US officials: Troops to leave Iraq in 18 monthsANNE GEARANPAMELA HESS
president’s initial campaign promise to withdraw troops as soon as possible. Obama today says that the move to withdraw is with “full agreement about how to move forward” from both countries, but also comes after Iraq was unwilling to extend powers to the American military that would put t...
Death Toll for US Troops in Iraq Passes 4,000 MarkThe number of US troops who have died in Iraq since the invasion five years ago has hit the 4,000 milestone following a roadside bomb in south Baghdad that killed four American soldiers.Cockburn, Patrick...
As of late September, there were 8,892 U.S. troops in Iraq, according to a Pentagon report released in November. The U.S. first launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq in August 2014. The intervention was described at the time as "limited," but as Iraq's military ...
"As the president has made very clear, we're not going back into Iraq in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we once were in Iraq," he said. The new detachment brings the total number of American troops in Iraq to more than 900, including previous teams of special operators...
Images appear to show Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite Quds Force, on the ground in northern Iraq. He's reportedly commanding at least some of the Iraqi forces fighting to get into Tikrit, though Iran claims its troops are only in Iraq as military advisers -- just like...
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Mideast Iraq US Troops: In this Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 photo, a concrete blast wall that served as a memorial to fallen soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, a unit of the Georgia National Guard that served in Iraq in 2005, at a shuttered Camp Sather, part of the ...
US Troops Weigh Impact of Stress ; Some Say Repeated Tours in Iraq Could Be a Factor in Recent Murder Allegations
'If US and British troops withdrew today, there would be a bloodbath' BOMBS, GUN SQUADS, BURIALS . . . ONE WEEK IN IRAQ BOMBS, GUN SQUADS, BURIALS . . . ONE WEEK IN IRAQ As US troops fear a new onslaught, the head of the British army calls for a pullout, leaving Iraq's ...