Tags - Iraq
The Iranian foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned the Swiss charge de 'affairs to Tehran whose country represents the US interests in the Islamic Republic, and voiced strong protest at Washington’s recent allegations against Iran over the recent developments in Iraq.
News ID: 448278 Publish Date : 2020/01/02
Hundreds of Iraqi people who had gathered in front of the US embassy in Baghdad to protest at Washington's military attacks against Hashd al-Shaabi (popular forces) positions continued their sit-in for the second day on Wednesday.
News ID: 448276 Publish Date : 2020/01/02
Footage has emerged showing US military aircraft dropping off as many as 100 marines to the American Embassy compound in Baghdad amid angry protests outside the diplomatic mission against the recent bloody air raids that targeted the positions of Iraq’s popular forces.
News ID: 448273 Publish Date : 2020/01/02
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer, in an official letter, accused the United States of torturing Chelsea Manning, the former United States army intelligence analyst and whistleblower, saying that her detention is not lawful and demanding that US authorities immediately release her.
News ID: 448270 Publish Date : 2020/01/02
The United States is confronted with yet another crisis in Iraq following protests outside the US embassy by Iraqi protesters infuriated over Washington’s recent deadly military aggression on the Arab country.
News ID: 448268 Publish Date : 2020/01/02
The United States military is working on a plan to force America out of Afghanistan, following military strikes that helped dislodge American diplomatic personnel in Baghdad, the Pentagon has announced.
News ID: 448264 Publish Date : 2020/01/02
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has strongly condemned the deadly American air raids that targeted the positions of Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi forces, saying Washington is in fact taking revenge on the popular forces because of the key role they played in defeating the Daesh terror group.
News ID: 448262 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
Officials:
Up to 4,000 American paratroopers have been ordered to deploy to the Middle East region following mass protests outside the US embassy by Iraqi protesters infuriated over Washington’s recent deadly military aggression on the Arab country.
News ID: 448260 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
Iraqis burn the US flag in the Southern city of Basra during a demonstration to denounce the previous night's attacks by US planes on several bases belonging to the Hezbollah brigades near Al-Qaim, an Iraqi district bordering Syria. [PHOTOS]
News ID: 448259 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
Iran has called on the United States to abandon its destructive policies in the region as Tehran rejects Washington’s groundless accusation that the Islamic Republic is behind anti-US protests in Iraq.
News ID: 448258 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
Iraqis wave Hashd al-Shaabi banners and national flags in the Southern city of Basra during a demonstration to denounce the previous night's attacks by US planes on several bases belonging to the Hezbollah brigades near Al-Qaim, an Iraqi district bordering Syria. [PHOTOS]
News ID: 448251 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper has announced that the United States is sending additional troops to Baghdad to provide security for the American embassy there following an attack by protesters.
News ID: 448249 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
The United States’ Embassy in Baghdad has been evacuated after thousands of angry Iraqi demonstrators gathered outside the gates of the compound to condemn Washington’s fatal military aggression that targeted Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).
News ID: 448247 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
Kataeb Hezbollah group, affiliated to Hashd al-Shaabi (popular forces), condemned the US for attacking its positions in Iraq and using the country's soil as a ground to take revenge for its failures against Iran.
News ID: 448245 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
Iraqi people in the capital city of Baghdad held protest rallies against Washington's military attack on Hashd al-Shaabi (popular forces), calling for the expulsion of the US ambassador from the Arab country.
News ID: 448243 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
Caretaker government of Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced three days of public mourning for members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) who were killed in US drone strikes on a number of Kata'ib Hezbollah bases in Anbar province.
News ID: 448242 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
The People’s Mobilization Units (PMU) of Iraq, better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha'abi, is a government-sponsored umbrella organization composed of around 40 factions of volunteer counter-terrorism forces, including mostly Shia Muslims besides Sunni Muslims, Christians and Kurds.
News ID: 448236 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
Senior Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr says he is willing to work with the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) -- better known as Hashd al-Sha'abi -- to end the United States military presence in Iraq through political and legal means.
News ID: 448233 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
Condemning the American attack on the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, Ayatollah Nouri-Hamadani emphasized that Iraqis don’t allow foreigners to interfere in their country’s affairs.
News ID: 448231 Publish Date : 2020/01/01
Different Iraqi groups and political figures strongly deplored the US Sunday attack on the country which killed and wounded tens of Hashd al-Shaabi forces.
News ID: 448227 Publish Date : 2019/12/31