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Iraq lawmakers urge quick picks for key ministries
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers urged the country’s new prime minister to quickly assign the critical posts of defense and interior minister which will spearhead domestic efforts to combat the advance of extremist Sunni militants. Addressing lawmakers late Monday, Prime Minister Haider ...
US expands air strikes in Iraq
      BAGHDAD – Washington said on Sunday it had carried out air strikes against militants in Iraq, expanding its month-long air campaign and its involvement in the conflict.   It was a significant escalation for President Barack Obama, who made his political career ...
US expands air strikes in Iraq
      BAGHDAD – Washington said on Sunday it had carried out air strikes against militants in Iraq, expanding its month-long air campaign and its involvement in the conflict.   It was a significant escalation for President Barack Obama, who made his political career ...
IS militants killed 770 Iraqi troops, says HRW
BAGHDAD — Militants from the Islamic State group carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June, a leading international watchdog said Wednesday. The incident at Camp ...
Over 1,400 killed in Iraq violence last month: UN
BAGHDAD — At least 1,420 people were killed in Iraq in August, the United Nations said on Monday, as sectarian violence raged in the center and north of the country. Another 1,370 Iraqis were wounded and 600,000 people forced to flee, ...
Iraq violence killed at least 1,420 people in August: UN
    BAGHDAD - Violence in Iraq killed at least 1,420 people during the month of August, as Iraqi forces fought to regain areas overrun by Islamic State militants, the United Nations said on Monday. At least 1,370 people were wounded during the ...
Iraq breaks months-long Amerli siege
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces broke through to the extremist-besieged Shiite town of Amerli Sunday, where thousands of people have been trapped for more than two months with dwindling food and water supplies.   It is the biggest offensive success for the Iraqi ...
Iraq breaks months-long Amerli siege
  A child cries in a military helicopter after being evacuated by Iraqi forces from Amerli, north of Baghdad. A home to around 180,000 people, mostly Turkmen Shiites, the small town of Amerli was freed of the Islamic State fighters’ siege. ...
Iraqi planes target IS; citizens of besieged town face ‘massacre’
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi warplanes have begun targeting militants besieging the Shiite Turkmen town of Amerli amid growing fears for the safety of thousands of residents short of food and water and facing a “massacre”. With some 12,000 Turkmen trapped in the ...
Car bombing kills 15 in Baghdad
    BAGHDAD — A parked car bomb exploded on Tuesday in a busy Shiite area in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 15 people, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks to shake the Iraqi capital as the Shiite-led government ...
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