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Recent drone attacks in Kurdistan are once again bringing the issue of Iraq’s Iran-backed militias to the fore. On July 30 ...
Elizabeth Tsurkov has been held in Iraq for over 860 days after being kidnapped by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed ...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced American objections to pending Iraqi legislation concerning the Popular Mobilization ...
U.S. and Iraqi forces, backed by Polish army helicopters, swept through Shiite militia strongholds south of Baghdad on Saturday, rounding up dozens of militants and killing two. The ...
Iraq’s proposed controversial law to restructure the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) could “risk” the ...
Tehran’s leaders anticipate another war with Israel and have instructed their proxies to remain on high alert for a potential attack wave. Jerusalem has not ruled out the possibility of a new conflict ...
A Kurdish lawmaker in the Iraqi parliament on Monday said the Iraqi government lacks control over armed groups behind recent ...
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani met with the new incoming commander of the anti-ISIS mission. The meeting took ...
The prime minister of Iraq says his country thwarted over two dozen attempts by militias to fire missiles and drones at Israel during the 12-day war with Iran last month.
We know that the Israeli government is seeking to widen the conflict in the region,” he said, stressing his government’s ...
The Kurdistan autonomous region is growing increasingly frustrated with Baghdad’s response. The leaders have likely communicated this to their Western allies. Baghdad needs to do more to respond to ...
There have been more than 150 rocket and drone attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria since mid-October carried out by Iranian-backed militias claiming they are in support of Palestinians in the ...