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A new law awaiting President Bush’s signature appears to have cleared the way for an Iraqi interpreter who served with the Lincoln-based 67th Area Support Group last year to start ...
I like this because there aren’t many places in the country where I don’t have a friend. However, one of my best friends from my time in the army was not an American, he was an Iraqi. He was our ...
Interpreters who served alongside U.S. Forces in Afghanistan become desperate to escape the Taliban. Interpreters Wanted is about Afghan brothers who work with U.S. forces as interpreters, and one ...
Former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison are suing Virginia-based military contractor CACI for what they claim is its role in the torture they suffered while imprisoned.
KARUP, Denmark -- Before withdrawing its 480 combat troops from Iraq next month, Denmark is pulling out about a dozen Iraqi interpreters and their families. The interpreters have worked with the ...
Lt. Gen RAAD MAJID AL-HAMDANI, Corps Cmdr, Iraqi Republican Guard:[through interpreter] I knew myself, and I'd been told by the president himself, that Iraq did not have any weapons of mass ...
Friendly fire killed an Iraqi interpreter. The U.S. told his family something else By Tom Bowman, Graham Smith Published May 31, 2023 at 5:15 AM EDT Listen • 7:25 ...
SHERLOCK: It's an optimistic vision, but one that clashes pretty quickly with reality. Just moments later, he tells me that he, like so many other Iraqis, is trying, through the United Nations, to ...
These interpreters now live in fear of retribution from militias and they are not being given any help to resettle in the countries which, until recently, were grateful for their services.
Threats against Iraqi interpreters have a long history. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, at least 40 who worked with the British army have been murdered by militia groups.