News Iraq Security: US Marine killed in Iraq days after Pentagon warned of ‘ISIS resurgence’
He was advising an Iraqi Security Force mission in Ninewah Province ... reported a resurgence in ISIS-related activity in Iraq and Syria. “Despite losing its territorial ‘caliphate ...
News Iraq Security: Iraq: Gulf Arab states can secure Persian Gulf waters alone
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s foreign minister says Iraq and Gulf Arab states ... Al-Hakim’s tweet was in response to efforts by the Trump administration to set up a U.S.-led naval security mission in the Strait ...
News Iraq Security: Marine killed in action in Iraq is ID'd by Pentagon
FOX NEWS - The Marine who died Saturday in Iraq's Nineveh province while assisting the country's security forces was identified as Gunnery Sgt. Scott A. Koppenhafer, a 35-year-old from Mancos, Colo., ...
News Iraq Security: Iraq orders militias to fully integrate into state security forces
In an important move amid US-Iran tensions, the Iraqi prime minister issued a decree ordering the Popular Mobilization Units to come under the full control of the state. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed Members of ...
News Iraq Security: Syria's Assad replaces security chiefs -- reports
Iraq’s security and paramilitary forces begin a military operation along the border with Syria aimed at clearing the area of Islamic State group militants, the military says in a statement. Although ...
News Iraq Security: Behind the Lines: Militias merge into Iraqi security forces?
The move by the Iraqi government to integrate the militias comes in the wake of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s May visit to Iraq. Speaking after the visit, Pompeo said that he had “urged the ...
News Iraq Security: Gunmen kill five members of a family near Iraq's Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead five members of a family in an attack on their house near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul late on Wednesday, police officials and hospital sources said. ...
News Iraq Security: Pompeo briefs Iraqi leaders on U.S. security concerns over Iran
... on Tuesday and met Iraq's prime minister and other top officials to discuss the safety of Americans in Iraq and explain U.S. security concerns amid rising Iranian activity. The visit came two days ...
News Iraq Security: How the U.S. Government Should Think About Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces
If removed from the PMF, many will find jobs in Iraq’s other security forces, again as they did before 2014. It is further argued that the ‘bad PMF’ will eventually discredit themselves in the eyes of ...
News Iraq Security: Iraq’s Militias, Accused of Threatening U.S., Pose a Quandary for Iraq
Cordesman, a national security analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “You have a range of groups in Iraq’s Popular Mobilization: Some are Sunni, some are pro-Iraqi government, ...
