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
Iraqi militias launched a drone attack on Eilat, but the drone never made it and was intercepted by Jordan in its airspace. An X (formerly Twitter) account associated with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella term for multiple pro-iran militias, announced that they had launched a drone attack on Eilat in Israel. The … Read more
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. It was February 1991, and the crew of the British frigate HMS Gloucester was scrambling, trying to knock out an Iraqi Silkworm missile heading toward the USS Missouri — a World War II-era battleship recommissioned by former United States President Ronald Reagan. The extreme jolt from the … Read more
South Sudan, Libya and Afghanistan are among the most dangerous countries on earth to visit in 2024, it has been revealed. That’s according to an annual interactive map that shows where travellers are most likely to face security threats based on the risk of political violence, social unrest, violent and petty crimes and, this year, … Read more
