News Iraq Al Anbar: Airstrike hits Iran-aligned PMF base in al-Qaim, three people injured
An airstrike on a military base used by Iran-aligned PMF in Iraq's Anbar province has injured three. The incident highlights escalating tensions in the region.
News Iraq Al Anbar: Iraq launches third phase of anti-ISIS military operation
It aimed to secure the western province of Anbar and the central region of Salahuddin ... when they captured the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The group's leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi would deliver a ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Massachusetts Solider Dies in Iraq; Dept. of Defense Investigating
The Department of Defense announced Tuesday morning it is investigating the death of a 21-year-old soldier from Massachusetts who died Monday in Iraq ... died in Al Anbar Province from a non ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Iraq: Armed Factions Accuse Anbar's Commander of 'High Treason'
Iraqi Commander of operations in al-Anbar province Mahmoud al-Falahi was recorded in recently-leaked audio talking to who is said to be a CIA agent. In the audio, he disclosed information on military ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Can Iraq get its water wheels on UNESCO World Heritage List?
their birth place is Iraq, claims Qahtan Mohammad Saleh al-Hiti, who teaches at Al-Ma’arif College in Ramadi, Anbar province. Hiti, who has carried out extensive research on the history of Hit and its ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Iraq: Armed Factions Accuse Anbar Commander of 'High Treason'
Iraqi Commander of operations in al-Anbar province Mahmoud al-Falahi was recorded in recently-leaked audio talking to who he said was a CIA agent. In the audio, he disclosed information on military ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Iraqi army launches offensive against ISIS near border with Syria
The statement said that the operation is taking place in the areas between the governorates of Saladin, Nineveh and al-Anbar. They added that the operation is led by several Iraqi paramilitary ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Iraq launches new operation to secure desert near Syria border and purge Islamic State cells
Nineveh and Anbar, a statement by the military said. Iraqi armed forces, paramilitary units of the Shiite-dominated Hashed al-Shaabi, tribal groups and U.S.-led coalition warplanes were all taking ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Iraqi Forces Foil Terrorist Attack on Eid Ceremony in Diyala
Highlighting the efforts to ensure security in the Eid ceremonies, the commander said the hostile plots were thwarted in an “ambush operation”, Iraqi media said. In another operation in Al Anbar ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: SAS on 'kill or capture' mission in hunt for Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi
Some 30 SAS and Special Boat Service are said to be searching for Baghdadi, helped by Iraq's 'Golden Division' special forces. He is thought to be hiding in the desert of Al Anbar Province, west of ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Islamic State in Iraq is not over yet
Several terrorist attacks occurred across Iraq during Eid al-Fitr celebrations, raising concerns of a resurgence of the Islamic State (IS). IS set a trap for soldiers in the Iraqi army in Tarmiya in ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: ISIS leader killed in western Iraq by US-led coalition
ISIS is active in rural areas across Iraq especially in isolated lands that give them the freedom to move and plan attacks. They are known to be in areas such as the deserts of Anbar and Nineveh ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Syrian, Iraqi Forces Conduct Joint Raid against Daesh Remnants
The operation successfully cleared 230 kilometers of the two countries’ border region, according to the head of the al-Anbar command of Iraq’s PMU forces Qassim Mosleh. The PMU official said the ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Two police officers killed by Daesh in Iraq's Kirkuk
al-Obeidi said. Although officials in Baghdad say the Daesh presence in Iraq has been largely eradicated, the terrorist group has continued to stage sporadic attacks in the Nineveh, Kirkuk, Diyala, ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Iraq revisiting security plan for Syrian border at Baghouz
Gen. Mahmoud al-Falahi, the Iraq army's operations commander in Anbar province at the Syrian border, said in a press statement, “The Iraqi security forces are watching the terrorist activities inside ...
News Iraq Al Anbar: Blackwater training Daesh terrorists in Iraq, eyeing Syria
The Arabic-language newspaper al-Akhbar reported that Blackwater ... d’affaires of the U.S. mission in Iraq, Joey Hood, as saying that Blackwater had transferred U.S. military equipment from Jordan to ...
