Tag: Irak
US strikes five Iranian-backed weapons storage facilities after attack on US soldiers in Iraq
The United States launched on late Thursday strikes on five weapon storage facilities belonging to Kata’ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Brigades) – an Iraqi Shia paramilitary group and part of the Popular Mobilization Forces supported by...
Trump approves possible Pentagon response after attack on US soldiers in Iraq
U.S. President Donald Trump has given the Pentagon the authority to possibly retaliate following an attack in Iraq, allegedly conducted by an Iranian-backed group, that killed two U.S. troops and a British service member, and injured...
Iraqi TV: Coronavirus is an American plot, similar to past Jewish plots
Iraqi political analyst Muhammad Sadeq Al-Hashemi said in a Feb. 26 interview on Al-Ayam TV (Iraq) that in the 1981 thriller novel titled The Eyes of Darkness, American author Dean Koontz had written about...
Ukrainian airliner goes down in Tehran, killing 176
A Ukrainian Boeing 737 passenger jet crashed shortly after takeoff in Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people aboard. Though a spokesman for Iran’s Road and Transportation Ministry claimed that the crash was caused...
Iraqi Shi’ite militia leader: US forces must leave Iraq now
The secretary-general of prominent Iraqi Shi’ite militia Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq said on Sunday that if U.S. forces do not leave Iraq immediately, they will be treated as an occupying army.
In a statement aired on...
The implications of Qassem Soleimani’s assassination
The assassination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport on Jan. 3, 2020, was a major escalation in the conflict between the United States and Iran. To...
Iranian foreign minister: Israel is behind attacks in Iraq, Syria
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday accused Israel of attacking the Iraqi army, in the wake of a series of attacks on bases belonging to the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
In an...