CIA Director John Brennan told TV host Charlie Rose on Friday that, on assuming office, President Barack Obama “did not have a good deal of experience” in intelligence-related matters, adding – with remarkable condescension – that now “he has gone to school and...

At least 184 were killed and 244 were wounded. Several more bodies were found in a mass grave near Kirkuk.

At least 53 people were killed and 31 were wounded in the latest violence. That includes 19 men discovered in a mass grave near Kirkuk.

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No civilian casualties were reported, but at least 194 people were killed and 93 more were wounded in battles and bombings.

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After returning from Iraq, U.S. General Martin Dempsey expressed concern that the Iraqi government is not on the path away from sectarianism and that all parties in Iraq may not have equal footing in the government after the Islamic State militants are defeated.

At least 226 were killed in recent fighting. Few of these fatalities were in the Tikrit area, so the figure is likely to be much higher. However, at least 300 bodies were found in a pair of mass graves there. At least 42 people were wounded.