Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, secretary-general of Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah militia movement and deputy chairman of the powerful Shia-led Popular Mobilization Forces militias, was killed in Baghdad on January 3 in a US drone strike targeting Iran’s...
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In early January the United States killed General Qassim Soleimani, a top commander of Iran’s al-Quds Force, in an airstrike at Baghdad’s International Airport. The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of...
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The top United Nations envoy to Iraq condemned on Monday the use of hunting rifles firing birdshot against peaceful protesters in Baghdad and urged the government to ensure they are not harmed.Iraq faces an extraordinary domestic crisis as nearly...
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BAGHDAD — At least four rockets hit near the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and a Iraqi base hosting American troops inside the Green Zone early Sunday, but caused no casualties and only minor damage, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
The attack...
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Sebastien Roblin
History, Middle East
One of the most intense air battles since World War II.
Key Point: In Operation Morvarid (“Pearl”) not only did they hope to take the Iraqi radars out of the picture but also Baghdad’s vital oil...
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U.S. and Iraqi officials say at least four rockets hit near the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and a Iraqi base hosting American troops inside the Green Zone
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Multiple explosions went off at a military base used by U.S. troops in Baghdad, Iraq, early on Sunday morning. The blasts were the result of a rocket attack against the base, which sits near the U.S. embassy in Iraq, according to an American...
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Michael Peck
Technology, Middle East
Here's how it'd go down.
Key Point: Israel has a missile system that can counter Iran.
The Middle East is aflame from Baghdad to Gaza. But the most frightening conflict is one that is yet to happen. Though...
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After Iranian top general Qasem Soleimani and senior members of the Iranian-backed militia in Iraq were assassinated at the behest of US President Donald Trump near Baghdad on 3 January, Tehran and Washington have reportedly been one step from...
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In Baghdad, families awoke to the first snow in more than a decade. In Mosul, the riverbanks were dusted white, and snowfall shrouded mounds of rubble that still clog a sector of the old city pulverized during the fight against the Islamic State.
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Iraqis in the capital of Baghdad have woken up to a sight not seen in over a decade: their city covered in snow
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander was killed by a US airstrike on 3 January 2020 near Baghdad International Airport. Washington claimed that Soleimani was planning to organise an attack on Americans in Iraq amid an...
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Andrew G. Jones
Security, Middle East
Those are the facts.
A US strike which killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in January, and the counter-strike by the Iranian military on US targets in Iraq, raised serious questions about the...
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The senators’ message comes amid continuing tensions between Tehran and Washington following the death of Iran’s top military commander Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad and subsequent Iranian attacks on American military bases in...
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BAGHDAD — Former communications minister Mohammed Allawi was named prime minister-designate by rival Iraqi factions Saturday after weeks of political deadlock.
The choice comes as the country weathers troubled times, including ongoing...
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The move comes amid an escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran since the beginning of January in the wake of the killing of top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad and the following...
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Joint operations were suspended after President Trump ordered the killing of a top Iranian military commander in Baghdad.
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Two days after a U.S. drone assassinated Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani outside the Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi parliament approved a nonbinding resolution to expel the American military from its country. It was not Iraq’s first...
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Enea Gjoza
Security, Middle East
In the age of great-power competition, the Middle East is a distraction.
In a missile strike in Baghdad this month, U.S. forces killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the architect of Iran’s regional...
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We discuss the latest on a plane crash in Afghanistan and recent rocket attacks on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
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