Shiite Muslims mark Ashura in Iraq and Lebanon amidst Gaza war
On July 17th, Shiite Muslims commemorated Ashura, marking the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, who died in the...
Iraq
Turkish military operations into northern Iraq provoke Baghdad
On July 10th, Iraqi authorities condemned continued Turkish military operations and “incursions” into the northern Kurdistan region according to the...
Iraq: Five bombs planted by ISIS uncovered in Mosul mosque
During renovations in Mosul’s Al-Nuri Mosque, United Nations personnel uncovered five bombs in a wall of the iconic building on...
Kurdish security detain smugglers behind fatal Italian shipwreck
4 suspected human traffickers were arrested by Asayish (Kurdish Security) in the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq on June 25th,...
Iraqi pro-Iran faction warns the US to withdraw
Iraq’s Iran-backed group, Kataeb Hezbollah, recently repeated calls for US troops to withdraw from Iraq, according to Arab News and...
Iraq repatriates citizens from ISIS-linked Syrian camp
Iraq has recently repatriated hundreds of its citizens held in the ISIS-affiliated Al Hol camp located in Syria, as reported...
Abu Ghraib torture: US military contractor faces historic trial
As a US jury considers a historic civil case implicating a military contractor for the infamous Abu Ghraib prison abuse,...
US denies it carried out Syria airstrikes
The United States on March 26 denied any involvement in the dawn strikes on eastern Syria, Reuters reported. Syrian and...
Five British SAS soldiers accused of war crimes in Syria
Five British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers are under investigation for war crimes in Syria, according to The Daily Mail...
UAE restrict US strikes on Iranian proxies
The UAE is among Arab states restricting US strikes on Iranian proxies launched from their soil, according to Politico on...
Israel claims to have hit over 3,000 Hezbollah targets
Israel made unsubstantiated claims on February 3rd to have hit more than 3,400 Hezbollah targets Lebanon and over 50 in...
Alistair Crooke: Biden walks tightrope with his attacks on Iran allies
“The Iranians have a strategy, and we don’t”, a former senior U.S. Defence Department official told Al-Monitor: “We’re getting bogged down in...
39 dead in US strikes on Iraq and Syria
39 dead in US airstrikes against Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria on February 3rd, according to Reuters. The strikes...
IS cells in northeast Syria centralised weapon shipments
Despite losing control of various parts of Syria’s northeast, notorious terror group ISIS continues to gain access to a hefty...
Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah stops operations against US forces
After several attacks against the US' bases in Iraq in support of the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza, Iraqi armed group...
