July 2019

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi military said on Saturday that its troops, in partnership with security agencies and paramilitary forces, had launched the second phase of an operation to remove ISIS remnants from northern Baghdad and areas neighboring…

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An unmanned plane dropped explosives on Friday at a base belonging to Iranian-linked Shia paramilitary groups in northern Iraq, killing at least one, military and paramilitary sources said.The Iraqi military said in a…

Following a July 1 decree by Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi ordering factions of Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) to be absorbed into state security forces, pro-Iranian PMU factions reacted with anger. Abdul Mahdi's decree says:…