Iraq conflict: Clashes on approaches to Baghdad

BBC ^ | 17 June 2014 Last updated at 06:32 ET Share this pageEmail Print Share this page | BBC

[WhiskeyX]

Iraqi government forces are engaged in heavy clashes with Sunni insurgents who have made major advances in the past week.

[WhiskeyX]

Includes multiple sub-articles, video, maps-illustrations in a broad coverage of the current events in Iraq and Syria. Discusses the likely break-up of Iraq along sectarian lines.

[bert]

bfl

[ken5050]

Sounds like ISIS forces are doing a “thunder run” to Bagdad..

[SampleMan]

I bet that there isn’t one “wedding party” struck by Iraqi airstrikes.

I have come to detest these people. They are nothing but one long continual blight on the rest of humanity.

[Principled]

Very informative thanks for posting.

[DeaconRed]

"Sounds like ISIS forces are doing a “thunder run” to Bagdad.."

And thanks to ZERO & Hagel they have our weapons. Many are very high tech.
Another FU by the one who is NOT VERY WISE. . . .

[junta]

Let me know when they start building the pipelines from the gulf states to the Med.

[scooby321]

T. Boone Pickens said soon gas will be 140 to 200 a barrel for oil soon.

[livius]

Note we’re calling them “Sunni insurgents” now, so Bambi can go with the comforting myth that this is “just a sectarian squabble.” ISIS is killing Sunnis as well, that is, anybody who is not on board with the new caliphate. There are probably some disaffected Sunnis joining them, but this is AQ (in its new ISIS incarnation) and nothing but.

[Joe 6-pack]

Is that the same T. Boone Pickens who said the future of energy is wind?

[AU72]

Now is the time to get the US Embassy complex ready for the mother of all demolitions.

[Does so]

Google graphic ISIS "recruitment" videos under "Clashing of the Swords". We should realize that Iraqi soldiers—friendly allies to the US—are far more secular than the barbaric ISIS hoards. Allies are being terrorized during "Islamic Purity Testing", and shortly thereafter are slaughtered as POWs. Even passive cars on the highway are randomly riddled with bullets by ISIS, then the bodies searched for cash. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKELtjoNrPderU

[erlayman]

Well, at least airlines have already passed through at least one fare hike in the last month...now they don’t have to use additional fuel surcharges as indirect fare hikes and masquerade them as fuel. :)

[Grampa Dave]

Planes are still landing at Baghdad Airport. They landed and took off all day and early evening yesterday.

Iraqi Airlines have been landing and taking off regularily since yesterday.

IAW (Iraqi Air Line) 124 landed a few minutes ago.

http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/10

[Grampa Dave]

United Emerits EK944 / UAE944 just took off from Baghdad Airport. It veered east and flew over the city of Baghdad.

http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/10

[Grampa Dave]

Southbound Iraqi Air 924 appears to be heading south and may loop back north to land at Baghdad Airport.

http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/9

[Grampa Dave]

Southbound Iraqi Air 924 is in the approach vector to land at Baghdad Airport.

http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/10

[Uncle Miltie]

“Parts of the city of Baquba - just 60km (37 miles) from Baghdad - were briefly taken over by the rebels.”

I was wrong by a day. :-S

[Grampa Dave]

Southbound Iraqi Air 924 landed at 13:35.

The link below shows a wider area of planes flying over Iraq. Seems to be a lot more planes in Iraqi air space today:

http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/7

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