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The move will occur in two phases, with the U.S. counterterrorism mission ... with the last phase ending in 2026. A small force is expected to remain in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.

In an operation early Tuesday, October 22nd, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), with support from the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation ... involving the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service, Iraq's ...

Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it.” Second, I commanded one of the key initiatives that informed the WPS strategy and ...

Head of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service, Lieutenant General Abdul Wahab al-Saadi said the operation was carried out in two phases by an airborne force in a rugged area north of Rutba town. Israeli ...

Iraqi authorities have arrested a suspected member of the Islamic State group for inciting a January truck-ramming attack that killed 14 people in the US city of New Orleans, Iraq’s judiciary said ...

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BAGHDAD, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Three Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in an airstrike in Iraq's Salahuddin province, and three others were arrested in separate counter-terrorism operations ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee challenged the Bush administration Sunday over its assertions about the size and capability of the Iraqi security forces.