American ground troops could be deployed against Islamic State and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in Iraq, according to the most senior US military officer. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US military’s joint chiefs of staff, said on Tuesday he might recommend having US troops do more, potentially accompanying Iraqis[…]
US military forces have conducted airstrikes against an Islamic State target near Baghdad for the first time as part of an expanded effort to combat the militants, the US Central Command said. Attack aircraft were used in a strike Monday in support of Iraqi government troops south-west of Baghdad. The[…]
Nearly 30 countries agreed Monday in Paris to support Iraq “by any means necessary” in fighting Islamic State militants. Foreign ministers from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other countries agreed on “the urgent need” to remove the group from areas it controls in Iraq and[…]
Ten Arab states have agreed to rally behind Washington in the fight against Islamic State fighters, as the US seeks to build an international coalition. Following a meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Arab counterparts in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the participating countries released a[…]
OPINION by Ian Sinclair Just over ten years since it failed the public so completely over the 2003 Iraq War, the mainstream media’s coverage of the current Iraq crisis has been predictably awful. “Stop droning on Mr Cameron… SEND IN THE DRONES” was The Sun’s considered front page on 4[…]
The United States has begun carrying out air strikes near Iraq’s Haditha Dam which was under threat from Islamic State (IS) fighters, a US defence official has said. It is the first time that the US is targeting IS fighters in the area as the group tries to capture the[…]
At least six people were killed in a US drone attack on a convoy believed to be carrying senior al-Shabab leaders in Somalia. Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Adow, reporting from Mogadishu on Tuesday, said details of the attack near the coastal town of Barawe on Monday night remained unclear but that[…]
An American journalist held for nearly two years by rebels linked to Al-Qaeda in Syria returned to the United States late Tuesday, two days after Qatar negotiated his release, his family said. Peter Theo Curtis, 45, was reunited with his mother Nancy Curtis at Boston Logan International Airport after flying[…]
Friends, relatives and colleagues have paid tribute to American journalist James Foley, executed by Islamic State fighters, with his parents praising their “fearless” son. Condolences and shocked messages poured in after the group released a video of Foley’s beheading late Tuesday, including from French journalists who revealed they had been held[…]
Washington and Damascus are “not on the same page” in the fight against their common enemy the Islamic State, whose rebels have declared a “caliphate” straddling swathes of Iraq and Syria, US officials said Monday. The United States has been battling IS insurgents just over the Syrian border in Iraq[…]
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