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US Military Aircraft Drop Food, Water to Iraqis for Second Night
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Fear of ‘Another Benghazi’ Drove White House to Airstrikes in Iraq
Iraq
Turkey downplays Islamic State threat, but concerns grow
Hezbollah
Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, ISIS and Hezbollah
Iraq
US expands airstrikes against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq
Ansar al Sharia
Libya crumbles as the United States looks the other way
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ISIS targets Maghreb youths
Iraq
US bombs Islamic State after Obama call to prevent Iraq ‘genocide’
Iraq
US Planes Start Airstrikes on Iraq Militants
France
US allies pledge support for Iraq, but no military action
Iraq
US launches airstrikes in northern Iraq
Iraq
Najaf takes in Christians displaced by Islamic State
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Iraq crisis: live
US begins airstrikes against Islamic State near Irbil
“Two F/A-18 aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region,” the US military said.
France
Obama Allows Limited Airstrikes on ISIS
Obama authorizes limited airstrikes to protect US personnel in Irbil
President Obama was clear that the military could launch airstrikes only under specific conditions, and that the US military would not act as an offensive air force for the Iraqi military or the Kurdish Peshmerga.
Al Nusrah Front
Lebanese Army in control after militants flee Arsal
France
Hollande Pledges French ‘Support’ for Forces Fighting Iraq Jihadists
Iraq
Kurdish Peshmerga request US arms to battle ISIS: official
Europe
Patriarchs decry Christian exodus, demand UN act
Iraq
Islamic State pulls down church crosses in northern Iraq as 200,000 flee
Iraq
Islamic Militants in Iraq Are Widely Loathed, Yet Action to Curb Them Is Elusive
Iraq’s largest Christian town falls to Islamic State
Qaraqosh, as well as Tal Kayf, Bartella, and Karamlesh, fell to the Islamic State after Kurdish Peshmerga abandoned the towns without a fight.
Islamic State
Turkey wakes up to Islamic State threat
Iraq
40,000 Iraqis stranded on Sinjar mountain after Islamic State death threats
Ansar al Sharia
Tunisia Fears Attacks by Citizens Flocking to Jihad
Iraq
Saddam’s allies moved his corpse, fearful Shi’ite militias would harm it: tribal leader
US adds Nusrah, Islamic State financiers to list of global terrorists
Two Al Nusrah Front financiers/facilitators are based in Kuwait. The Islamic State operative has moved Kuwaiti fighters into Syria and Afghanistan and works with “Iran-based al Qaeda facilitators.”
Islamic State overruns Syrian artillery regiment in Hasakah
The jihadist group seized a large amount of military hardware and munitions after overrunning Regiment 121. Fighters loyal to Chechen commander Omar al Shishani were spotted at the fighting.
Islamic State leader who defected from al Qaeda reported killed in Mosul
Abdul Rahman al Amjad al Pakistani is thought to be Abdullah al Punjabi, one of nine mid-level al Qaeda commanders to openly defect from the global jihadist group and join the Islamic State.