Sentences with phrase «left iraq»

In 2006 he left Iraq, joining the ranks of more than 2 million Iraqis who have fled since 2003.

We have left Iraq with our forces and we have downsized our forces out of Afghanistan; we do not need all this vehicles anymore, so Nigeria asked for this vehicles and we gladly provided them.»

Since then the British government has maintained its line that it does not negotiate with terrorists - and has left the Iraq government to deal with the problem.

It was derided as a single - issue party but survived for many years after British troops had left Iraq.

«The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998.

Tor Valla, a water engineer with Norwegian Church Aid, a partner of the ecumenical Action by Churches Together, left Iraq just before the bombs started falling.

So he had resigned, and prepared to leave Iraq for good.

Many Christian families that CNN spoke to Wednesday said they feared for their own safety and wanted to leave Iraq, but didn't have the means to do so.

Recent days have also brought both threats of additional violence against Christians and at least one call (by a Syriac Orthodox archbishop) for Christians to leave Iraq altogether.

The Bush administration insists that if we leave Iraq our enemies will «win» or — even more improbably — «follow us home.»

I believe that, if we leave Iraq and our other imperial enclaves, we can regain the moral high ground and disavow the need for a foreign policy based on preventive war.

If we say, for example, that people leaving Iraq or Syria will count as survival migrants, we must be making an assumption about what is going to happen in those countries in the future; we are ruling out the possibility of conflict ceasing and the economy recovering in a few years» time.

These forces will have completed their tasks in the first half of 2009 and will then leave Iraq,» a joint statement said.

Tony Blair has given his backing to general Richard Dannatt, the head of the army who called for British troops to leave Iraq «sometime soon».

The media share in Britain's failure: «The extent of Britain's fiasco has been masked by the media's relief that we are at last leaving Iraq.

As the last of our so - called combat troops leave Iraq — leaving behind a mere 50,000 other troops and who knows how many Haliburton mercerancies — is might be good for a moment to focus on Who did it?

He plays a song about the sadness of leaving Iraq while his two toddler boys bob up and down, kicking their feet to the music.

then our troops would have to leave Iraq and go to Darfur,» responded another, «but more importantly haven't enough people died in the genocide we really don't need anymore people to die.»

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If successful, the offensive would leave Islamic State fighters - and the 1.5 million civilians still living in Mosul - encircled by an advancing coalition of forces which seeks to crush the hardline Sunni militants in their Iraq stronghold.

Roman, who lost his left leg in 2007 while serving his third tour of duty in Iraq, is currently starring in ads for Citigroup, Chobani and Liberty Mutual.

In 2016, there were several high - profile attacks in Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Pakistan, Iraq, France, Turkey and the United States that left scores dead or injured.

Wenzel was 15 when she left home for Turkey, where she crossed the border to ISIS territory and found herself sent to Iraq.

Last year, Iraq's government began withholding crucial vehicle permits, leaving the company's teams unable to meet the needs of key clients.

The Conservative Leader's sound bite file on everything from taxes to Iraq, health care, gay marriage, nature, left wingers and more.

Then came last month's NDP convention, where delegates behaved as though they just couldn't wait to turn their party into a kind of wholly - owned Canadian subsidiary of the American anti-war left - adopting even the exact wording of what is essentially a brand - name American slogan that refers to the U.S. occupation of Iraq: Support Our Troops.

But no honest appraisal of everything that has gone wrong in Iraq will absolve the Anglo - American «anti-war» left for its utter abandonment of the Iraqi people following the invasion.

«After calling continuously for weeks for Director Pompeo to support President Trump's belief that the Iraq war was a mistake, and that it is time to leave Afghanistan, today I received confirmation the Director Pompeo agrees with @realDonaldTrump,» wrote Paul.

After a special operations deployment to Iraq in 2004, I left active duty to be a firefighter in Southern California and remained in the Reserves.

On the other hand, oil output from Iraq increased by 30,200 barrels per day, which leaves them and previously exempt Nigeria as the only OPEC members whose production is well in excess what their pact calls for, as can be seen in the table below:

Militant group I.S. (formerly ISIS) has been advancing across large parts of Iraq forcing religious minorities to leave their homes.

They had been teachers in Iraq, but they left in the nascent stage of their careers, so they hadn't built up much.

The Bethnal Green schoolgirls were among more than 800 Britons believed to have left the UK to join IS or other militant groups in Syria and Iraq, ITV News said.

Whereas in some countries rape victims are left behind to tell the tale, in others, such as Iraq, they are systematically sold into sex slavery by their captors.

Obama claimed that American withdrawal left behind «a sovereign, stable and self reliant Iraq.»

But Obama left behind a fragile Iraq that was vulnerable to the very worst outside influences.

I believe we are making a serious mistake in leaving Afghanistan too soon and too fast, just as we did in Iraq.

Imagine if you were a soldier in Iraq, or part of this global war on terrorism, and you were given the mission of infiltrating Al Qaeda, and persuading some of them to leave Al Qaeda to fight on the side of America, and fight against Al Qaeda instead.

Leviathan co-opts a disciple of Jesus into the merciless cycle of violence that kills battalions of soldiers in countless countries and leaves bodies hanging on a bridge in Iraq.

I had a good friend that I worked with for two years who was Kurdish and he was so friendly and so not stereotypical Muslim that vistors were shocked when we told them that he had to leave to return to Iraq for his dying Father.

Not that long ago, he and his family were refugees, living in Turkey, having left their home country of Iraq.

i know he said he would remove troops from iraq in 16 months (actually took 32) but when did he say he would leave afghanistan in 12 months?

Walter Russell Mead was an early advocate of expanding American power in the vacuum left by the end of the cold war, and he supported the Iraq War in 2003.

It also warned that many believers who have left Syria and Iraq see «little incentive» to return.

Concerning Syria, the «Understanding the recent movements of Christians leaving Syria and Iraq» report estimates that the Christian population of around two million six years ago has «roughly halved».

A new report estimates that between half and 80 per cent of Christians have left Syria and Iraq since the Syrian civil war started in 2011.

Although this is a much lower figure than the number who fled in Syria, most estimates suggest there are only around a quarter of a million Christians left in Iraq, making the impact of the recent displacement there so much greater.

There is no moderate armed opposition left so any regime change would just open up the situation to another Iraq, another Libya - that's the last thing they want.»

Early in his career, he was something of a Trotskyite, but in the years following September 11, 2001, he emerged as a strong advocate of the Iraq war and, much to the chagrin of his colleagues on the left, a supporter of George W. Bush.

Weeks earlier, Tillerson took an entirely unprecedented step of personally deciding that three countries — Afghanistan, Burma and Iraq — should be left off of CSPA entirely, despite recommendations from State Department officials and intelligence gathered by the department itself.

A vast majority of U.S. journalists in Iraq are / were embedded reporters (to my understanding), and while I wouldn't be the one to volunteer leaving the protection that the military offers in a place of war and conflict, in order to tell the whole story, we need journalists who are brave enough to.