Several Arab media have claimed that in recent hours a second US plane crashed near Iraq’s al-Anbar province, learned alghadeer.com. According to media’s sources, the aircraft is of the US Air Forces, Spartan C-27J transport aircraft and there were four people on board. According to the Russian Avia.pro website in …
Read More »Trump panics at Bolton’s possible testimony
US President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter as the possibility of John Bolton’s testimony grows stronger. The president released a tweetstorm on Wednesday, calling for an impeachment trial to end immediately in the US Senate, where his allies hold the majority. Mark Penn, Harris Poll: “It’s time to end …
Read More »Iran cannot access $5 billion of energy money in Iraq: Official
Iran’s money from exports of gas and electricity has piled up to $5 billion in a bank account in Iraq, but Tehran cannot transfer it because of the US sanctions, an official says. Iraq relies on Iran for trade and natural gas that generates as much as 45% of its …
Read More »US Supreme court allows Trump to enforce new hardline immigration policy
The US supreme court has allowed the Trump administration to block immigrants seeking permanent residency in America on the basis of their likelihood to use public benefits such as housing assistance, healthcare, and food stamps even for short periods of time. In response, the New York Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio …
Read More »Palestinian Authority Asks for Arab League Emergency Meeting Over Mideast Peace Deal
The Palestinian Authority asks the Arab League to hold an emergency meeting on Saturday over US President Donald Trump’s plan to unveil his Israel-Palestine peace agreement, the so-called deal of the century, to the public, Palestinian Ambassador to Egypt Diab Al-Louh said on Tuesday, as reported by the official WAFA …
Read More »UK will allow Huawei to supply 5G — with ‘tight restrictions
The UK government will allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to play a limited role in supplying the country’s 5G networks, it has been announced today. The government said the package of restrictions being announced on “high risk” 5G vendors will allow it to “mitigate the potential risk posed by the …
Read More »Trump: Middle East plan to be announced Tuesday will be ‘good for everybody’
US President Donald Trump said Monday that his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan — already rejected by the Palestinians — has a “chance” and will be unveiled Tuesday. “I think it might have a chance,” he said alongside visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Trump told reporters the …
Read More »Iraq’s Armed Forces open investigation into the bombing in Baghdad
Iraq’s Armed Forces opened an investigation this Monday to determine the origin and perpetrators of a rocket bombing that hit the Baghdad Green Zone, where embassies and government offices reside. A report shows that at least five Katyusha-type projectiles hit the site and four of them within the US diplomatic …
Read More »Taliban says it shot down US military aircraft
In a statement released by the Taliban on Monday evening, they officially said that the movement downed a US military plane in Taliban-controlled territory in Afghanistan. “The plane that crashed in Ghazni was a US military aircraft and we shot it down,” the statement read. A ‘US military’ plane crashed …
Read More »US warns Britain’s sovereignty in jeopardy over Huawei deal
Britain’s sovereignty will be in jeopardy if it allows Chinese tech giant Huawei to build its 5G network, Donald Trump’s Secretary of State has warned. In an escalation of pressure on Boris Johnson, Mike Pompeo said the UK had a “momentous” decision to make this week over whether to allow …
Read More »Trump falsely claims House Democrats never asked John Bolton to testify.
An explosive allegation concerning John Bolton has given new ammunition to Democrats’ demands for the Republican-controlled Senate to call the former national security adviser to testify at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. The New York Times reported that the book manuscript Bolton submitted to the White House for review alleges …
Read More »Coronavirus: First European Cases as Beijing Cracks Down, Locking Down 56 Million People
Three cases of the deadly Chinese Coronavirus have been confirmed in France, the first in Europe, as the Chinese government moves to lockdown whole cities impacted by the disease, where an estimated 56 million people are now subjected to travel restrictions. The first cases in Europe have been confirmed in …
Read More »3 dead US fire bombers retrieved from Australian forest
The bodies of three U.S. flying firefighters and the cockpit voice recorder from the water bomber in which they died battling Australia’s unprecedented wildfire crisis were retrieved on Saturday as their grieving families arrived in Sydney, officials said. Ian McBeth of Great Falls, Montana, Paul Clyde Hudson of Buckeye, Arizona, …
Read More »Video: Over 4 Million People Join March Against US Presence in Iraq
At least four million people Friday demanded the departure of U.S. troops from Iraq with a march in Baghdad, which was convened by Iraqi resistance and cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr three weeks after the murder of Iraq’s PMF commander, Abu Mahdi Al-Mohandes. At the country’s capital, streets were filled with an …
Read More »34 US soldiers diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after Iranian missile strike.
Thirty-four US service members have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries following the Iranian missile attack on US forces in Iraq earlier this month, Pentagon spokesman Jonathon Hoffman said Friday. Seventeen service members, who were flown to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, have returned to duty in Iraq. …
Read More »‘Idiot’ Trump had better pull out troops from Iraq voluntarily: PMF
President Donald Trump had better voluntarily ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq before they are forced out, says a high-ranking official from the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), better known by the word Hashed al-Sha’abi. “Today all Iraqis, men, and women have poured out onto the streets to …
Read More »Trump ‘should be removed’: impeachment trial
Lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff called dramatically for the Senate to remove President Donald Trump from office Thursday, saying the US leader cannot be trusted to put the country’s interests ahead of his own. “The American people deserve a president they can count on, to put their interest first,” …
Read More »Videos: Buildings shake, debris rains from sky as ‘Massive blast’ rocks Houston.
A massive explosion has reportedly rattled homes in Houston, Texas with the blast echoing across the city, shattering windows and waking residents in the early hours of Friday morning. The explosion reportedly took place at a factory in the Gessner area of the city. Video from a home doorbell captured …
Read More »Pictures: Iraqi people hold a massive anti-US rally in Baghdad
According to Iraq’s local media, people from “all of the Iraqi provinces” have gathered in the ongoing rally to condemn the Americans’ illegal presence in the country, after the US assassinated Iraqi PMF commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Baghdad earlier this month. The protesters are carrying banners and chanting slogans …
Read More »Resisting US; British officials propose limited 5G role for China’s Huawei
British officials have proposed granting Huawei a limited role in the UK’s future 5G network, resisting U.S. calls for a complete ban over fears of Chinese spying, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The recommendation, made at a meeting of officials from senior government departments on Wednesday, comes …
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