Iraq War

Iraq's national museum officially reopened Saturday after 12 years of painstaking efforts during which close to a third of 15,000 pieces looted during the US-led invasion were recovered.
      
The reopening was brought forward in what officials said was a response to the destruction of priceless artefacts by Islamic State group jihadists in the northern city of Mosul.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have abducted 220 Assyrian Christians from villages in northeastern Syria in recent days, a monitoring group said on Feb. 26, more than twice as many as previously reported.

More and more US citizens are supporting the idea of sending ground troops to Iraq or Syria to combat ISIS.

According to a recent survey by Pew Research Institute, almost one in two Americans (47%) is for sending ground troops to combat the jihadist threat. This percentage stood at 39% last October.

IS accused of trading in human organs

NEW YORK -- The Iraqi ambassador to the UN has asked the Security Council to investigate allegations that the Islamic State members are trading in human organs.

According to this, they use the money to fund their operations.

Not one billboard was saved. Gigantic posters with "President Erdo?an is honoring our city" inscribed in bold letters decorated the entire city.

Muslims are facing increased threats in the United States after the release of the movie "American Sniper," an American-Arab organization said in letters to director Clint Eastwood and star Bradley Cooper.
      

The main purpose of year-end reviews, of course, is to hold the ads apart. But they can also serve as a kind of annual check-up on the political health - and also on the economic, demographic and even physical health - of the planet and its teeming human population.

BELGRADE - Serbia supports Iraq in its battle against the terrorists of the Islamic State, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Monday at a meeting with Iraqi Ambassador Falah Abdulhasan Abdulsada.

The CIA declassified a letter Dec. 11 that suggests US intelligence had grave doubts about part of the case made by former president George W. Bush's White House to justify the war in Iraq.
      

A lack of funds has forced the U.N. World Food Programme to stop providing food vouchers for 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, the agency said Dec. 1.