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US weighs options to speed Iraq’s fight to retake Mosul
Middle East

US weighs options to speed Iraq’s fight to retake Mosul

The United States is willing to deploy Apache attack helicopters and advisers to help Iraq retake the city of Mosul…
UN asks for $861 million to help Iraq meet humanitarian bill
Middle East

UN asks for $861 million to help Iraq meet humanitarian bill

The United Nations appealed on Sunday for $861 million to help Iraq meet a big funding gap in its 2016…
Homesick and fed up: Iraqi refugees in Germany head home
World

Homesick and fed up: Iraqi refugees in Germany head home

It's a change of heart that Iraqi immigrant Sekvan Agho never saw coming. Agho was among the wave of nearly 1.1…
Mass grave in Iraq’s Ramadi holds at least 40 Islamic State victims: officials
Middle East

Mass grave in Iraq’s Ramadi holds at least 40 Islamic State victims: officials

Iraqi authorities have uncovered a mass grave in Ramadi containing at least 40 bodies, including women and children, apparently killed…
Iran-linked groups focus of Baghdad kidnapping probe: US sources
Middle East

Iran-linked groups focus of Baghdad kidnapping probe: US sources

US intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in Baghdad last week are focusing their probe on three militant…
France’s Hollande says Iraq, Syria air strikes to be ‘accelerated’
Middle East

France’s Hollande says Iraq, Syria air strikes to be ‘accelerated’

French President Francois Hollande said Thursday that a coalition waging a bombing campaign against the Islamic State group would "accelerate"…
Officials name top suspects in Iraq abductions of Americans
Middle East

Officials name top suspects in Iraq abductions of Americans

Two powerful Shi'ite militias are top suspects in the abduction of three Americans last weekend in a southern neighborhood of…
Kurds waging campaign to uproot Arabs in north Iraq: Amnesty
Middle East

Kurds waging campaign to uproot Arabs in north Iraq: Amnesty

Kurdish forces have bulldozed, blown up and burned down thousands of Arab homes across northern Iraq in what may constitute…
Oldest Christian monastery in Iraq razed
Middle East

Oldest Christian monastery in Iraq razed

Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: The oldest Christian…
Americans missing in Baghdad kidnapped by Iran-backed militia: Iraqi, US sources
Middle East

Americans missing in Baghdad kidnapped by Iran-backed militia: Iraqi, US sources

Three US citizens who disappeared last week in Baghdad were kidnapped and are being held by an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia,…
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