How an Iranian ally in Iraq was made to stand down

By Timour Azhari BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A powerful Iraqi faction that led dozens of attacks against U.S. forces since October was pushed to announce a suspension of attacks through pressure from Tehran and ruling Iraqi parties who felt the faction had crossed a red line,

Pictures of photographer in tears after football team lost falsely linked to divisive India temple

Old pictures showing a photographer crying after Iraq lost a football match have resurfaced online in posts that falsely link the images to the opening of a divisive Hindu temple in India in 2024. The pictures were taken in 2019 — five years before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inauguration of the Ram temple in India’s northern Ayodhya city that was built on ground where a centuries-old mosque was torn down by religious zealots.