Andrew Follett Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that former President George W. Bush should have “kept the oil” after invading Iraq. “And, I said, keep the oil,” Trump said during the Republican presidential debate Tuesday night. “And we should have kept the oil, believe me. We should have kept the oil.” Trump was responding to a question about…
Jacob Bojesson Iranian explosives killed 196 service members between 2003 and 2011 in Iraq, according to a U.S. Central Command report. The report, described to The Washington Free Beacon, states that at least 196 U.S. troops have been killed and another 861 have been wounded from a total of 1,534 attacks. The Obama administration received a lot of…
Jonah Bennett President Barack Obama has insisted that the U.S. military will not head back to combat in Iraq, but the Pentagon just reluctantly admitted that American troops are definitely in combat. While the mission was supposed to be restricted to training Iraqi forces to combat the Islamic State, American forces were sucked in to…
Rachel Stoltzfoos Footage released by the Kurdish government Saturday shows U.S. and Kurdish forces releasing prisoners as part of a recent raid on an Islamic State prison in northern Iraq. U.S. and Kurdish forces are seen searching the prison and releasing prisoners in helmet-camera footagepurportedly filmed in the course of a raid on an ISIS prison early…
by Ryan Lazarus VICE News has launched an incredible series about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Filmmaker Medyan Dairieh takes us behind the scenes of ISIS controlled territory. We get a chance to see how the former al Qaida affiliated group operates across a variety of fronts. Merciless death and destruction is…
The militant group ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) has existed since the early years of the Iraq war and pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda in 2004. As of 2013, their numbers have swelled between 7,000 and 10,000 members, and the group has claimed responsibility for attacks that have killed thousands of Iraqi…