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- Isis Takes Abu Ghraib - Continues It's String Of Military Victories Despite Obama's Intense Aerial Bombardment
NEXT STOP, BAGHDAD The News Tribune reported:Islamic State militants have taken control of key cities in Iraq’s western province of Anbar and have begun to besiege one of the country’s largest military bases in a weeklong offensive that’s...
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CBS: Iraq Says It Thwarted Al Qaeda Plot on World Cup Security Forces Detain Militant Suspected of Planning "Terrorist Attack" in South Africa during World Cup (AP) Iraqi security forces have detained an al Qaeda militant suspected of planning an attack...
- Al-qaeda Faces Rebellion From The Ranks
Sickened by the group’s barbarity, Iraqi insurgents are giving information to coalition forces. This is an incredible news, exactly what Democrats are terrified of - that we will succeed in Iraq.(Iraq) Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off...
- News From Iraq
On Friday night, soldiers from the 5th brigade 6th division of the Iraqi army captured 75 militants and confiscated their weapons in al-Yarmouk district in western Baghdad. Qasim Ata the spokesman of Baghdad operations said the militants were found hiding...
- Us Officials Begin Talks With Iraqi Insurgents
Attemtpting to take advantage of a rift between homegrown insurgents and foreign Al Qaeda members, the United States has entered into negotiations with Iraqi insurgents: Citing a Western diplomat, an Iraqi political leader and an Iraqi insurgent leader,...
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Rebels turn on Al-Qaeda
Abu Ghraib - The cars roared through west Baghdad, packed with masked gunmen hanging out of windows and brandishing Kalashnikovs: Meet the latest US allies in the war against al-Qaeda in Iraq.Article from News24, Hat tip, Harrys Place
As recently as six months ago many of the gunmen, who still wear the mismatched urban camouflage of street fighters, were planting roadside bombs, sniping at US soldiers and battling Iraqi forces.
But recently an alliance between US-led forces and Sunni tribes in the western province of Anbar has drawn in nationalist insurgents in Baghdad keen to claw back their neighbourhoods from al-Qaeda's Islamists.
The new force in Abu Ghraib includes not only members of prominent local tribes, but fighters from the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution (Rev20) and the Islamic Army, two Sunni insurgent groups established to fight US forces.
Both oppose the occupation, but in Anbar and some western Baghdad neighbourhoods they have a tacit ceasefire with US-led security forces while fighting to expel the Iraq franchise of Osama Bin Laden's jihadi network
- Isis Takes Abu Ghraib - Continues It's String Of Military Victories Despite Obama's Intense Aerial Bombardment
NEXT STOP, BAGHDAD The News Tribune reported:Islamic State militants have taken control of key cities in Iraq’s western province of Anbar and have begun to besiege one of the country’s largest military bases in a weeklong offensive that’s...
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CBS: Iraq Says It Thwarted Al Qaeda Plot on World Cup Security Forces Detain Militant Suspected of Planning "Terrorist Attack" in South Africa during World Cup (AP) Iraqi security forces have detained an al Qaeda militant suspected of planning an attack...
- Al-qaeda Faces Rebellion From The Ranks
Sickened by the group’s barbarity, Iraqi insurgents are giving information to coalition forces. This is an incredible news, exactly what Democrats are terrified of - that we will succeed in Iraq.(Iraq) Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off...
- News From Iraq
On Friday night, soldiers from the 5th brigade 6th division of the Iraqi army captured 75 militants and confiscated their weapons in al-Yarmouk district in western Baghdad. Qasim Ata the spokesman of Baghdad operations said the militants were found hiding...
- Us Officials Begin Talks With Iraqi Insurgents
Attemtpting to take advantage of a rift between homegrown insurgents and foreign Al Qaeda members, the United States has entered into negotiations with Iraqi insurgents: Citing a Western diplomat, an Iraqi political leader and an Iraqi insurgent leader,...