U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday authorized sending some 350 additional military personnel to Iraq, hours after the Islamic State militant group released a video showing the beheading of a second American journalist.
U.S. military forces continued to attack the Islamic State (IS) force in Iraq, using fighter and attack aircraft to conduct three airstrikes Sunday and Monday near the Mosul Dam, according to a statement of U.S. Central Command on Monday.
At least 13 people were killed in two bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Monday, a police source said.
French President Francois Hollande on Thursday refused to forge cooperation links with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad to stem threats of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) fighters who controlled parts of northern Syria and Iraq.
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden on Monday once again stressed the formation of a new government in Iraq as an "integral" part of efforts to combat the Islamic State rampaging in the northern part of the country.
Foreign policy is expected to be a major issue in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, and that may spell trouble for Hillary Clinton, as critics will view the likely candidate as tainted by the White House's perceived foreign policy missteps.
Testimonies gathered from civilians who fled the recent violence in Sinjar in north Iraq " have revealed appalling accounts of killing, abduction and sexual violence perpetrated against women and children," a UN spokesman said here Thursday, citing information from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
A massive United Nations aid operation for displaced Iraqis is underway as a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) cargo jet carrying 100 tons of humanitarian supplies landed in a northern city of the country on Wednesday, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
U.S. destroys armed vehicles of militants in northern Iraq
The United States is "far less likely" to carry out an evacuation mission on Mount Sinjar in Iraq after troops assessed the humanitarian situation there, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
Iraq's embattled Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has rejected his successor appointed by newly- elected President Fouad Massoum in his last attempt to cling to power, a move that analysts say is plunging the war-torn country into political chaos.
An opinion of the People's Daily Wednesday rebutted U.S. President Barack Obama's labeling China as a "free rider" in Iraq.
About 130 American military advisers have arrived in Iraq to help with its humanitarian aid in north area of the country, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Tuesday.
U.S. air campaign in Iraq is expected to continue for some time, with no endgame in sight as Iraq battles advancing Islamic extremists.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has posed a threat to the civilized world, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Monday, days after Washington launched airstrikes against the Islamist fighters in northern Iraq.
While militants of the Islamic State (IS) are making fresh gains in northern Iraq, Baghdad was plunged into political infighting after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced his decision late Sunday to sue President Fuad Masum for alleged constitutional violation.
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