During its first month in office, the Biden administration did not reverse its predecessor's policy of keeping troops deployed in northeastern Syria to "keep the oil." On Thursday, the White House approved airstrikes against the bases of...
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Geoff LaMear
Security, Middle East
Rather than juggle between confrontation and appeasement, the United States can reject this dichotomy altogether and simply leave militarily.
Rockets struck the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Monday, following...
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Qasem Soleimani, longtime commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds extraterritorial fighting force, was killed in a US drone strike attack in Baghdad in January 2020. Tehran reacted by lobbing over a dozen ballistic missiles...
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Iraq’s military said at least three rockets hit Baghdad on Monday, including two in the city’s fortified Green Zone, but caused no casualties.U.S. military officials say initial information suggests the Katyusha rockets that landed in the Green...
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The base was returned to the Iraqi Air Force in 2011 after the US withdrawal from the country. In August, the air base was similarly hit by three rockets, although no casualties were reported.
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The attack was the first on a Western military or diplomatic facility in Iraq in nearly two months, following a spate of rocket strikes in Baghdad in late 2020. The previous attack targeting the US military base in Erbil happened in September last...
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BAGHDAD — Fourteen rockets struck outside Irbil international airport near where U.S. forces are based in northern Iraq late Monday, killing one non-US civilian contractor and wounding five Americans, according to U.S. defense officials....
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Patrik PaulovOn February 13, 1991, a horrific massacre took place in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. The U.S. coalition bombed a shelter and killed more than 400 people.
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Michael Rubin
Security, Middle East
It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the PKK could eventually take over Erbil.
The Iraqi government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil signed a joint security agreement on Oct....
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By NADIM SHEHADI On the day that Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in Baghdad last January, he was
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Pedalling a correspondent around Washington, D.C., last week, a pedicab driver confronted a Green Zone of eerily empty streets.
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Hmmm. What has changed that has made jihadis feel more emboldened? It’s a real head-scratcher… “First big suicide attack in Baghdad for 3 years kills at least 32,” Reuters, January 21, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):...
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CAIRO (Sputnik) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has dismissed four high-ranking security officials, including the country's federal police head, following the twin terrorist attacks in the capital of Baghdad, Yehia Rasool, a spokesperson...
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Baghdad Massacre: ISIS Blamed In Twin Suicide Attack Which Kills & Wounds Dozens
A daylight twin suicide bombing has rocked Baghdad commercial and market districts on Thursday, killing at least 32 and wounding multiple dozens...
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Residents of the nation's Capitol face a Baghdad-style occupation as the US secret service has incorporated the term “Green Zone” into its inauguration security map.
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Escobar: Baghdad On The Potomac - Welcome To The Blue Zone
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Saker blog,
The season opening of the Joe and Kammy Regime Change Show could not be a more appropriate roomful of mirrors reflecting the...
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Major Airstrikes Rock Iran-Backed Iraqi Militias Near Baghdad, Casualties Reported
update: Moments ago US Central Command denied that the United States was involved in the reported airstrikes on Iraqi paramilitary positions south of...
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In the days leading up to the Biden inaugural, the nation’s capital has been turned into an occupied military zone like Baghdad. Armed troops authorized to use lethal force are manning checkpoints to enter and leave downtown Washington,...
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Thousands upon thousands of troops are preparing to pour into an increasingly fortified Washington ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, as the district begins to remind some officials of beleaguered capitals such as Baghdad or Kabul,...
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The United States assassinated Revolutionary Guards Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020, with Iran avenging the anti-terror commander’s killing by raining over a dozen ballistic missiles on two US...
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