Iraqi protesters burning Iranian flag during demonstration in Karbala, Iraq, November 6, 2019. (AP) December 7, 2019 The United States on Friday blacklisted three Iran-backed Iraqi paramilitary leaders over their alleged role in killings of anti-government protesters in Iraq, the US Treasury Department said. They are the latest US sanctions to target Iraqi [...]
A picture published by the Tasnim agency showing Iranian Quds Force commander Qasim Soleimani in Najaf, Iraq. (Supplied) December 6, 2019 Iran wants to name the next prime minister of Iraq. Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Mohammed Kawtharany, a top official with [...]
Demonstrators run from tear gas thrown by Iraqi security forces during the ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq November 12, 2019. (Reuters) December 5, 2019 Iran urged its citizens against heading to protest sites in Iraq after demonstrators torched its country’s consulate in Najaf city earlier this week. It marks the third time [...]
A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen in Tehran in September 2017. (Reuters) December 5, 2019 Iran is using the current upheaval in Iraq to secretly move and stockpile short-range ballistic missiles in its neighboring country, the New York Times reports citing US intelligence [...]
Demonstrators gather as flames start consuming Iran's consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on November 27. (AP) December 4, 2019 Anti-government protesters burned an Iranian consulate in southern Iraq for a third time on Tuesday, as the country’s political leaders continued talks over selecting a new prime minister following weeks of [...]
Medical crew carry a wounded man during ongoing anti-government protests in Najaf, Iraq, on Dec. 1, 2019. (REUTERS) By Baria Alamuddin December 3, 2019 With 400 already dead, the killings in Iraq escalated horrifically at the weekend following the torching of Iran’s consulate in the holy city of Najaf. About 70 protesters were gunned [...]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meets with Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi in Tehran, Iran, April 6, 2019. (REUTERS) December 3, 2019 After two months of suffering and bloodshed, following the Nasiriyah uprising in Iraq, the red line of the Iranian regime in the preservation of Adel Abdul Mahdi as the Iraqi prime [...]
Demonstrators gather as flames start consuming Iran's consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on November 27. (AP) December 2, 2019 Civil Defense vehicles were seen rushing to the Iranian consulate in Najaf in southern Iraq to extinguish a fire ignited by protesters for the second time in less than a week, [...]
Iraqi Shia militiamen hold portraits of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Khomeini (C), Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei (L) and Iraq's Shia cleric Ayatollah Sistani during a parade in Baghdad, Sep 10, 2017. (Reuters) By John Davison and Ahmed Aboulenein November 30, 2019 After armed men raided the home of Hussein Adel al-Madani and his [...]
Anti-government protesters take cover while Iraq security forces fire during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 4, 2019. (AP) November 30, 2019 On Thursday, November 28, 2019, Iraqi security forces shot dead at least 35 protesters. The demonstrators stormed and torched the Iranian consulate in the holy city of Najaf. Reuters reported that [...]
