Battle for Iraq
The VICE News Guide to the World — Week of September 11
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called the vote "unconstitutional and illegitimate.”
Leading the Fight Against the Islamic State: The Battle for Iraq (Dispatch 10)
In an exclusive interview with VICE News, the chancellor of Kurdistan's Security Council discusses the limitations of Western support to the Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants across Iraq and Syria.
The Battle For Iraq (Dispatch 8)
VICE News embeds with PKK fighters who are defending Kurdish villages from the Islamic State.
The Battle for Iraq
Up until a week ago, the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq was one of the most hotly contested areas in the country. But now that the Iraqi army has fled and ISIS has been repelled, the Kurds are fully in control, and hope to integrate the city into the...
Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki Ignores Calls to Build Bridges With Sunni Peers
Dozens died in Iraq today as the country threatens a return to the brutal sectarian violence which once threatened to destroy it.