Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visits Iraq for the first time since the murder. of Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Qassem Soleimani in January. Zarif and his Iraqi counterpart, Fuad Hussein, emphasized the need for a stable Iraq for the “good of the region” as the top …
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A leading Iraqi expert in ISIL (ISIS) and other armed groups were shot dead in Baghdad on Monday after receiving threats from Iranian-backed militias, security and interior officials said. Hisham al-Hashemi, 47, was shot near his home in the Zeyouneh area of Baghdad and was pronounced dead in a hospital, …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The US drone attack in January in Iraq that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and nine other people represented a violation of international law, a UN human rights investigator said Monday. FILE PHOTO: A supporter of Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah takes photos of the late …
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Two rockets attacked US diplomatic and military facilities overnight, Iraqi security forces said Sunday, when a powerful Iranian-backed armed group denied responsibility for a series of such attacks. Since October, US diplomats and troops across Iraq have been the target of approximately three dozen rocket attacks that Washington attributed to …
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces raided a fortress of a powerful Iranian-backed militia in southern Baghdad on Thursday and detained more than a dozen members of the group, government officials and paramilitary sources said. The raid was the most blatant action by Iraqi forces against a major Iranian-backed militia …
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