At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, and 44 percent of them were targeted for murder, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. An “unusually high proportion,” or about one-fourth, of those killed were international journalists, though the overwhelming[…]
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have fought their way to Iraq’s Sinjar Mountains where hundreds of people have been trapped for months by fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, a Kurdish official said. “Peshmerga forces have reached Mount Sinjar, the siege on the mountain has been[…]
Two senior Islamic State group leaders were killed in U.S. and coalition airstrikes in northern Iraq over the last week, U.S. officials said Thursday, as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel approved new orders for several hundred troops to deploy to Iraq to train Iraqi forces. According to one of the U.S.[…]
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have mounted two suicide car-bomb attacks aimed at security checkpoints at the main entrance into Haditha city. Haditha, in Iraq’s western Anbar province, is currently mostly under the control of the government, with troops and tribesmen holding about 70[…]
Iraqi forces are making plans for a push into Mosul, Iraq’s second city that was captured by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant fighters six month ago, Iraq’s Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari told Al Jazeera. The Iraqi government has set up an operations room for the liberation of[…]
US Secretary of State John Kerry Tuesday urged lawmakers to adopt a new legal authorization to underpin military action against Islamic State militants for at least three years. But during a heated debate, the top US diplomat came under fire from Republicans and Democrats who argued that if President Barack Obama[…]
Iraqi forces have mounted their biggest operation since June, reclaiming two towns in the eastern province of Diyala from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. In the province’s south on Sunday, Iraqi troops and Shia militias retook the town of Sa’adiya and were moving towards nearby villages.[…]
A Kurdish official in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil says a suicide car bomber has struck in the heart of the city, inflicting an unknown number of casualties. Wednesday’s bombing in Irbil, capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, took place near the historic citadel. Mayor Nawzad[…]
Iraqi security forces have entered the country’s largest refinery for the first time after months of battling fighters who had surrounded it, according to an Iraqi police colonel and state television. If confirmed, the recovery of the Beiji facility from ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,[…]
The parents of slain US aid worker Peter Kassig said Monday they would try to “forgive” Islamic State jihadists who beheaded their son, calling for healing and prayer as they mourned their loss. A video released Sunday by IS showed the beheading of 26-year-old Kassig, who took the name Abdul-Rahman after[…]
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