You Searched For "iraq border" and got 20 results
Sort By:
3 mins read
American border officials detained dozens of people with ties to Iran at the US-Canada border amid escalating tensions
"The vast majority of people being held last night were American citizens," the student, identified…
Ellen Cranley,Ellen Cranley
13 mins read
How a midsize construction firm used political influence, litigation, and media stunts — and secured $2 billion in Trump border-wall contracts
Fisher Sand & Gravel, led by CEO Tommy Fisher, made a sharp recovery after having its prototype per…
Mia Jankowicz
3 mins read
US border patrol denies Iranian-Americans were detained at the border amid ramped-up threats from Iran
The allegations expressed in the tweet and the alleged press release of increased scrutiny and undu…
Ellen Cranley,Ellen Cranley
3 mins read
Meet Brian Kolfage, the leader behind the 'We Build the Wall' fundraising campaign who was just arrested on fraud charges with Steve Bannon
Kolfage founded the private organization in 2018 to help build parts of the US-Mexico border wall t…
Oma Seddiq
3 mins read
Bored on the border: The military's 'border support' mission is killing troop morale
With the main migrant caravan still hundreds of miles from the closest point on the US-Mexico borde…
Caitlin Foster
3 mins read
A former border patrol agent describes the special federal unit deployed in Portland as some of 'the most violent and racist in all law enforcement'
The specially trained officers are the "biggest guys, like the jocks in a football team," former ag…
Oma Seddiq
5 mins read
Here's what Iran might be up to in the US's neighborhood after lobbing missiles into Iraq
"The real retaliation will be taking place in the shadows, not in open battlefields. This is both a…
Christopher Woody
4 mins read
Ongoing tensions between the US and Iran may help drive an ISIS resurgence in Iraq
Iran, too, was deeply involved in the fight against Islamic State. In Syria, the country supported …
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
3 mins read
Watch a US-led coalition airstrike destroy part of ISIS' oil network near the Iraq-Syria border
While efforts by Kurdish militants and their Arab partners in Syria to recapture Raqqa, ISIS' capit…
Christopher Woody
19 mins read
Like 'building a 30-foot wall through Arlington Cemetery': Tribal leaders in Arizona are worried Trump's border wall will decimate sacred sites and leave smugglers no choice but to cut through native land
The US-Mexico border wall construction continues during the pandemic. While it may not stop border …
J. Weston Phippen
2 mins read
The guy who crowdfunded $25 million to build Trump's border wall just got indicted on tax-fraud charges
A grand jury indicted Brian Kolfage and Steve Bannon in 2020 over accusations that they defrauded p…
Azmi Haroun,Jacob Shamsian
2 mins read
The Iranian military chief is dead. Here are the other pro-Iranian forces the US is watching in Iraq.
"General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended perio…
David Choi
2 mins read
Radical Syrian Rebels Are About To Blur The Border With Iraq
Nusra members — the opposition's best frontline fighters — already control wheat silos, a textile f…
Michael Kelley
1 min read
Extremist Militants Overran An Iraq-Jordan Border Post Near Saudi Arabia
After taking two more border posts in western Iraq this weekend, an Iraqi security official has con…
Michael B Kelley
4 mins read
Israel secretly expanded its Iran fight to Iraq, and it risks igniting a much larger conflict
White House National Security Advisor John Bolton publicly warned in early May that "any attack" by…
Ryan Pickrell
3 mins read
ISIS has been militarily defeated in Iraq and Syria
The US and 67 other nations from around the world formed a coalition to train, equip, and provide a…
Alex Lockie
2 mins read
The guy who crowdfunded $25 million to build Trump's border wall can't use the money for his legal defense, a judge ruled
Brian Kolfage was hit with a separate indictment Thursday, claiming he underreported his taxes the …
Jacob Shamsian
3 mins read
CIA Effort In Iraq Places US Spooks On Syria's Three Largest Borders
In June The New York Times reported that CIA officers in southern Turkey was been funneling weapons…
Michael Kelley
3 mins read
MATTIS: The Iraq war was a 'strategic mistake'
He was asked specifically about whether there was a scenario in which he may have retired in protes…
Paul Szoldra
3 mins read
A Navy SEAL platoon in Iraq is being kicked out and sent home early due to reported alcohol abuse
"The commander of the Special Operations Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (in Iraq) orde…