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BREAKING: Iraq: String of apparently coordinated bomb blasts rock Baghdad in evening, kill at least 22.— The Associated Press (@AP) October 7, 2013
... Yarubiyah in Syria — was closed after the Syrian civil war began in 2011. Then in 2014, militants from the Islamic State group seized the area. Iraqi Kurdish forces later retook it. Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said that Syrian and Iraqi officials at the crossing discussed how to ...
... the town of al-Haswa in Babil province, southwest of Baghdad. The journalist was then transferred to a second car that fled the scene. Three Iraqi officials said earlier Tuesday that attempts to negotiate her release had run into obstacles. The two Iraqi security officials and one official from the ...
... After she was freed and handed over to U.S. authorities in September 2025, she said that she had been held by the Iran-allied Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah. The group never officially claimed responsibility for kidnapping her. Associated Press writers Abby Sewell in Beirut, Stella Martany in Irbil, Iraq ...
NATO has pulled its security advisory mission out of Iraq and relocated several hundred personnel involved in the effort to Europe. The move came after a series of attacks from Iran on other troops at British, French and Italian bases in northern Iraq. NATO’s top commander, Gen. Alexus Grynkewich ...
... Iranian forces still have power to control the skies." At the mere possibility that the groups might be mobilizing for deployment, Iran-backed groups in Iraq launched a near-daily volley of air attacks. "So, imagine what they will do if we move there now," Sharifi said. Kawa Camp residents ...
... minister. The war complicates the fraught transition, forcing a caretaker administration with severely limited powers to manage the fallout. But that caretaker status also lets Iraqi leaders deflect responsibility by claiming they lack the authority to act, said Iraq analyst Tamer Badawi. “No one wants to take this big responsibility ...
All 6 crew aboard a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft that crashed in Iraq are dead, the U.S. military said Friday. The military says the circumstances of the incident are being investigated. Earlier, U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, said the crash followed an unspecified ...
The U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, said the crash followed an unspecified incident involving two aircraft in “friendly airspace,” and that the other plane landed safely.
Rescue efforts were underway, U.S. Central Command said Thursday.
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