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... November. "The Iraqis have not requested assistance with airstrikes in recent weeks, while our operations are paused. All coalition airstrikes have been coordinated with the Iraqi Security Forces for years," he said. Iraqi military personnel who have benefited from coalition training are making appeals in private, knowing firsthand Iraq's ...
... Jan. 3 that targeted and killed Qassem Suleimani, Iran's most powerful general, but also struck down an Iraq general who was with him. The Iraqi, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, was the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces. In response to what Iraqi leaders ...
... Sunday. The building had been stripped of portraits paying tribute to those killed under fire from security forces. An image of Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani, Iraq's most revered religious figure, remained, and a lone Iraqi flag fluttered on the rooftop. Militiamen interviewed said they had come to clear the ...
... thousands and withdrew support for Iraq's mass anti-government protest movement, only to reverse the decision later. The presence of U.S. troops on Iraqi soil has become the focus of Iraqi politics in the wake of the strike. Parliament passed a non-binding resolution for their ouster and ...
When it announced earlier this week that the number of TBI cases in Iraq had grown to 50, the Pentagon said more could come to light later. No one was killed in the missile attack, which was an Iranian effort to avenge the killing of Qassem Soleimani, its most powerful ...
If the conditions are met, “the resistance will temporarily stop until the last soldier leaves Iraq,” al-Sadr said, referring to American troops. Al-Sadr, whose followers fought U.S. troops after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion to oust dictator Saddam Hussein, derives political capital from his ability to ...
... decrease tensions. We have made international contacts for more consultations with our brotherly and sisterly countries,” al-Thani said in a joint press conference with Iraq's Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammed al-Hakim.Al-Thani met with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi and President Barham Saleh later Wednesday. “We ...
AIN AL-ASAD BASE, Iraq (AP) — U.S. troops were clearing rubble and debris on Monday from a military base housing American soldiers in western Iraq, days after it was struck by Iranian ballistic missiles. The Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq’s western Anbar province is a sprawling ...
Iraq’s government is demanding that U.S. troops leave the country in the wake of last week's drone strike that killed an Iranian general and an Iraqi militia commander. But on Friday, as violent protests continued in Iraq, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. would ...
... Soleimani.So I think we need to keep this in perspective and understand, at the end of the day, we need to be careful, the Iraqis need to be careful, because, as President Trump showed, as he's done with Syria, he could leave Iraq with a tweet. Nick Schifrin ...
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