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                    [ArticleID] => 1534677
                    [Title] => Pentagon chief: Iraqi strike may be 'mistake' by 2 sides
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The American airstrike that may have killed a number of Iraqi soldiers on Friday seems to be "a mistake that involved both sides," US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-19 16:15:48 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1468725 [AuthorName] => Lolita C. Baldor [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1427133 [Title] => US Marine who vanished in Iraq gets 2 years in prison [Summary] =>

A U.S. Marine who vanished a decade ago in Iraq was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for leaving his post there and then fleeing to Lebanon after a brief return to the U.S.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-24 09:07:47 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413045 [AuthorName] => Jonathan Drew [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20150223/us-marine-desertion-trial.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1414551 [Title] => A year on, Islamic State group still rules Iraq's Fallujah [Summary] =>

Nearly every night for a year, mortar and sniper fire from Islamic State group militants has pinned down outgunned Iraqi troops on the edge of Fallujah.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-19 02:16:13 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1788543 [AuthorName] => Vivian Salama [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1406196 [Title] => Women excised from public life, abused by IS [Summary] =>

The gunmen came to the all-girls' elementary school in the Iraqi city of Fallujah at midday with a special delivery: piles of long black robes with gloves and face veils, now required dress code for females in areas ruled by the Islamic State group.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-24 05:46:31 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1796237 [AuthorName] => Zeina Karam [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1384679 [Title] => Iraqi forces retake 2 towns from IS [Summary] =>

Iraqi security forces and Kurdish Peshmerga freed two towns in northern and central Iraq on Saturday after fierce clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants, security source said.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-26 16:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1345776 [Title] => Iraq sending 4,000 volunteers to help in Ramadi [Summary] =>

Iraq is airlifting some 4,000 volunteers to an embattled city west of Baghdad to help bolster government forces locked in a running battle with Sunni militants there, authorities said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-13 04:33:33 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1660514 [AuthorName] => Qassim Abdul Zahra [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1337471 [Title] => Iraqi Sunni militants seize large part of key border city [Summary] =>

Iraq's Sunni militant groups have seized large part of a key city near the Syrian border after fierce clashes with Iraqi security forces on Saturday in Iraq's western province of Anbar, security sources said.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-21 20:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1289501 [Title] => Iraqi militants accidentally set off bomb, 21 dead [Summary] =>

An instructor teaching his militant recruits how to make car bombs accidentally set off explosives in his demonstration Monday, killing 21 of them in a huge blast that alerted authorities to the existence of the rural training camp in an orchard north of Baghdad.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-12 02:11:47 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732471 [AuthorName] => Sameer N. Yacoub [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1277260 [Title] => Iraq holding off on an offensive against al-Qaida [Summary] =>

Iraq's government is holding off on waging an all-out offensive to retake two key cities from al-Qaida because of fears that civilian casualties could incite Sunni anger and push moderate tribal leaders to side with the extremists, analysts and military officials said Thursday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-10 09:04:20 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1106390 [AuthorName] => Adam Schreck and Qassim Abdul-Zahra [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1276830 [Title] => UN warns of humanitarian threat in western Iraq [Summary] =>

Iraq's prime minister urged al-Qaeda-linked fighters who have overrun two cities west of Baghdad to give up the battle, vowing yesterday to press forward with a push to regain control of the mainly Sunni areas.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-09 04:42:38 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1747630 [AuthorName] => Sinan Salaheddin [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) ) )
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