News Iraq People: Rep. Ilhan Omar faces challenge from Chris Kelley, a celebrated Iraq war veteran
When Rep. Ilhan Omar ignited steep controversy in March with her September 11 comments, it was then that “some people did something,” and a longtime cop in her neighborhood decided he needed to do more than just bemoan what he perceived as a shocking trivialization of a terrorist attack that tore through the fabric of his beloved country.
News Iraq People: Judge orders release for Iraqi man after 2-year detention
Minneapolis – A federal judge in Minnesota ruled Tuesday that an Iraqi man who has been in immigration custody ... In this July 18, 2019, file photo, people walk back to Mexico on International Bridge ...
News Iraq People: Gunmen in restaurant in northern Iraq kill Turkish diplomat
The state-run Iraqi news agency identified one of the victims as the deputy general consul at the Turkish consulate. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the attack on the restaurant was ...
News Iraq People: Gunmen Kill Turkish Diplomat and Two Iraqis in the Kurdish Region of Iraq
Iraqi and Turkish authorities said they were investigating ... A Kurdish news organization, Rudaw, reported that security forces had put the area on lockdown and told people to avoid it. Ibrahim Kalin ...
News Iraq People: Turkish diplomat killed by gunmen in northern Iraqi city of Irbil
The shooting came just hours after the PKK announced the death of Sarhard Warto, a spokesman for the group, in a Turkish airstrike that killed four other people, according to a PKK statement quoted by ...
News Iraq People: Trump Administration Has Drastically Dropped Visas For Afghan And Iraqi Interpreters
Bates says in Iraq the program has a backlog of more than 100,000 people. Last year about 200 were cleared — down from nearly 10,000 in 2016. The number of Afghans getting visas also is slowing — down ...
News Iraq People: Iraq says I.S. remains threat, leader Baghdadi filmed video in 'remote area'
Baghdadi, an Iraqi, is believed to be hiding out in an isolated area ... referring to the Easter Sunday attacks claimed by the group which killed more than 250 people. In the 18-minute video from the ...
News Iraq People: The Wall: A Journey Across the Divide in Iraq and Syria
(The Iraqi military is largely Sunni ... Decades ago, there was a phosphate plant here that employed thousands of people, but US forces destroyed parts of the facility during the Gulf War in 1991. In ...
News Iraq People: What it's like to vacation in Iraq
Lindgren photographed the experience and shared the snaps on his social media and website. He hopes people will see the images and rethink their view of Iraq. "People can actually see that the country ...
