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Iraqi News
February 28, 2018
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – Eight Islamic State (IS) militants, including a suicide attacker, were killed in a face-off with paramilitary forces in southern Kirkuk, ... A government campaign, backed by paramilitary troops and a U.S.-led coalition, has been fighting, since October 2016, the militant group, whichÃâà...
Newsweek
February 28, 2018
Samar Hassan screams after her parents were killed by U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division in a shooting January 18, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq. The troops fired ... Parents Hussein and Camila Hassan were killed instantly, and a son Racan, 11, was seriously wounded in the abdomen. Racan, who lostÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 27, 2018
The cost of an October 2017 battle between U.S. soldiers and ISIS fighters in Niger was high: Four Americans were killed and two were wounded. ... U.S. service members deployed to Niger do not receive the additional $225 per month in pay that their counterparts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and otherÃâà...
euronews
February 27, 2018
More than seven times as many civilians have been killed by the US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria than official numbers suggest, according to recent data from a .... Casualty counts categorised as “confirmed” and “fair” - when there are two or more credible, non-contested claims and the coalition admits toÃâà...
Al-Monitor
February 25, 2018
Anbar regional police chief Maj. Gen. Hadi Rizej Kessar had told Al-Monitor the previous day in an interview in Ramadi that the incident was "the Americans' fault. There was a man they wanted. The US forces and the Iraqi army went to the area to arrest the person. They did not coordinate with the police.
Stars and Stripes
February 20, 2018
The Pentagon has identified a soldier who died in a noncombat incident Monday in Iraq while supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State campaign. In a statement Tuesday, the military said Sgt. Christina Marie Schoenecker, 26, of Arlington, Kan., died in Baghdad.
CNN
February 19, 2018
ISIS claimed responsibility for a deadly attack last month in Baghdad. At least 27 people were killed January 15 in a double suicide bombing in central Baghdad, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Health. In addition to those killed, about 100 people were wounded when two bombers detonated suicide vestsÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 15, 2018
A jogging British army officer was killed at an Iraq airbase when a forklift truck collided with him, an inquest heard. Captain Dean Sprouting, 46, was stationed at the Al Asad airbase, which was used to train Iraqi soldiers as part of a mission against the Islamic state of Iraq and Levant (Isil). Darren SalterÃâà...
The Intercept
December 31, 1999
In its annual assessment issued last month, Airwars found that 2017 was the deadliest year for civilians in Iraq and Syria, with between 3,923 and 6,102 civilians killed in strikes conducted by the U.S.-led coalition. During 2017, civilian deaths from coalition air and artillery strikes in support of local groundÃâà...
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