Iraqi officials announced that an airstrike had killed a commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as he entered Syria from Iraq on November 29 with a consignment of weapons. The news came …
The son of an Iraq War veteran designed an app to stop his dad’s PTSD nightmares
When US Army veteran Patrick Skluzacek returned from Iraq in the mid-2000s, life was good — every day was another welcome home party, he had a paid month off work, and he was finally back with family …
IMF Staff Completes 2020 Article IV Mission with Iraq
Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not …
IMF Staff Completes 2020 Article IV Mission with Iraq
Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not …
Iran executes journalist Ruhollah Zam, who encouraged 2017 protests, after abduction in Iraq
Ruhollah Zam, a journalist and Iranian opposition figure, had been living in Paris before he was abducted in Iraq and taken to Iran over a year ago.
Protests flare in Iraq’s Kurdish north, adding new front in national crisis
The unrest shattered the relative calm in the Kurdish-led region and highlighted the deepening discontent across Iraq.
Iraq ‘shrine factions’ look to peel away from Hashed
The growing fissure pits the vast Iran-aligned wing of the Hashed al-Shaabi network against four factions linked to the shrines of Iraq’s twin holy cities, Karbala and Najaf. Those factions, dubbed …
Iran’s options to hit Israel for nuke chief’s killing reach far beyond Hezbollah
While Lebanese terror group may be keen to stay out of the fight, precision rocket tech is reaching Gaza and accurate cruise missiles are within the grasp of groups in Iraq …
Do the violent protests in northern Iraq signal a ‘Kurdish Spring’?
The politics are the same, protesters’ demands are too. But this time — due to demographics, falling oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic — it’s different, locals in Iraqi Kurdistan say.
ER doctor and Iraq War veteran who moved from New York to help with surge of COVID-19 cases at Arizona hospital says he was fired after he tweeted about the severity of the …
Dr Cleavon Gilman said he was fired from Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona on November 23 after he tweeted that his hospital’s ICU was full and that they couldn’t transfer any patients.