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A US army base in Iraq which was targeted in a missile strike last night is also where 200 British personnel are based. No group has as of yet claimed responsibility for the Katyusha rocket attack on Camp Taji, north of Baghdad. Unlike the ballistic missiles which Iran fired at …

The Iraqi government is willing to purchase Russian S-400 air-defense missiles amid heightened tensions in the region The Iraqi government has gravitated toward the Russian defense industry amid simmering tensions between Washington and Baghdad after the killing of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, in a move that might trigger U.S. …

A senior source from the Iraqi Shia Fatih Alliance (Conquest Alliance) has rejected recent media reports which claimed that the Shia majority factions are working on the return of Adil Abdul Mahdi, the caretaker prime minister who handed in his resignation last November. Struggling over consensus about a successor for …

Iraq’s Interim Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi said on Monday that the presence of US forces was decided by the Iraqi government and their withdrawal will be decided by the same body. The Prime Minister’s press office said in a statement on Facebook that Abdul Mahdi said in a meeting …

A spokesman for the Iraqi Armed Forces announced on Sunday that an operational mechanism to expel US troops from Iraq’s territory kicked off. Iraqi media quoted Abdul Kareem Khalaf as saying the necessary mechanism had begun for driving out all foreign forces, including US troops from Iraq’s territory. Some media …

An explosion has rocked Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, where the US Embassy is located. Some reports indicate that a rocket was fired, targeting the area. An unguided (‘Katyusha’) rocket landed inside the Green Zone, Reuters said, citing police sources. There have been no reported casualties so far. Some accounts …

Baghdad has limited the actions of the US military in Iraq, military spokesman Abdel Karim Khalaf said on Saturday, following a drone attack that claimed the lives of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of an Iraqi PMF. “After the recent events that have taken place, …

The bodies of deputy head of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, and others killed in a US airstrike arrived in the holy city of Karbala on Saturday afternoon. According to the media reports, the bodies are planned to be transported to …

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis chanting “Death to America” have joined the funeral procession for Iraqi anti-terror forces chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. The US assassination of the two commanders at Baghdad airport in the early hours of Friday has triggered a wave of …

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has condemned the US assassination of IRGC Quds Force commander General Qassem Soleimani, warning of devastating consequences for Iraq as senior cleric Muqtada al-Sadr put all his forces on alert. The United States confirmed early on Friday that its forces had assassinated Gen. Soleimani and …

US President Donald Trump had ordered the US military to kill Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, the Pentagon has said in a statement. Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), were …

PMF (Hashed al-Sha’abi) leaders have ordered their supporters to leave the heavily fortified US Embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq, as American troops reinforced the besieged facility. footage (from Ruptly) showed protesters with Hezbollah flags withdrawing en masse in their vehicles. It was not immediately clear from the video how many …

Footage has emerged showing US military aircraft dropping off as many as 100 marines to the American Embassy compound in Baghdad amid angry protests outside the diplomatic mission against the recent bloody air raids that targeted the positions of Iraq’s popular forces. The video released by the US Department of …

Iraqi leaders guaranteed the safety of American personnel and property on Tuesday in a telephone call with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the State Department said after protesters attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Pompeo spoke with Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi and President Barham Salih separately from his office in …

American security forces injured more than 60 Iraqis who were protesting in front of the US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday. American security forces fired tear gas to protesters, as well. As reported, after holding funerals for hundreds of martyrs killed during US Monday air raids, Iraqi demonstrators gathered outside …

US Embassy in Baghdad issued a security alert for its citizens in Iraq, asking them to avoid approaching the embassy where Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) supporters are gathering. The alert comes hours after hundreds of pro-Iran Hashd al-Shaabi members and supporters attempted to storm the US Embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone, …

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi warned on Tuesday against any aggression towards foreign embassies and representations in Baghdad, asking protesters outside the U.S. embassy to leave. Thousands of people have gathered in front of the U.S. embassy to condemn Sunday’s U.S. airstrikes in Iraq. ِAbdul Mahdi, who as caretaker …

The United States’ Embassy in Baghdad has been evacuated after thousands of angry Iraqi demonstrators gathered outside the gates of the compound to condemn Washington’s fatal military aggression that targeted Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). Also on Tuesday, Iraqis held a massive funeral procession in the capital Baghdad for the …

Protesters broke into Iraq’s southern Nassiriya oilfield on Saturday and forced employees to cut off electricity from its control station, taking the field offline until further notice, a security source and two oil sources said. The oilfield produces 90,000 barrels a day (BPD) of crude. Protesters chanted “no homeland, no …

Iraqi President Barham Salih has submitted his resignation to parliament after he refused to designate the nominee for the premiership, Assad al-Eidani, arguing that he would rather step down than appoint the position to a figure strongly rejected by protesters. Salih handed his resignation to the Council of Representatives of …