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The Pentagon has no clue how many weapons it has lost to ISIS
This isn't good. By Max J. Rosenthal.
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Iraq: Possible War Crimes by Shia Militia
(Beirut) – Members of Shia militias, who the Iraqi government has included among its state forces, abducted and killed scores of Sunni residents in a central Iraq town and demolished Sunni homes, stores, and mosques following January 11, 2016 bombings claimed by the extremist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS. None of those responsible have been brought to justice.
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Disappointed With Europe, Thousands of Iraqi Migrants Return Home
Night after night, Mohammed al-Jabiry tossed and turned in his bed at a refugee center in Finland, comparing life in Europe with life in Baghdad. After many sleepless nights, he decided to come home. “In Iraq, I can find a girl to marry,” Mr. Jabiry, 23, reasoned. “And my mom is here.” There were little things, too, that drove him to return, like the high price of cigarettes and the chillier weather. “In Europe, I was isolated,” he said.
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ISIS beheads 15-year-old Iraqi boy for listening to pop music
Just when you thought Islamic State had reached its limit of depravity, it manages to outdo itself. According to Kurdish media reports, the jihadist group that has captured wide swaths of Syria and Iraq beheaded a 15-year-old boy in Mosul for the crime of listening to Western pop music. Reports cite officials in the northern Iraqi city as saying that the boy, Ayham Hussein, was discovered by ISIS henchman as he was listening to a portable compact disc player.
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America's unlearned lesson: the forgotten truth about why we invaded Iraq
Perhaps the tensest moment in Saturday's Republican presidential debate came when Donald Trump finally said something so outrageous that the other candidates onstage and even the debate audience closed ranks against him. Here is what Trump did: He accused George W. Bush of launching the Iraq War based on a lie...
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Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1m people
Iraqi engineers involved in building the Mosul dam 30 years ago have warned that the risk of its imminent collapse and the consequent death toll could be even worse than reported. They pointed out that pressure on the dam’s compromised structure was building up rapidly as winter snows melted and more water flowed into the reservoir, bringing it up to its maximum capacity, while the sluice gates normally used to relieve that pressure were jammed shut.
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Kerry determines IS group committing genocide in Iraq, Syria
The Obama administration on Thursday formally concluded the Islamic State group is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, a declaration long sought by Congress and human rights organizations but likely to change little in the conflict against the extremists. The determination, for which Congress had set a Thursday deadline, does not obligate the United States to take additional action against IS militants and does not...
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New U.S. base in Iraq draws more Islamic State fire, militia threat
A fledgling U.S. base in northern Iraq came under attack again on Monday from Islamic State and even drew a threat from an Iran-backed Shi'ite militia, two days after a U.S. Marine there was killed in a rocket attack. Firebase Bell, as the artillery outpost is called, is the first independent U.S. base of its kind in Iraq since the return of American forces to the country in 2014 and is the latest sign of deepening U.S. military involvement in the conflict.
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Troop count in Iraq doesn’t include all forces, Pentagon chief acknowledges
The Pentagon counts 3,870 troops, but the real number is higher. By Kristina Wong.
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ISIS claims attack on stadium in Iraq that killed 29
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a soccer stadium south of the Iraqi capital on Friday, killing 29 people and wounding 60, security officials said, as the military announced new gains on the ground against ISIS.
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Iraq militants claim to put Isis fighter's fate to vote on Instagram
Account @iraqiswat, claiming to be that of Iraq Special Operation Force, posted an image to its 80,400 followers appearing to show a captured Isis fighter.
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Fallujah crisis: 'We are being left to slow death'
Controlled by ISIL and besieged by government forces, residents struggle to survive amid shortage of food supplies.
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Suicide bomb kills at least 14 south of Baghdad
Iraqi officials say a suicide attack south of Baghdad has killed at least 14 people. A police officer says the suicide bomber blew himself up on Monday inside a restaurant in Dhi Qar province that is frequented by Shiite paramilitary militia fighters. He added that at least 27 others were wounded in the attack that targeted a famous restaurant on the main highway that links Baghdad with the southern provinces.
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50,000 Iraqis in besieged Fallujah face starvation
UN urges Iraqi forces to open routes for humanitarian aid while calling on ISIL to allow civilians to leave.
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U.N. says food situation in Iraq's Falluja extremely worrying
The food situation for 60,000 civilians trapped in the besieged Iraqi city of Falluja is extremely worrying and likely to deteriorate unless aid gets into the city, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Monday.
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The Hell After ISIS
Even as the militant group loses ground in Iraq, many Sunnis say they have no hope for peace. One family’s story shows why. By Anand Gopal.
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Hundreds of protesters have stormed Iraq's parliament
Hundreds of protesters have stormed Iraq’s parliament building, waving flags and taking selfies, in a demonstration against a government deadlock. Supporters of the Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr broke through gates of the protected Green Zone in Baghdad after politicians failed to convene to vote in a new cabinet.
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This Is What Happens When an Historian from Iraq Teaches Veterans of the Iraq War in a US Classroom
“On the very first day of class of my course, ‘Modern History of the Middle East 1700-present,’ I decided to open with a question to ascertain how many students were veterans: ‘Besides myself, how many of you have been to my native Iraq?’” By Ibrahim Al-Marashi.
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White House says Isis 'shrinking' as group launches new attacks in Iraq
The Obama administration’s diplomatic point man in the international fight against Islamic State has said the extremists have been losing control over territory, adding: “This perverse caliphate is shrinking.” In Iraq, however, Isis launched a coordinated assault on a natural gas plant north of Baghdad that killed at least 14 people, while a string of other bomb attacks in or close to the capital killed 15 others, Iraqi officials said.
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ISIS execute 25 people by lowering them into NITRIC ACID
ISIS has executed 25 people in Mosul, northern Iraq, by lowering them in a vat of nitric acid, according to several local news reports. The men had been accused of spying on ISIS on behalf of Iraqi government security forces. According to witnesses, the 25 alleged 'spies' had been tied together with a rope and lowered in a large basin containing nitric acid until their organs dissolved.
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