About 200 U.S. military advisers are embedded with the Iraqi forces advancing toward Mosul, the Pentagon said Monday. The advisers are paired with the Iraqi units that they trained with in preparation for the assault on Mosul, a city of an estimated 1 million Iraqis that the Islamic State group has controlled since summer 2014.
Camp Shorab, located in Helmand's desert and built among the ruins of two previous installations, has grown into a base complete with a mess hall, showers, WiFi, a small post exchange and an Afghan-run shop that sells souvenirs and haircuts. As U.S. forces draw down in 2017, the number of advisers there will increase from […]
By Ed O'Keefe — Interested in working for the U.S. government in Iraq? Though the dangers are obvious, the pay and perks can be pretty good. Federal employees and contractors serving here face an almost-daily barrage of rocket attacks, the inability to travel freely, scorching hot temperatures and other cultural and linguistic limitations. But workers with the […]
BY HANNAH ALLAM — January 15 was a relatively quiet day for Baghdad, the bomb-battered capital where Waiel El-Maadawy, an Army veteran and former Florida sheriff’s deputy, had spent years as a contractor for the U.S.-led effort to train Iraqi security forces. El-Maadawy was feeling relieved. He’d just hired an Iraqi he knew, a man nicknamed […]
According to the Department of Defense (DoD), the contractor is being awarded $8,291,844 for a previously issued basic ordering agreement to procure spares, support equipment, and support services for the ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft System operations for the government of Iraq intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services program. Work will be performed in Baghdad, Iraq (90 percent); and […]