War

US resumes drone strikes in Pakistan, killing 13 with two strikes. This report claims 16 killed.

It looks like Iraq is soon to be gone. Kurds seize Kirkuk. The tribalism the US tried to overcome is winning out. Joe Biden, who proposed dividing into into three sections, may be vindicated.

Iraq's militants, now called terrorists, have a full-blown army. They're imposing Sharia law.

US forces evacuate from Iraq.

"A current U.S. official and a former senior Obama administration official say that means the American training mission at the air field in Balad has been grounded indefinitely.

Twelve U.S. personnel who were stationed at Balad were the first to be evacuated. Several hundred American contractors are still waiting to leave.

They have been training Iraqi forces to use fighter jets and surveillance drones.

Other U.S. contractors at a tank training ground in the city of Taji are still continuing for now."

And you thought the US was out of Iraq. US secretly flying drones over Iraq.