Iraq
An explosion at a military base of a powerful Iran-allied militia in Iraq left one militiaman dead and eight others injured, the Iraqi army reported on Saturday amid reports that the facility came under airstrikes. The casualties resulted from a blast and a fire early Saturday at Camp Kalsu in the province of Babil in Iraq, housing premises of the Iraqi security forces and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), the Security Media Cell added, according to Iraq’s official news agency INA. A committee has been formed to investigate the cause of the blast and fire, it said, citing initial findings ...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden and Iraq's Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani said Monday they would keep working towards the withdrawal of a US-led anti-jihadist coalition in the country. Their meeting at the White House came amid soaring tensions in the Middle East after Iraq's neighbor Iran launched a massive aerial attack on US ally Israel over the weekend. The US-led military coalition was formed in 2014 to fight the Islamic State group -- the year the jihadists overran nearly a third of Iraq's territory and swaths of neighboring Syria. Iraq has been trying to stay out of reg...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden said Monday he wants to prevent the Middle East conflict from spreading but vowed to defend Israel after Iran launched an unprecedented aerial attack on the key US ally. Biden also reiterated his desire for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas following the October 7 attacks. "Iran launched an unprecedented aerial attack against Israel, and we launched an unprecedented military effort to defend it. Together with our partners, we defended that attack," Biden said as he met Iraq's prime minister at the White House. "The United States is commi...
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Iraq celebrated the end of Ramadan this Wednesday. During the day, children attended carnivals specially set up for the celebration of Eid al-Fitr. There they received gifts, money and other special treats. Families also visited their relatives and friends to exchange greetings and enjoy festive meals.
Euronews (English)
Turkey is inflicting devastating damage to critical civillian infrastructure in north-eastern Syria during attacks on suspected Kurdish militant positions, a rights organization said on Friday. "As the world's attention remains fixed on the devastating conflict unfolding in Gaza, another crisis is intensifying under the radar in northeast Syria," Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement. Turkey's airstrikes and drone attacks on critical civilian infrastructure in north-east Syria "are putting livelihoods at risk and severing communities from electricity, medical care, and other essential s...
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Baghdad (AFP) - An American air strike in Iraq on Wednesday killed a senior commander from a pro-Iran armed group who was involved in attacks on Washington's troops in the region, the US military said. Washington launched a wave of strikes on Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria last week following the killing of three American troops in neighbouring Jordan on January 28, and the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the commander killed Wednesday was targeted "in response to the attacks on US service members". The strike killed "a Kataeb Hezbollah commander responsible for directly planning and ...
AFP
The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on Friday night, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend. The massive barrage of strikes hit more than 85 targets at seven locations, including command and control headquarters, intelligence centres, rockets and missiles, drone and ammunition storage sites and other facilities that were connected to the militias or the IRGC’s Quds Force, the Guard’s expeditionary unit that handles...
Euronews (English)
The United States and Iraq have held a first session of formal talks in Baghdad aimed at winding down the mission of the US-led military coalition formed to fight the Islamic State group in Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement that he had sponsored “the commencement of the first round of bilateral dialogue between Iraq and the United States of America to end the mission of the Coalition in Iraq." A statement released by the coalition said that working groups made up of Iraqi and coalition military officials will assess “the threat of Daesh (IS), operational an...
Euronews (English)
Iraq secured their spot in the knockout stages of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup with a 2-1 victory over Japan in the second round of Group E matches at Education City Stadium on Friday, thanks to two first-half goals from Ayman Hussein. Hussein's headers, scored within the opening five minutes, propelled Jesus Casas' team to success in a first half dominated by an energetic Iraqi side, reminiscent of their historic 2007 AFC Asian Cup-winning team. Iraq's triumph saw the Mesopotamian Lions end Japan's 11-match winning run in all competitions, which saw the Samurai Blue claim the scalps of Germany, Tur...
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Washington (AFP) - Iran-backed militants launched ballistic missiles at a base hosting US forces in western Iraq, causing one Iraqi and possible American casualties, the US Central Command said Saturday. "Multiple ballistic missiles and rockets were launched by Iranian-backed militants in western Iraq targeting al-Assad Airbase," CENTCOM said in a social media post, which placed the time of the attack at 6:30 pm Baghdad time (1530GMT) Saturday evening. Most of the projectiles were intercepted by the base's air defense systems but "others impacted on the base," the statement said. "A number of ...
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