The PKK’s presence in these areas effectively transfers its decades-long conflict with Turkey to northern Iraq. The PKK continues to endanger civilian populations by operating from or near civilian …
Amid presidential transition, Iraq and Syria remain unstable and complicated
CBS News’ Holly Williams reports from Iraq, where U.S. forces are continuing the fight to keep ISIS fighters at bay.
National Guard inauguration deployment: twice as large as troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq combined
According to the chief of the National Guard bureau, the number of troops could increase to six times the size of the respective US contingents in Afghanistan and Iraq.
First doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to hit Iraq by February
Iraq has pushed hard to be among the world’s first countries to receive and distribute the vaccine after committing $170 million to COVAX, a global body to promote the vaccine.
The Capitol Riot Wasn’t a Vision of Iraq, or Syria. It Was Trump’s America
When President Donald Trump’s radical supporters stormed the Capitol building last week, fighting with police and rampaging through the halls of Congress, hunting for lawmakers, many American news …
Iran has restored some of its natural gas export to Iraq: energy ministry spox
Iran has raised its export of natural gas to Iraq to 7 million cubic meters (mcm) a day, Iraqi electricity ministry spokesperson Ahmed Musa told Rudaw English on Monday – a partial restoration of the …
US Treasury Secretary sanctions Iraq military leader for human rights abuses
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Friday sanctioned Iraqi military leader Falih al-Fayyadh for alleged human rights abuses that occurred during civilian …
New details emerge of Iran’s attack on US in Iraq last year
There were 110 survivors of the blasts that were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. Twenty-nine were “injured seriously enough to receive Purple Hearts.” …
13 bodies of POWs from Iraq invasion of Kuwait identified
Kuwait’s head of the Committee for Prisoners of War (POW) and Missing Persons, Rabih Al Adsani, announced they have determined the identity of 13 POWs that went missing during the 1990 Iraq invasion …
Yarmouth company plays important role in Iraq’s COVID-19 response
No one at Tri-Star Industries in Yarmouth, N.S. — or anywhere else in the world, for that matter — knew anything about COVID-19 when the company received an order in 2018 to build four mobile …