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New rockets target Iraq base where US, UK troops killed
Mar 14, 2020 (AFP)
It was the 23rd such attack since late October on installations across Iraq where American troops and diplomats are based, with the latest rounds growing deadli...
UK says US strikes in Iraq 'proportionate' response
Mar 13, 2020 (AFP)
The Pentagon said the strikes were against the pro-Iranian Kataeb Hezbollah armed faction in response to the death of the three soldiers on the Taji air base on...
US retaliates in Iraq for deadly rocket attack
Mar 13, 2020 (AFP)
The operation targeted five weapons facilities of the Kataeb Hezbollah armed faction across Iraq, the Pentagon said in a statement. "These weapons storage facil...
Civilian among six dead in US air strikes on Iraq
Mar 13, 2020 (AFP)
The Pentagon said the strikes were in retaliation for rocket fire against an Iraqi base on Wednesday night that killed one British and two US military personnel...
Iraq fears escalation after deadly rocket attack, air strike
Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)
Within hours of the attack on Taji air base, north of Baghdad -- the deadliest in years on a base used by US forces in Iraq -- an air strike killed more than tw...
US, UK troops among dead in Iraq rocket attack as coalition responds
Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)
The attack threatens a dangerous escalation, with suspected US-led coalition air strikes promptly targeting Iran-aligned Iraqi fighters in neighbouring Syria, a...
Iraq leaders, UN condemn deadly attack on coalition troops
Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)
A volley of 18 rockets slammed into the Taji air base late Wednesday, killing a British soldier, a US soldier and an American contractor in the deadliest attack...
Pentagon identifies Marines killed in anti-ISIS mission in Iraq
Mar 10, 2020 (UPI)
According to a DoD announcement released Tuesday, Gunner Sgt. Diego D. Pongo, 34, of Simi Valley, Calif., and Capt. Moises A. Navas, 34, of Germantown, Md., die...
Two US soldiers killed in Iraq clashes with IS: coalition
Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)
"Two U.S. service members were killed by enemy forces... during a mission to eliminate an ISIS terrorist stronghold in a mountainous area of north central Iraq,...
Iraq announces new steps against virus, cleric's sermon cancelled
Mar 06, 2020 (AFP)
The Iraqi government's crisis unit said shopping centres will only open three hours a day, schools and universities will be closed until March 21, and public ad...
Pentagon linguist exposed US informants in Iraq: DOJ
Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)
An indictment said Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, was a contract linguist with a "top secret" security clearance who began working ...
Iraq crisis deepens after PM-designate steps down
Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)
Oil-rich but poverty-stricken Iraq has for five months been rocked by the biggest wave of anti-government demonstrations since the 2003 US-led invasion toppled ...
'They're the virus': Iraq outbreak refuels anti-govt protests
Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)
"The real virus is Iraqi politicians," said Fatima, an 18-year-old protester and medical student from Baghdad. "We are immune to almost everything else." Across...
Iraq's Allawi bows out as PM-designate, rockets hit Green Zone
Mar 01, 2020 (AFP)
Allawi's departure prolongs a political vacuum and plunges Iraq deeper into political uncertainty, leaving President Barham Saleh with 15 days to propose a new ...
Virus strikes another blow at religious tourism in Iraq
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
In the southern Shiite holy city of Karbala, hotels have closed and face masks are more common on the street than the full-length black veils worn by female pil...
Iraq parliament postpones confidence vote over quorum
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
The vote has been a key demand of Allawi as well as well populist cleric Moqtada Sadr who had threatened to organise mass protests outside parliament unless law...
US blacklists Iraqi Shiite paramilitary chief after base attacks
Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)
The State Department listed Ahmad al-Hamidawi, secretary general of armed faction Kataib Hezbollah, as a "specially designated global terrorist," freezing any U...
US urges Iraq PM-designate to protect its troops ahead of vote
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
In the first substantive US comment on Mohammad Allawi since he was named on February 1 as a consensus candidate, Pompeo said he told him by telephone that the ...
Iraqi lawmakers schedule confidence vote amid US calls for protection
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
Allawi, who was named as a consensus candidate by Iraq's divided political parties on February 1, had called for a Monday vote, following months of protests dem...
Grave of slain Iraq commander, a new anti-US magnet
Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)
Clad in black, they joined wailing women and men beating their chests in grief at Wadi al-Salam (valley of peace), an ever expanding cemetery. All eyes were on ...
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