An explosion at a site used by Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias in Iraq has focused a spotlight on the role that these groups play in Iraq and their threat to the region. The site of the explosion, around 50 kms. north of Baghdad, overnight Friday, includes a hangar and several concrete walls, and is part … Read more
At least five rockets were launched from Iraq’s town of Zummar towards a US military base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, two Iraqi security sources told Reuters. The attack against US forces is the first since early February when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq stopped their attacks against US troops. The attack comes on the … Read more
One killed and six wounded in an airstrike on a military base used by Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) to the south of Baghdad on Friday, according to Iraqi sources. Significant strikes were carried out overnight between Friday and Saturday against targets of Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, south of Baghdad, as reported by Saudi-owned … Read more
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid to call for a “collective effort” against Israel, according to a report in the pro-Iranian Al-Mayadeen media. “Stopping the genocide carried out by the Israeli occupation against the people of Gaza is an important legal and humanitarian responsibility for all Muslims and free people … Read more
Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi spoke to Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani on Wednesday evening. Raisi said that Israel would pay a “heavy price” for an airstrike in Damascus, for which Tehran blames Jerusalem. He discussed the “martyrdom” of Maj.-Gen. Mohammed Reza Zahedi, an IRGC leader, was killed in the Syrian capital. Sudani … Read more
Iranian pro-regime media admitted the loss of a prominent leader named Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a top commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), on Monday night. Iranian pro-government Tasnim media noted that he was a member of the Quds force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. This is a major loss for Iran … Read more
Doctor Botox Olivier Véran, a former French government spokesperson and ex-minister of health, recently announced his next career venture at the Clinique des Champs-Élysées in Paris. For Véran, who was a neurologist before turning to politics, going back to medicine is not all that surprising. What was shocking — and caused some uproar in the … Read more
The Iranian pro-government Tasnim news media claimed that the “Islamic Resistance of Iraq announced that in support of the people of Gaza…it targeted the power plant of the Zionist regime in ‘Tel Aviv’ with a drone early this morning, Thursday.” The Iranian media included an image of an explosive-laden kamikaze drone in the report. … Read more
A United Nations mission set up to help Iraq investigate alleged Islamic State genocide and war crimes is being forced to shut prematurely before it can finish its probes, following a souring of its relationship with the Iraqi government. The removal of the UN mission set up in 2017 comes nearly a decade after … Read more
This year marks ten years since Islamic State (IS) fighters killed, raped and enslaved thousands of the Yazidi population, an ancient religious minority that had lived in parts of Iraq and Syria for nearly 6,000 years. After declaring the caliphate in August 2014, the Islamic State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a genocidal campaign … Read more
