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                    [Title] => US commander: More US, coalition forces likely to fight IS
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There is a "good potential" that more US and coalition forces will be needed to fight the Islamic State group, the top commander of military operations in Iraq and Syria said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2016-02-01 17:00:44 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1468725 [AuthorName] => Lolita C. Baldor [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1540156 [Title] => IS steps up assault on western Iraqi town after losses [Summary] =>

The Islamic State group has stepped up attacks on the western Iraqi town of Haditha, where at least 45 Iraqi security forces and Sunni tribal fighters have been killed in clashes over the past three days and another 30 wounded, according to Iraqi officials.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-06 15:38:26 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1539808 [Title] => US-led coalition: IS has lost 30 percent of its territory [Summary] =>

The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said yesterday that the militants have lost 30 percent of the territory they once held in Iraq and Syria.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-05 14:17:20 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1537976 [Title] => Iraq tells Turkey to pull out of north, threatens action [Summary] =>

Iraq on yesterday reiterated its demand that Turkish troops withdraw from a northern camp where they are training anti-Islamic State fighters, warning that it will consider military action if the soldiers remain.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-30 15:04:27 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1395020 [Title] => Iraqi forces, Islamic State group battle in Ramadi [Summary] =>

Iraqi soldiers backed by Sunni fighters launched a major operation yesterday to retake a section of the city of Ramadi seized by Islamic State group militants, an official and residents said.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-23 03:28:04 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732471 [AuthorName] => Sameer N. Yacoub [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1387940 [Title] => Islamic State mass killings now target Iraqi tribe [Summary] =>

Islamic State group militants publicly shot dead 36 Sunni tribesmen, women and children yesterday, an Iraqi official and a tribal leader said, pushing the total number of members slain by the extremists in recent days to more than 200.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-04 07:05:22 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732471 [AuthorName] => Sameer N. Yacoub [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1346100 [Title] => UN warns Iraq of 'chaos' if no political progress [Summary] =>

The UN urged Iraq's leaders Saturday to overcome their deep divisions and move quickly to form a new government that can unite the country and confront a surging militant threat, warning that failure to do so "risks plunging the country into chaos."

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-14 02:06:18 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1660514 [AuthorName] => Qassim Abdul Zahra [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => 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] => ) [8] => 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] => ) [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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