Sunday, 13 September 2020_Commander of US military forces in the Middle East has again raised concerns about surging attacks against American installations in Iraq, linking it to Iran’s vow to drive out US forces from the region but rejecting it as the reason for a major US troop reduction in the region.
Thursday, 10 September 2020_The United States and Germany have announced they will reduce military presence in Iraq, months after Iraqi lawmakers passed a resolution calling on the government to end the presence of all Washington-led troops in the Arab counry.
Wednesday, 09 September 2020_Two US military and logistics convoys have been targeted by roadside bombs in Iraq, the latest in a series of explosions that hit US occupation forces amid anti-American sentiment in the country.
Wednesday, 12 August 2020_Iraq has canceled an official visit by Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and summoned Ankara’s ambassador to Baghdad following a drone strike that killed two high-ranking Iraqi commanders in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
Tuesday, 21 July 2020_President Hassan Rouhani says the visit to Iran by Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi — the latter’s first foreign trip in the capacity — will serve as a “milestone” in bilateral ties between the two neighbors.
Tuesday, 14 July 2020_The head of the security and defense committee at the Iraqi parliament has condemned Ankara’s ongoing cross-border operation in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region against hideouts of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group, stating that Turkish forces are now deployed more than a dozen kilometers into the area.
Friday, 03 July_Iraq has threatened to cut off its trade ties with Turkey in protest at Ankara’s ongoing cross-border operation in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region against hideouts of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group.
Tehran, 04 June_ Iraq has released more than a dozen members of Popular Mobilization Units, better known as Hashd al-Shaabi, a few days after an unprecedented raid on the headquarters of Kata'ib Hezbollah, which is said to have been dictated by the US.
Monday, 15 June_A report says the United Arab Emirates has allegedly provided financial support to the anti-Turkey PKK militant group in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
Sunday, 14 June_The rockets were launched north of Baghdad and did not cause any damage to the Taji base, the Iraqi security forces said in a statement.
Thursday, 11 June_Members of the 29-country US-led military coalition in Iraq have cut the number of their troops in half, a report by the New York Times says.
Tehran, 07 May_Iran says a significant portion of its exports to the neighboring Iraq is handled via the borders to the Arab country’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.
Tehran 03 May _Iraq’s Badr organization, which is part of the country's Popular Mobilization Forces or Hashd al-Sha’abi, says the US and Saudi Arabia are seeking to reactivate Daesh, adding that recent attacks by the Takfiri terrorist group serve that aim.
Tehran 03 May _A major Iraqi resistance group has warned about a fiendish plot by the United States to transfer members and field commanders of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group from neighboring Syria to the Arab country.
Tehran 03 May _A senior commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units says the recent Daesh attacks on PMU positions are part of a US plot to extend the American troops’ presence in Iraq.
Tehran may 1_Al-Nujaba Islamic Resistance calling the emptying of the US bases in Iraq a show warned on the US new project on bringing back terrorism and the top commanders of the ISIS to Iraq.
Tehran 24 April _Iraq’s Kata'ib Hezbollah resistance group says Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi has agreed to form a committee to probe the US assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.
Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi has been trying to set up a new cabinet amid public calls for social welfare and the withdrawal of US occupation forces from the Arab country.
US officials say hundreds of their troops will remain in Iraq, noting that missile systems are now operating in the bases hosting the occupation forces.