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Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi speaks to the media in Baghdad, Iraq, on July 25, 2013. (AP)
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Volunteers of the newly formed “Peace Brigades” participate in a parade in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Iraq militants take border post with Syria
Anbar, Reuters—Sunni fighters seized a border post on the Iraq–Syria frontier on Saturday, smashing a line drawn in 1932 by colonial powers and linking hundreds of miles of land they control to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The...Caption:
President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media about the situation in Iraq on June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Iraqi forces ready push after Obama offers advisers
Baghdad, Reuters—Iraqi forces were massing north of Baghdad on Friday, aiming to strike back at Sunni Islamists whose drive toward the capital prompted the United States to send military advisers to stiffen government resistance. President Barack Obama offered up to...Caption:
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Saudi Arabia denies aiding ISIS in Iraq
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia has denied providing moral and financial support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has secured swathes of territory across northern and central Iraq this week, following accusations by Prime Minister Nuri...Caption:
Shi’ite Muslim Turkmen families leave the village of Taza Khormato, south of the oil hub city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, fearing any escalation in fighting reaching their village, on June 16, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/MARWAN IBRAHIM)