Sentences with phrase «iraqi army had»

In 1991, scientists estimated that it would take 5 years to extinguish and cap more than 500 oil wells that the Iraqi army had left burning in Kuwait when it fled before the U.S - led invasion.

He said local security forces in Basra had grown in confidence and ability and the Iraqi army had proved it could hand «the occasional security incidents swiftly and effectively».

But this was shortly after the Iraqi army had turned tail and run leaving IS armed with fairly sophisticated American weapons.

On Feb. 4, Kiam, continuing in his buffoon's role, told a joke at a dinner in Stamford, Conn., saying that what Olson and the Iraqi army had in common was that they both had seen Patriot missiles up close.

The committee warned the Iraqi army would likely continue to need logistical support from the British army.

Not exact matches

Disbanding the Iraqi Army, the only indigenous forces that could have been revitalized and used to help secure Iraq in the aftermath of major combat operations

According to The New York Times, the assessment warned that any American troops serving as advisers would face safety risks given infiltration of the Iraqi army by Sunni extremists and Iran - backed Shiite troops or militia.

The Iraqi Christian Relief Council reported on Twitter that: «Kurdish Peshmerga have been shooting indiscriminately... to make it appear as though the Iraqi Army is injuring civilians».

They've stuck their noses in to virtually every Middle Eastern conflict in the last 70 years, including he Israeli War of Independence, Suez War, Iraqi Army Revolt, Lebanese Civil War, Mosul Revolt, Kirkuk violence, Kurdish Revolt, North Yemen Civil War, Dhofar Rebellion, Six - Day War, The War of Attrition, Jordanian Civil War, Yom Kippur War, Egyptian - Libyan Border War, Intra-Iraqi Kurdish warfare, Iraqi Shia unrest in Karbala, Yemeni War, «The Tanker War», Osiraq Reactor Raid, Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, South Yemen Civil War, 2 Intifadas, Sa «dah Insurgency, and the Gaza War.

This year's Coach of the Year is Scott Denson, who had a distinguished 26 - year career in the U.S. Army where he valiantly deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

In 2014, the US Director of National Intelligence himself, James Clapper, admitted they had underestimated IS and overestimated the Iraqi Army.

The Watervliet Arsenal announced it had won $ 3.5 million in contracts for mortar barrels and assemblies for the Iraqi, Afghanistan, and Lebanese armies.

British troops in Basra have successfully completed transferring frontline security duties to the Iraqi army, the prime minister has said.

The September 2003 death of an innocent Iraqi man at the hands of British soldiers is a «very great stain on the reputation of the Army», the inquiry into his death has concluded.

I think ISIS roared right through the Iraqi army that we re-constituted equipped and trained because they don't have the same goals and fears that we do.

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The weak man is Russell's brother, Rodney Jr. (Casey Affleck), whose Army service as a part of Operation Iraqi Freedom has left him with PTSD and pockets as empty as ever.

He's also a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, helps to run the Empirical Finance Research Blog website and has written a book, Embedded: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army, which you can purchase from Amazon.

ISIS leaves Mosul Museum in ruins Following the Iraqi army's recapture of key sites in Mosul earlier this week, CBS News reports that the city's antiquities museum has been left in «ruins».