Militants attacked a Kurdish base were U.S. advisers are stationed.

A suicide bomber attacked civilians in the city of Haditha.

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The following letter (original PDF) was obtained on May 4, 2017 by IRmep via the Freedom of Information Act (release letter PDF) from a classified FBI and Department of Homeland Security dossier. The letter was presumably sourced from an INTERPOL intercept. It is an...

The ruins carpeted the city market, rippling outwards in waves of destruction. Broken beams, collapsed roofs, exploded metal shutters and fossilized merchandise crumbled underfoot. In one of the burnt-out shells of the shops where raisins, nuts, fabrics, incense and...

The Iraqi military admitted to an airstrike that killed a number of people, but denied that civilians were among the casualties.l

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Well, OK, I guess the president learned his American history at Trump University. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, he recently seemingly confused Andrew Jackson's behavior during the nullification crisis in 1832 with the Civil War, which didn't occur...

A new report of civilians casualties in an airstrike came out of Mosul on Thursday.