IRAQ STRIKES EXPANDED
BAGHDAD Iraqi forces battled Sunday to secure the country’s second-largest dam from Islamic State militants after U.S. airstrikes opened the way for a ground offensive, marking an expansion of the...
View ArticleAgainst Islamic State, airstrikes may not suffice
BAGHDAD — It is the modern era's military strategy of choice: overwhelming air power delivering precision-guided punishment backed by intelligence on the ground, with minimal exposure for soldiers of...
View ArticleObama: No US Ground Troops to Fight IS in Iraq
VOA News President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday the United States will not fight another ground war in Iraq, seeking to reassure Americans about the level of U.S. involvement after a top general...
View ArticleUS air strikes target IS near key Iraq dam
US warplanes carried out five strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq’s Haditha Dam yesterday, witnesses and officials said, widening what US President Barack Obama called a campaign to curb...
View ArticleU.S. air strikes target insurgents near Iraq's Haditha Dam
BAGHDAD/TBILISI (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes carried out four strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq's Haditha Dam on Sunday, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama...
View ArticleIslamic State Victory Threatens to Unravel Obama’s Iraq Strategy
Islamic State’s seizure of the Iraqi city of Ramadi threatens to unravel President Barack Obama’s strategy for defeating the Sunni extremist group without sending U.S. ground troops back to Iraq....
View ArticleSunni tribes join Shiite militias in battle for Iraqi town
BAGHDAD (MCT) — Sunni Muslim tribesmen, Shiite militia fighters and Iraqi security forces set out Saturday to recapture a key city in Anbar province and stop Islamic State atrocities against a local...
View ArticleU.S. air strikes wipe out Islamic State patrol
BAGHDAD/TBILISI - U.S. warplanes carried out five strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq's Haditha Dam on Sunday, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama called a...
View ArticleObama Confronts Slippery Slope as Islamic State Advances
President Barack Obama is facing the slippery-slope problem in Iraq and Syria that he’s sought to avoid, with some advisers concluding that limited airstrikes are insufficient to break Islamic State’s...
View ArticleIslamic State militants seize villages near Ramadi in Iraq
BAGHDAD — The Islamic State extremist group launched an offensive Wednesday in Iraq's western Anbar province, capturing three villages near the provincial capital of Ramadi in what was the most...
View ArticleIslamic State Advance Test Obama’s No Ground-Force Stance
President Barack Obama is facing the slippery-slope problem in Iraq and Syria that he’s sought to avoid, with some advisers concluding that limited airstrikes are insufficient to break Islamic State’s...
View ArticleDeath of al-Qaida leader masks reality of drone strikes: they don't bring...
The US focus on the death of Aqap leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi and reports of the death of Mokhtar Belmokhtar ignores the needed urgency to address the violence and chaos across northern Africa and the...
View ArticleObama approves 450 more troops for Iraq training mission
Washington (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday approved the deployment of 450 more US military trainers to Iraq, a cautious bid to reverse gains by the Islamic State group. The White House...
View ArticleUS drone strike kills Al Qaeda leader in Yemen
A US airstrike has killed the leader of Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, the organization’s most powerful branch, in the latest setback to the global terror network spawned by Osama bin Laden. The group,...
View ArticleWhite House boosts troops, shifts tactics in Iraq
Pentagon officials have warned for months that Islamic State, a Sunni extremist group that President Obama initially dismissed as a “JV team,” is nimble, aggressive and unlike any previous terrorist...
View ArticleIraqis rename offensive in Sunni area; original title honored Shiite
Iraqi officials Wednesday hastily rebranded a just-launched government offensive to retake Anbar province, responding to fears that the operation’s original title might inflame sectarian tensions. The...
View ArticleUS orders more troops to Iraq, but no overhaul of strategy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more American troops to Iraq on Wednesday in an effort to reverse major battlefield losses to the Islamic State, an...
View ArticleObama's attack plan for ISIS differs from Iraq War strategy
WASHINGTON— The military offensive ordered by President Obama against marauding Islamic State militants barely resembles the grinding ground war that the United States waged in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 —...
View ArticleDefense chief: Iraqis showed no will to fight at Ramadi
WASHINGTON — The Islamic State group's takeover of the provincial capital Ramadi is stark evidence that Iraqi forces lack the "will to fight," Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a TV interview that...
View ArticleMore troops headed to Iraq, but there's no strategy overhaul
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more American troops to Iraq on Wednesday in an effort to reverse major battlefield losses to the Islamic State, an...
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