said fighters from al-Ubaid and al-Jabour tribes carried out an operation on the foothills of Hamrain Mountain, located between al-Fatha district and al-Rashad region, on Tuesday evening, Iraq’s ...

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The Obama administration's plan for Iraq - train 20,000 Iraqi troops and incorporate Sunni tribes into a new national guard - is off to a rough start: First, many details of the training program ...