Iraqi Army Reportedly Releases 3 Security Contractors
NEW YORK — Three security contractors including two Americans were released by Iraqi Army forces Tuesday after they were held for more than two ...
NEW YORK — Three security contractors including two Americans were released by Iraqi Army forces Tuesday after they were held for more than two ...
McClatchy | Nancy a Youssef | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Army's ability to train its forces is "increasingly at risk" because of the nation's protracted commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan,...
AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Western-backed government – facing intense pressure to address security lapses after suicide bombings killed 127 people i...
The New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
A senior American military adviser in Baghdad has concluded in an unusually blunt memo that the Iraqi forces suffer from deeply entrenched deficiencie...
AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Lower oil prices are threatening Iraq's efforts to build a military capable of defending the country, raising the possibility that the...
AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi soldier opened fire on a U.S. military team Saturday, killing two American soldiers and wounding three, the U.S. military sai...
John Bruhns | Posted 05.25.2011
The Status of Forces Agreement comes with outrageous stipulations that render our troops helpless, subject them to the Iraqi military tribunals, halt U.S. military operations, and turn vengeful detainees over to the Iraqis.
Pro Publica | T. Christian Miller | Posted 05.25.2011
On any given day in Iraq, about 140,000 Iraqi soldiers are on duty. But some 1,000 are in jail, 2,000 are in the hospital or recuperating from injurie...
John Bruhns | Posted 05.25.2011
For all those who will accept nothing short of "victory" in Iraq, please get on the same page as the rest of us: sending others into an immoral situation and expecting them to behave morally is absurd.
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — U.S.-backed Iraqi troops sealed off Baqouba and staged house-to-house searches Tuesday as they began a new offensive in Diyala provinc...
Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011
AP | PATRICK QUINN | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman s...
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. commanders in Iraq are for the first time seeking private contractors to form part of the small military teams that train and live with Iraqi mil...
New York Times | MICHAEL R. GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011
A company of Iraqi soldiers abandoned their positions on Tuesday night in Sadr City, defying American soldiers who implored them to hold the line agai...
AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraq's government moved Sunday to restore discipline within the ranks of the security forces, sacking more than 1,300 soldiers and pol...
AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011
Iraq's new army is "developing steadily," with "strong Iraqi leaders out front," the chief U.S. trainer assured the American people. That was three-pl...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — As security conditions improve in Iraq, the U.S. should be able to reduce forces at a slow but consistent pace beyond this summer, ...
NY Times | L. PAUL BREMER III | Posted 05.25.2011
It has become conventional wisdom that the decision to disband Saddam Hussein's army was a mistake, was contrary to American prewar planning and was a...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 02.26.2012