U.S. Strikes Iraqi Base Used by Iran-Backed Militia Amid Rising Tensions
U.S. forces struck a base near Baghdad used by Iran-backed Shiite militias that were preparing to launch drones against American troops.
U.S. forces struck a base near Baghdad used by Iran-backed Shiite militias that were preparing to launch drones against American troops.
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad claims his regime has meetings “from time to time” with officials from the Biden administration.
Messages surfacing on the social media application Telegram on Monday both claimed and denied that the Iranian terror proxy Kata’ib Hezbollah would resume attacks on American troops in its home country of Iraq, leaving unclear the intentions of the group.
Iran-backed Shiite militias in Iraq claimed responsibility for five drone and missile attacks against targets in Israel.
Reports in Iranian media claimed a “suicide drone” hit an American base in eastern Syria. The Pentagon has not confirmed them.
The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, told Iran’s terrorist proxies in Iraq to pause attacks on American troops, Reuters revealed in a report citing anonymous sources on Sunday.
The Iraqi government on Thursday condemned U.S. strikes on Iran-backed Shiite militia groups, including Wednesday’s strike that reportedly killed the leader of one of the most powerful militias, Kataib Hezbollah.
A mob of angry men convened in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday night at the site of a U.S. drone strike that killed several senior members of the Kata’ib Hezbollah terrorist organization, reportedly shouting “America is the Great Satan” and other jihadist slogans.
Kata’ib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terrorist organization that forms part of the Iraqi armed forces, issued a bizarre statement on Tuesday promising it would stop attacking American troops to prevent “embarrassment” for Baghdad.
Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH, or the Hezbollah Brigades), an Iranian proxy terrorist organization in Iraq, promised “painful” terrorist onslaughts against American forces in the country on Wednesday in an attempt to support the Gaza-based jihadist terror group Hamas.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Wednesday announced American forces conducted airstrikes against Kataib Hezbollah (KH), one of the largest and most aggressive Iran-backed Shiite militia groups in Iraq.
Multiple Iranian state-affiliated news outlets reported the deaths on Wednesday of between 20 and 73 people at a parade honoring late terrorist Qasem Soleimani near his tomb in southern Kerman, the result of what investigations are initially describing as “twin” explosions detonated by remote.
Iraqi PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani says U.S. and allied troops will be asked to leave the country after attacks by Iran’s Shiite militias.
The U.S. conducted airstrikes against facilities used by an Iran-backed militia in Iraq after a ballistic missile attack on U.S. forces.
Iran-controlled Shiite militias in Iraq on Thursday claimed responsibility for rocket and drone attacks on two bases housing U.S. troops in Syria and Iraq.
An Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militia has threatened to attack American bases in Iraq if the U.S. aids Israel against the terrorists of Hamas.
Multiple rockets targeted a U.S. base near an oil field in Syria on Monday evening, a day after U.S. airstrikes hit facilities used by Iran-backed Shiite militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region.
The government of Iraq condemned President Joe Biden on Monday for bombing sites within the country, and within Syria, to allegedly combat the threat of Iran-backed militias in the area.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday evening that it had seized 33 websites employed by Iran’s state-run Islamic Radio and Television Union (IRTVU), plus three websites operated by Iran-supported Iraqi terrorist organization Kataib Hezbollah (KH), for targeting the United States with “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.”
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper mocked President Joe Biden on Friday, quoting his declaration, “America is back,” in a headline about his decision to bomb Syria on Thursday evening.
President Joe Biden ordered his first military airstrikes on Thursday, targeting “multiple facilities” used by by Iranian-backed militia groups in eastern Syria, according to the Pentagon.
AFP on Sunday found Iraq divided over the U.S. presidential election. Pro-Iran factions, including terrorist groups like the one that killed an American civilian contractor near Kirkuk in December 2019, were pleased to hear that American media outlets had proclaimed President Donald Trump lost the election to challenger Joe Biden.
Shiite Muslim militia groups in Iraq offered on Sunday to halt their attacks on U.S. and coalition troops if they agree to withdraw from Iraqi soil. The offer was made hours after a coalition convoy suffered damage from a roadside bomb south of Baghdad.
Iraqi counter-terrorism units raided the Baghdad headquarters of Kataib Hezbollah (KH) late Thursday night, capturing as many as 23 of the Iran-backed terrorist militia’s fighters, according to Iraqi officials.
Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite militia group that killed an American civilian contractor in December while launching terrorist rocket attacks against Iraqi military bases, issued a statement on Wednesday accusing the U.S. military of using the coronavirus pandemic as cover to attack its own bases.
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.