Baghdad repudiated recent Iraqi media reports claiming U.S. warplanes launched lethal airstrikes in Anbar province against an Iraqi-sanctioned umbrella organization for mainly Shiite militias backed by Iran, Bas News reported Monday.
A long-awaited study of the 2003 war in Iraq released this week concluded that Iran surfaced as “the only victor” of the conflict while Iraq ended up “at best emasculated” and at worst a proxy of the Islamic Republic.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Council (NSC), led by John Bolton, urged the Pentagon to provide the White House with military options to strike Iran after attacks in September 2018 near U.S. assets in Iraq believed to be carried out by Tehran-allied Shiite militias, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday.
Baghdad-sanctioned Shiite militiamen allied with Iran, including fighters who want to push U.S. troops out, have gained control of many of the Sunni territories in Iraq they helped liberate from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq, angered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement during his recent visit to the country that United States troops will remain there, renewed threats against American service members in recent days.
A commander with the Iranian-allied Shiite militias fighting in Iraq argued this week that U.S. military troops who continue to back the Middle Eastern country’s forces against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) pose a threat to the nation’s unity.
A component of the Baghdad-sanctioned coalition of mainly Iran-allied Shiite militias in Iraq has threatened to attack U.S. troops if they refuse to leave the country, declaring that the United States “has become our direct enemy.”
State-sponsor of terrorism Iran is reportedly establishing a permanent military presence inside Syria that will allow the Shiite Islamic Republic to operate close to Israel, according to a Western official.
The U.S.-led coalition does not “seek” to offensively fight against the Iran-backed Shiite militias in Syria who recently fired on American troops for the first time, but it is ready to “defend itself” if they attack, a Pentagon spokesman tells Breitbart News.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists are strapping bombs on stray dogs, including a puppy, to use them against U.S.-backed coalition forces in Iraq, a video posted by Iraqi government-sanctioned paramilitary fighters purportedly shows.
Baghdad government-sanctioned paramilitary forces predominantly made up of Shiite militiamen backed by Iran have launched a new effort to recapture more Iraqi villages from the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group.
Fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization of mostly Iran-allied Shiite militias, have established a presence in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region with the ultimate purpose of erecting a base there, Rudaw has learned from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq have provided weapons and training to hundreds of Shiite militias known for being affiliated with Iran, including some the U.S. has designated terrorists, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
An all-female Yazidi militia has reportedly declared that it wants to be on the front lines of a new operation against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in northern Iraq in an effort to avenge their fellow Yazidi women who have suffered atrocities at the hands of the jihadist group.
The Shiite-led government in Baghdad has vowed to dismantle predominantly Sunni Turkey following Ankara’s military build along the Iraqi border.
Disturbing videos have emerged on social media that appear to show U.S.-backed Iraqi forces torturing children as they advance towards Mosul, the last major stronghold of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq.
The U.S. military has denied reports suggesting that fighters from Iran’s terrorist proxy Kataib Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades, are fighting alongside U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and their allies in the offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Republican Nominee Donald Trump, when asked about the ongoing U.S.-backed offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) during the final presidential debate, said terror-sponsor of terrorism Iran will ultimately “benefit” from the operation. “Iran
American officials fear that Islamic State jihadists will use crudely-designed chemical weapons, primarily packed with a sulfur mustard gas agent, to defend their de-facto capital of Mosul in Iraq from advancing Iraqi forces, Kurdish troops and Iran-allied Shiite militias, backed by U.S. troops.
Iran continues to expand its influence in Iraq through at least 80,000 Shiite militia fighters, prompting concerns that the Shiite country may replace the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) should it be defeated, reports Fox News.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry described the Iranian presence in Iraq as “helpful” in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh), although he admitted there were some “challenges” to the relationship.
U.S.-backed Iraqi troops continue to fight Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in Fallujah, days after the Baghdad-based government declared the city to be “liberated” from terrorists.
Brutal Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists are shooting dead civilians who try to flee the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), an aid agency. According to BBC, families interviewed by NRC revealed that civilians are
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The participation of Iran-allied Shiite militias in the U.S-backed operation to retake Fallujah from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is testament to the Islamic Republic’s growing and troubling influence in Iraq, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) told Breitbart News.
Shiite Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani flew to Moscow, despite an international travel ban, to discuss Syria and the delivery of Russian missiles, Reuters has learned from various sources.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) repelled an offensive launched by Shiite militiamen, many of them backed by Iran, to recapture the village of Bashir south of northern Iraq’s Kirkuk, Kurdish media outlet Rudaw reports.
An Iraqi Shiite militia group calling itself the “Iraq Special Operation Force” claims it settled the fate of a captured Islamic State jihadi by giving Instagram users an hour to vote for either freedom or death, and imposing a death sentence when the online vote called for it.
An Iran-backed Shiite militia, described as one of the deadliest, has threatened to “deal” with American Marines deployed to a new U.S. base in northern Iraq “as forces of occupation.”
The Iraqi foreign ministry summoned the new Saudi ambassador to Baghdad, Thamer al-Sabhan, after he suggested that a coalition of Iran-backed Shi’ite militias was exacerbating sectarian tensions and should leave the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) to the Iraqi security forces.
An Iran-backed Shi’ite militia was behind the kidnapping of three Americans who disappeared in Baghdad last week, Reuters reports, citing two Iraqi intelligence and two U.S. government sources.