Iraq War

Dear Members of the European Parliament,

I was on a mission to write a reportage in Mosul, the Islamic State group's former capital in northern Iraq, about children returning to a school shut down for three years by the jihadists. I was thinking of how best to describe the joy of those children as they returned to their long-forbidden desks in that ruined city.

An Iraqi security agency has admitted holding hundreds of “terrorism” suspects for months, Human Rights Watch said on July 22 while calling on authorities to inform the families of those held.

An "ensemble cast" from international terrorist groups came together to carry out a terrorist attack with a RPG launcher against the US Embassy in Bulgaria's capital Sofia in 1991 as a warning against the United States before the launch of the Desert Storm operation against Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein (essentially the second stage of the First Gulf War or the First Iraq War), a former

Iraq needs $88.2 billion to rebuild after years of war against the Islamic State group, Planning Minister Salman al-Jumaili said Monday, as an international conference on the country's reconstruction opened in Kuwait, AFP reported.

American troops have started to draw down from Iraq following Baghdad’s declaration of victory over Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISL) last year, according to Western contractors at a U.S.-led coalition base in Iraq.

Whilst there are no golden ages, it is abundantly clear that the world today is in a very unhealthy state. From Eastern Europe to North Africa to the Middle East, countries, in recent years, have been severely destabilised, resulting in carnage and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of lives.

And at the heart of that destabilisation is American and British foreign policy.

 Iraqi security forces are forcibly returning civilians from refugee camps to unsafe areas in the predominantly Sunni Anbar province, exposing them to death from booby-traps or acts of vigilantism, refugees and aid workers say, quoted by Reuters. 

BRUSSELS - NATO is training Iraqi medical officers in cooperation with Serbia and a three-week training course for medical experts from Iraq's security forces started in early December in the Serbian Military Logistics Training Centre in Nis, the military alliance has announced.

Iraqi security forces have found a mass grave with at least 400 victims of the Islamic State terrorist group in the northern province of Kirkuk.

An Iraqi army helicopter crashed during a routine flight on Sunday, killing all seven people on board, a military statement and Iraqi air force officers said.
The Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter went down near the southern province of Kut, the statement said. Two pilots and five army officers were killed, Iraqi air force officers told Reuters.