Human Rights Watch calls for probe of Iraqi airstrike that.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the Sept. 1 airstrike took place in the town of al-Alam, just outside the northern city of Tikrit, which was captured by the Islamic State extremist group in June.
Report: Man attempted to swallow drugs as task force raided home
Rome-Floyd Metro Task Force officers descended about midnight Friday on Smiths home. They executed a search warrant and found suspected cocaine, marijuana and a spoon. Smith refused officers commands and tried to swallow suspected marijuana in .
The birth and death of Iraq: Never has the future of the country been more.
It was here that T.E. Lawrence ��� Lawrence of Arabia, the great British hero of the First World War who had marshaled the Arabs into a fighting force ��� fulfilled a promise to give his former Arab allies a country of their own.. In 2006, Leslie Gelb.
Iraqi forces press advance as parliament stormed
The massacres and abductions being carried out by the Islamic State provide harrowing new evidence that a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities is sweeping across northern Iraq, said Amnestys senior crisis response adviser, Donatella Rovera.
A Year on, Islamic State Group Still Rules Iraqs Fallujah
In June, the extremists captured Iraqs second-largest city, Mosul, then swept south toward Baghdad in a march that put almost all the Sunni-majority regions of northern and western Iraq into its hands. The Iraqi military crumbled, with troops often.
Islamic State Selling Iraqi Oil To Finance Caliphate
Near the northern city of Mosul, the Islamic State has taken over the Najma and Qayara fields, while further south near Tikrit it overran the Himreen and Ajil fields during its two-day sweep through northern Iraq in mid-June. The oilfields in. Iraqi.
Cracker Squire: Iraqi Campaign to Drive ISIS From Tikrit.
BAGHDAD ��� Tensions between Iraq and the United States over how to battle the Islamic State broke into the open on Tuesday, as Iraqi officials declared that they would fight on their own timetable with or without American help, and as United States warplanes conspicuously sat out the biggest Iraqi counteroffensive. Shiite militia leaders said that their fighters made up more than two-thirds of the pro-government force of 30,000, and that the Iranian spymaster Maj.
Captured Bin Laden Docs Show Plan to Hijack Arab Spring
Rahmans letter was introduced as evidence in the trial of Abid Naseer, who is alleged to have taken part in al Qaedas plotting in Europe and New York City. Just months after penning it, Rahman was killed in a US drone��.
Nobody Puts Nouri in the Corner
���The Iranian weapons are the ones that enabled the Iraqi forces to fight daesh,��� Maliki said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. ���If weapons were. One Western official told the New York Times that Maliki was ���absolutely convinced��� he.
Pastor calls for unity, show of character at Martin Luther King Jr. Youth.
The crowd sat still as the Rev. Timothy Williamson Sr., youth pastor of Lovejoy Baptist Church, emphasized those words at Saturdays Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Prayer Breakfast. At times someone would yell ���Amen��� as Williamsons message of unity.
ISIS attacks Ramadi in Iraq as it loses ground in Tikrit
The city has been the focus of a weeklong assault by Iraqi forces, the largest operation against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, since it swept into control of much of the country last year. Iraqi government. Even so, some Sunni residents in areas held by the Islamic State have said that they would welcome the Shiite militias if they rid them of the militants harsh rule. Community leaders said. New Muscle Building Science Lets Smaller Guys Bulk Up Fast.
New Iraq Grain Board chief appointed after spoiled rice scandal
Jabbar, who has denied any wrongdoing, declined to comment on his return to the Grain Board. The trade ministers move comes at a time when government forces are battling militants belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) who swept.
Iraq crisis: Kerry vows sustained US support for Iraqi forces.
John Kerry visits Baghdad to the discuss sweeping gains by Sunni insurgents in Iraq.. Matthew Weaver in London and Tom McCarthy in New York. On a visit Monday to Baghdad, US secretary of state John Kerry vowed intense, sustained support for Iraqi security forces, which he said needed arms and training.. An Iraqi army airstrike on Isis-held Tikrit killed at least seven civilians and wounded 12 more, according to residents, the Wall Street Journal reports.
ISIS march on Iraq capital with a bullet in the head for anyone
And five times a day they pray to become martyrs for Allah.. Iraqs government has indicated a willingness for the US military to conduct airstrikes against radical Islamist militants; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant a have taken over Iraqs second biggest city Mosul and town of Tikrit; Government. Peshmerga fighters, the security forces of Iraqs autonomous Kurdish north, swept into Kirkuk after the army abandoned its posts there, a peshmerga spokesman said.
Analysis:The Islamic State appears to fray from within
New restrictions on travel in and out of areas controlled by the Islamic State have been imposed in recent weeks, including a prohibition on truck drivers transporting men without permission, the activist group says. Public executions, a core. The Islamic State is battling major offensives waged on at least three fronts, by Kurds in northern Syria, Kurds in northern Iraq and the combined Iraqi army-Shiite militia force advancing on the central Iraqi city of Tikrit. Islamic State��.
For Islamic State, wheat season sows seeds of discontent
That decision provided an early propaganda victory, when fighters handed out milled flour in sacks stamped with the Islamic State logo in Mosul, the norths largest city. But U.S.-led airstrikes and pressure from Iraqi forces, allied militias and Iraqi.
Shia and Kurds drift apart amid turmoil of Sunni insurgency
A member of Kurdish Peshmerga forces (R) talks to a leader of a local. John Kerry, US secretary of state, held talks with Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq on Tuesday and urged them not to abandon the country and to join a unity government to counter.
Community rallies to help soldier wounded in Afghanistan
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Obama to reveal Isis strategy ��� but pledges no Iraq war.
Barack Obama will announce a new US game plan for an offensive against Islamic State (Isis) this week, the US president said on Sunday as efforts to build an international coalition against the extremists made progress. The US. The government is increasingly confident that a broad-based new government will be formed in Baghdad this week, and hopes that this will encourage the Sunni population in Iraq to support efforts to tackle Isis in Sunni-held areas.
Iraq crisis: Kerry says US air strikes may well be an option.
The Obama administration signalled for the first time on Monday that it was willing to enter into discussions with Iran over the advance of Islamist insurgents in Iraq, but stressed that any contact between the two adversaries would be informal and rejected an... Fighters under the banner of the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) continued to grab territory in northern Iraq on Monday, overrunning Tal Afar and consolidating control of Mosul, Tikrit and other areas.
Nobody Puts Nouri in the Corner | Foreign Policy
���The Iranian weapons are the ones that enabled the Iraqi forces to fight daesh,��� Maliki said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State.. One Western official told the New York Times that Maliki was ���absolutely convinced��� he would return to power sometime this year.. Qassem Suleimani, is a fixture on the countrys front lines ��� most recently in the city of Samarra, where he has been gathering Shiite militias for an assault on the Islamic State-held city of Tikrit.
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MUSINGS ON IRAQ: Could Salahaddin Operation Be A.
Where militias are heavily present Iran usually takes the lead and when the Iraqi Security Forces or peshmerga is prominent the U.S. plays a larger role. Many Pro-Iranian. Barnard, Anne, ���Iraqs Drive Against ISIS Reveals Tensions With U.S.,��� New York Times, 3/3/15. Erem News, ���Iraq. Kenner, David, ���For God and Country, and Iran, Shiite militias with American blood on their hands are leading the charge to drive the Islamic State out of Tikrit. But are they doing��.
Iraqi leaders issue call for defending state sovereignty and.
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Fleeing Tikrit residents fear no return as Iraqi forces close in.
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - As Iraqi forces close in, Tikrits few remaining civilians are cutting up white clothes and fabric to make flags of surrender, fearing their Shiite liberators more than the Islamic State militants occupying the. Some.. (Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch ) (New York) - Iraqi forces fighting to recapture the city of Tikrit from the extremist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS) should protect civilians from revenge attacks by pro-government militias.
Recent Highlights in Political Violence | Combating.
June 9, 2014 (PAKISTAN): A suicide bomber rammed a truck into a military checkpoint in North Waziristan Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, killing four soldiers. ��� The News. New York Times, June 10. June 11, 2014 (IRAQ): The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took control of Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The move comes just two days after the ISIL seized control of Mosul, Iraqs second-largest city. According��.
Judge: Michelle Reynolds children can visit her in prison once they are adults
However, shortly after its 2012 decision the board received new information that, once considered, led the parole board to postpone Reynolds parole date to 2023. Rocker said the information the board received is confidential. Patterson said she wrote.
FMC president, CEO says hospital staying ahead of Obamacare
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Iraqi Forces, Militias Sweep Into Islamic State-Held Tikrit
BAGHDAD ��� Iraqi soldiers and allied Shiite militiamen swept into the Islamic State-held city of Tikrit on Wednesday, launching a two-front offensive to squeeze extremists out of Saddam Husseins hometown in a major test of the troops resolve.
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10 lessons from Bushs fiasco in Iraq - Daily Kos
171 Comments / 171 New. Obama lost Iraq. With the fall of Mosul and Tikrit to the forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), that will be the rallying cry for Republicans for the foreseeable future. Already, there is a chorus of voices from John McCain and. On January 10, 2007���the same day President Bush announced his surge to reverse the exploding civil war in Iraq���the New York Times reported, New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki. 2.
Body of 24-year-old found under South Broad Street bridge
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