The Biden administration will soon designate Houthi militants in Yemen as a specially designated global terrorist group, a White House official tells the NewsHour. It follows more than 30 Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea and it's a reversal from the first days of the administration when the U.S. delisted the Houthis...
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iran said late Monday it had launched strikes against a “spy headquarters and gathering of anti-Iranian terrorist groups” shortly after missiles hit an upscale area near the U.S. consulate in Irbil, the seat of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. The security council of the ...
... was “neutralized” in Iraq. Faik Aydin was targeted in an operation run by Turkish intelligence agency MIT, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) inside the Turkey-Iraq frontier, Anadolu reported.The PKK, which maintains bases in northern Iraq, is considered a terror organization by Turkey’s Western allies, including the United ...
The U.S. has thousands of troops in Iraq training Iraqi forces and combating remnants of the Islamic State group, and hundreds in Syria, mostly on the counter-IS mission. They have come under dozens of attacks, though as yet none fatal, since the war began on Oct. 7, with ...
WATCH: Pentagon says air base in Iraq sustained minor damage after attempted attack “Both Iran and Iraq have maintained thus far a clear line that, at the moment, Iraq cannot turn into a playground that could destabilize the Sudani government,” said Mansour, a senior research fellow at the Chatham House ...
... Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, declined to detail which Iranian-backed groups may be responsible for the recent spate of attacks at bases in Iraq and Syria. He said there have been at least 12 attacks in Iraq and four in Syria, and that 21 U.S. personnel received ...
... those seen in Raqqa. Militarily, he said, Israel is seeing a more sophisticated and better armed opponent than the Islamic State was in Syria and Iraq.“There’s a difference between being dug in, going to ground and what we are seeing in Gaza, which is an underground architecture that ...
Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Sunday following a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital, Turkey's defense ministry announced.
... in every sense of the word." The number of Christians in Iraq today is estimated at 150,000, compared to 1.5 million in 2003. Iraq's total population is more than 40 million. Over the past two decades, Iraq's Christian minority has been violently targeted by extremists first ...
... represents the district I live in California, and Senators Menendez and Booker, in which they ask the State Department to do more to get the Iraqi government to intervene and do more to free my sister. But it seems that, so far, everyone is passing the buck. Everyone wants to ...
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