Iraq

Up to 500,000 People Fled Mosul Since Beginning of Military Operation   Up to 500,000 people have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul since the government troops launched...

Arnaldo Claudio on National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster’s human rights violations of Iraqis in 2005 Arnaldo Claudio, a retired senior US Military Police officer,...

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US accused of war crimes in air strikes on Iraqi city of Mosul By Bill Van Auken   Amnesty International issued a report Tuesday charging the...

The leaders who denounced Putin for deadly airstrikes in Syria are not speaking out over the siege of the Iraqi city America and the...

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After having left Syria, Bartlett took part in a press conference organized by the Syrian mission to the United Nations. After giving a brief statement about what she has observed in Syria and how she is aware firsthand of the Western media’s deception in terms of coverage of the crisis, she was questioned by a Norwegian journalist, Christopher Rothenberg, who challenged her claims that the Western media was lying.

54,000 Iraqi troops and 5,000 US servicemen supported by 90 warplanes and 150 heavy artillery pieces - were invested in the Mosul campaign when it was launched in October. They proved unable to beat 9,000 jihadists. Aware of the crisis on the Mosul front, the Pentagon has drawn up plans for sending out US reinforcements in the hope of turning the tide of the stalled battle.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis to be secretary of defense, according to people familiar with the decision, nominating a former senior military officer who led operations across the Middle East to run the Pentagon less than four years after he hung up his uniform.