Barack Obama may have ruled out sending “boots on the ground” back to Iraq but in the face of a growing threat from the Islamic State (IS), the Pentagon appears to have hit upon a way to get them back in by the back door. The US Army’s Contracting Command has issued a tender notice […]
WASHINGTON — Afghanistan's disputed election and Iraq's unraveling are giving members of Congress and U.S. allies in the region reason to think President Barack should rethink his decision to withdraw virtually all Americans troops from Afghanistan by the close of 2016. The White House says Afghanistan is different from Iraq, mired in sectarian violence since […]
According to Fed Biz Opps the U.S. Army has posted a solicitation for Security Assistance Mentors and Advisors (SAMA) in Iraq. President Obama previously ordered up to 300 military advisers to Iraq in mid-June to assist Iraqi security forces and assess intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets in the region about 500 or so who are now on […]
President Obama has ordered some 500 U.S. troops back to Iraq both to shore up security in Baghdad as ISIS fighters threaten the city and up to the north to assist Kurdish forces and help rescue some 30,000 Yazidis trapped on Mt. Sinjar. And as the troops head back, non-boot-wearing federal contractors, performing similar advisory […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is working to provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to the tens of thousands of innocent children, women, and men displaced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) assault on Sinjar and surrounding areas of northern Iraq. USAID is deploying humanitarian response experts […]