghdad would just make things worse.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Inherent Fallacy of Believing We Can Beat the Islamic State Without U.S. Ground Troops
No one — not Obama, Clinton, Trump, or Cruz — will dare to admit the obvious: We’re going to need to put boots on the ground in Iraq and Syria.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: New Taliban Assault on Kabul, Dozens Killed
More U.S. troops to Iraq; China still in the game; Syria talks stumble; ISIS cash crunch; new Russian stealth bomber; and lots more
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Report: Islamic State Annual Revenue Down Nearly 30 Percent
Islamic State revenues take a 30 percent hit.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Odierno: 50,000 Troops Needed To Defeat the Islamic State
Retired Army Gen. Ray Odierno says 50,000 troops are needed to defeat the Islamic State.
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A member of Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service flashes the "V" for victory sign from inside a US-made Abrams tank on December 29, 2015 on the outskirts of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, about 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, after Iraqi forces recaptured it from the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group. Iraq declared the city of Ramadi liberated from the Islamic State group Monday and raised the national flag over its government complex after clinching a landmark victory against the jihadists. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) Meet the ‘Beast,’ the Little Iraqi Tank That Could
The Pentagon is touting the exploits of a single Iraqi Abrams M1 tank helping to reclaim an Islamic State-held city.
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fp-cengiz-030-e1460042307858 ‘The Peshmerga Isn’t Afraid of ISIS’
Fighting on the front lines, Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers have joined the Iraqi Army in a bloody battle against the Islamic State. But sharing a common enemy doesn’t make them easy allies.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The March to Mosul Continues While Fallujah Starves
Fallujah was once a both a flashpoint and a focus for American troops. Now it's starving as the city that's been under Islamic State siege longer than any in Iraq.
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Farmer Mahmoud Nouri poses on what remains of his house in Drees Khazan. Once a prosperous farming community, it’s been mostly destroyed in the fighting. karkuk, karkuk, Iraq. February 27 2016. The Islamic State’s Scorched-Earth Strategy
As the jihadi group loses ground in northern Iraq, it’s leaving poisoned wells and burnt farms in its wake.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Zaha Hadid and the Modern Middle East
The Iraqi-born architect was the perfect visionary for a Middle East racing toward modernity against the constant pull of the past.
