JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army said Tuesday that rocket and drone attacks on its areas were launched from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. A military statement said warplanes intercepted a drone and two rockets fired from Lebanese territory, which triggered sirens in Metula and Kfar Giladi settlements in northern Israel. The army said a combat dron...
BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi military, with the support of US-led coalition forces, has killed 16 ISIS fighters, including high-ranking figures, during the military operation that began last week in the western Anbar desert, officials say. According to a statement issued by the Joint Operations Command on X, Iraqi National Intelligence Organizatio...
Newly released photos have exposed the US Marines 2005 massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians, including children. For nearly two decades, the US military kept these images hidden. The New Yorker Magazine’s persistent efforts led to their release through a legal battle. The trial of eight Marines for the massacre resulted in minimal consequences...
BERLIN (AA) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised new measures to prevent irregular migration but ruled out suspending asylum rights, amid calls from opposition parties for a drastic overhaul of migration policy. “The individual right to asylum will remain in place. This is in our constitution, and nobody can get my support to cha...
Annapolis, United States – AFP The United States will not tolerate attacks on American troops in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday, after rocket fire in Iraq wounded seven US personnel. The Monday attack was the third in just over three weeks on Ain al-Assad base in western Iraq, which hosts American […]
In most parts of the world, Muslims marked the day of Ashura on Tuesday. Ashura falls on the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram. It commemorates the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of Prophet Muhammad, in Karbala, Iraq, in 680 of the Common Era. Ashura symbolizes his stand against a tyrant, and […]
Thousands of Shia Muslims gathered at Imam Ali Shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Monday to celebrate Eid al-Ghadir. Eid al-Ghadir is an observance among Shia Muslims in Iraq and globally, commemorating an event known as Ghadir Khumm. The Ghadīr Khumm marks a sermon delivered by Prophet Muhammad in 632, near the then-settlement […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Department of State on Monday designated the Iraq-based Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya as “specially designated global terrorists.” The State Department said in a statement that the group’s secretary-general, Haydar Muzhir Ma’lak al-Sa’idi, has also been designated as a terrorist. Har...
United Nations, United States – AFP At the request of Baghdad, the UN Security Council unanimously decided Friday that the United Nations political mission in Iraq would leave the country at the end of 2025 after more than 20 years. Earlier this month, in a letter to the council, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani […]
ISTANBUL (AA) -Leaders from the Arab and Muslim world have extended their condolences to Tehran following the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir Abdullahian and other top officials in a helicopter crash. “Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al-Sudani expressed his deepest condolences to the Iranian government and ...
