The US Embassy in Iraq came under attack Thursday night, according to preliminary reports shared at about 02:00 Israel time in The Jerusalem Post‘s sister publication Maariv. The event came within a half hour of reports that the United States and Britain had begun striking Houthi targets in Yemen, and if it was indeed … Read more
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Mark Kimmitt is a retired U.S. Army brigadier general. He served as assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs and deputy assistant secretary of defense for Middle East affairs under President George W. Bush. On December 23, the Chem Puto tanker was attacked by … Read more
A US air strike on a rocket launcher late on Monday foiled an attack on Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts US and other international forces in western Iraq, two Iraqi army sources said. Iraqi military sources said a rocket launcher fixed on the back of a small truck had been parked in a … Read more
The Aleppo International Airport in Syria was struck on Saturday afternoon in an alleged Israeli airstrike, according to Syrian media. “At approximately 5:20 pm today, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, west of Latakia, targeting several points south of the city of Aleppo. “The aggression … Read more
Airstrikes killed at least six Iran-backed terrorists at the Syria-Iraq border, two members of Iraqi militia groups told The Associated Press on Saturday. Hours before the Associated Press report, the Hezbollah terrorist organization announced that four operatives within their ranks were killed by Israeli attacks around the same time, according to Walla, which states … Read more
Turkey will reinforce its newly established permanent bases in northern Iraq in the coming months, after 12 Turkish soldiers were killed in the region, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. The twelve were killed last week in northern Iraq in clashes with the militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) based there. … Read more
The US military’s airstrikes on Monday in Iraq aimed to deter Iran and Iran-backed terror groups from conducting or supporting attacks on United States personnel and facilities, President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. The US military carried out retaliatory air strikes on Monday in Iraq after a drone attack earlier in the day by … Read more
Baghdad: An Iraqi Shiite militia has claimed responsibility for a rocket barrage on a US military base in Syria’s northeastern province of al-Hasakah. The militia, named Islamic Resistance in Iraq, claimed in an online statement on Tuesday that its fighters fired rockets on the al-Shaddadi military base and hit their targets, without giving further details, … Read more
A drone attack by an Iran-affiliated terrorist group on a military base in Iraq early Monday morning left three U.S. service members wounded, the Pentagon said, and prompted President Biden to order retaliatory strikes. The attack on the Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq was conducted by Kataib Hezbollah militants, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin … Read more
The US carried out airstrikes in Syria targeting Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah overnight between December 25 and 26. The airstrikes are important. Iranian-backed groups have carried out at least 103 attacks against US forces in Iraq and Syria in the wake of the Hamas attack on October 7. These Iranian-backed groups have also targeted US … Read more
