The new commander of IRGC's Qods Force Esmail Qaani (L) and Lebanese Shiite cleric Muhammad Kawtharani, who has long spearheaded Hezbollah's Iraq policy. (Mashregh) May 05, 2020 Last month the United States offered a prize for providing "any information on the activities, networks and colleagues" of a senior Lebanese Hezbollah official, thought to [...]
The PMU that emerged in the fall of 2014 was also made up of territorial brigades linked to kay Shi’ite shrines. (CNN) April 30, 2020 Iraq’s politics may be getting even more divided after the acting Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, sought to affirm his office’s control over key Iraqi paramilitary groups. The powerful [...]
A member of medical team checks the body temperature of an Iraqi man upon arrival from Iran, east of Basra city, Feb 20, 2020. (EPA-EFE) April 30, 2020 Clutching her tablet in her lap, Rafiqa Ibrahim Radi, an Iraqi mother of three, tears up while watching videos of her newborn son Seif. Lying in [...]
An Iraqi protester hits a poster showing the leader of the IRGC-Quds Force, Gen. Qassim Soleimani with a shoe during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 3, 2019. (AP) By Track Persia April 29, 2020 Iraqi politicians including those affiliated to Iran have chosen Mustafa al-Kadhimi as Iraq’s interim prime minister to [...]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US special representative on Iran Brian Hook (background) arrive to al-Bateen Air Base in Abu Dhabi on September 19, 2019. (AFP) April 27, 2020 The United States has renewed a waiver for Iraq to continue importing Iranian electricity, a State Department official said on Sunday, but [...]
Iran launched attacks on Iraqi bases housing US forces in retaliation for a US drone strike in Baghdad that killed Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, Jan 8, 2020. (Getty) By Nick Givas and Jennifer Griffin April 23, 2020 A new Department of Defense (DOD) report revealed that U.S. troops stationed in Iraq held their posts at IraqAl Assad [...]
Iranian customs checkpoint on a border crossing with Iraq in Kermanshah province. (Twitter) By Alissa J. Rubin and Falih Hassan April 23, 2020 Truck by truck, border post by border post, a power struggle is unfolding between Iraq and Iran over when to reopen the frontier between the two countries, which Iraq closed [...]
This makeshift "disinfection" shed in Qom is set up by the Iraqi Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba militia group. April 19, 2020. (Supplied) April 20, 2020 The representative of a pro-Iran Shiite armed militia in Iraq has announced that members of the group are in Iran to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Abbas Mousavi [...]
Former IRGC commander and alleged Qods Force officer Hassan Pelarak inaugurating the initial phases of a project to expand Zahra shrine in Najaf, Iraq, September 20, 2016. By Track Persia April 18, 2020 On 12 March, United States warplanes struck five targets in Iraq including an airport under construction in the city of [...]
An Iranian organization has been developing and extending the Shrine of Imam Hossein in Karbala, Iraq. (Tasnim) April 17, 2020 An Iranian news agency has reported that despite the coronavirus epidemic, the reconstruction, development and restoration projects carried out by Iran in Iraq's Shiite shrines have continued. Demolishing the buildings in the vicinity [...]
