Iraqi security forces are deployed in front of the US embassy in the capital Baghdad on January 1, 2020. (AFP) December 3, 2020 The U.S. is withdrawing some staff from its embassy in Baghdad, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Thursday, temporarily reducing personnel amid regional security concerns. U.S. Ambassador Mathew Tueller said the [...]
US soldiers stand guard during the handover ceremony of Qayyarah Airfield to Iraqi forces, in the south of Mosul, March 27, 2020. (AP) December 3, 2020 In a quest to root out ISIS group hideouts over the summer, Iraqi forces on the ground cleared nearly 90 villages across a notoriously unruly northern province. [...]
An Iranian organization has been developing and extending the Shrine of Imam Hossein in Karbala, Iraq. (Tasnim) By John Davison December 2, 2020 In September, a senior Iranian commander made an unannounced visit to one of Shi’ite Islam’s holiest sites in the southern Iraqi city of Kerbala. Hassan Pelarak, a top officer in [...]
The US Department of Justice seized a website affiliated with Iraq's Badr Organization. (Screengrab) December 2, 2020 The US Justice Department has seized a website belonging to Iraq’s paramilitary Badr Organization in what one expert said is part of a broader US attempt to pressure Iran-backed groups in the country. “There’s been much [...]
Cardboard cutouts of late Iran's IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis are seen during a memorial day of their killing in Baghdad, Iraq Febr 11, 2020. (Reuters) November 27, 2020 The Iraqi military is training a former member of an Iran-backed militia, who is under U.S. sanctions for [...]
Flames emerge from flare stacks at the oil fields in Kirkuk, Iraq October 18, 2017. (REUTERS) November 21, 2020 Washington has granted Iraq a shortened 45-day sanctions waiver to import Iranian gas that will expire days before US President Donald Trump’s term ends, an Iraqi official said Saturday. Baghdad buys gas and electricity [...]
An Iraqi soldiers stands guard in front US military air carrier at the Qayyarah air base in northern Iraq. (AFP) November 19, 2020 A handful of shadowy Shia militias have emerged over the last year in Iraq intent on targeting US coalition forces and Western interests in the country. The new militias, loyal [...]
Iraqi Shia militiamen hold portraits of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Khomeini (C), Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (L) and Iraqi Shia cleric Ali al-Sistani during a parade in Baghdad. (Reuters) By Baria Alamuddin November 16, 2020 Arab investments are a “threat” to Iraq: This is what pro-Iran elements are claiming following the landmark meeting [...]
Iraqi policemen demonstrate combat techniques during a training session in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP) November 16, 2020 Iran and Iraq are planning for military cooperation in the near future, announced Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri. Bagheri indicated that the new collaboration would lead to greater stability [...]
Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga members of the KDPI inspect damage at their party headquarters in Koysinjaq, Irbil, Sept 12, 2018. (AFP) By Havari Yousefi November 13, 2020 The Islamic Republic of Iran has carried out more assassinations in Iraqi Kurdistan than in any other country or region of the world, with 259 people killed and [...]
