Phebe Marr, scholar of Iraq’s history and upheavals, dies at 93
A bus trip to Baghdad in the late 1950s began Dr. Marr’s path to become one of the leading American experts on Iraq.
Iraq PM says he will sign security deal with Britain
By Timour Azhari (Reuters) -Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday he would sign a bilateral security ...
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What Does the Future Hold for Syrian Kurds Post-Assad?
NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...
Islamic State: despite the fall of its caliphate, the group is still influencing terrorism
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) called the attack an “act of terrorism” and said that Jabbar appeared to have been ...
Four Islamic State members, including two leaders, killed in eastern Iraq
Four members of the Islamic State, including two senior leaders, were killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains in eastern Iraq, security officials said on Saturday.
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US Military Campaign Against Islamic State Ramps Up
The U.S. military has waged a series of large strikes on the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq over the past month in what appears to be an uptick in the decade-long campaign against the ...
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New Orleans attack puts spotlight on Islamic State comeback bid
“In addition to the executed attacks, the number of plots disrupted or being tracked through the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Levant ... State claims of mounting 153 attacks in Iraq and ...
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Deadly New Orleans ramming attack may be sign of possible Islamic State comeback
WASHINGTON — A US Army veteran who flew a black Islamic State ... Levant, Asia, Europe, and potentially as far as North America is striking,” the team said. Jim Jeffrey, former US ambassador ...
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Here’s a list of ISIS-inspired attacks in the US
Nobody else was killed but one officer was injured. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack, the first time it took credit for a U.S.-based attack.