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KPBS Midday EditionPresident Barack Obama is sending up to 300 military advisers to help Iraqi forces stem violent sectarian fighting. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego County is home to nearly 80,000 Iraqis and thousands of veterans of Operation Iraqi freedom — two groups with a lot at stake in the future of Iraq. -
KPBS Midday EditionIt didn't take long for a judge to dismiss tenure and other teacher job protections in California or for Sunni militants to overrun Mosul and head toward Baghdad. It may take some time, though, to fill all the managerial vacancies at the North County Transit District. -
As Iraq unravels, San Diego’s Chaldean community is calling on the U.S. to help fleeing refugees. President Obama announced Friday morning that the U.S. will not be sending troops to the area. -
KPBS Midday Edition"Coming Back with Wes Moore" will be held Tuesday night aboard the USS Midway and will feature conversations with service members who have returned from tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Moore is an Army combat veteran who served in Afghanistan. -
New research shows an unique type of titanium-filled dust, found at Camp Victory in Iraq, has been discovered in the lungs of several Iraq War veterans suffering from respiratory illness. -
President Barack Obama has nominated Marine Corps Maj. Gen. David H. Berger to become the next commander of I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton. Berger is currently the commanding general of Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms. -
Command Sgt. Maj. Martin R Barreras, 49, who served 22 years as an Army Ranger, died May 13 in Texas from wounds he suffered in Afghanistan. Barreras was involved in the rescue of Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital in 2003. -
For the first time since February 2003, an entire month passed with no member of the United States military dying in either Afghanistan or Iraq. -
Fred Phelps, controversial leader of a church best known for picketing military funerals, has died at the age of 84. The father of a fallen Twentynine Palms Marine whose lawsuit against the Westboro Baptist Church made its way to the Supreme Court has said he hopes Phelps is "buried in peace."
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