Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said Monday that six of its fighters were killed by a "Zionist bombing" near the border with Syria as fighting in Iraq amid the US-Israeli war against Iran continues to rage. The PMF, a coalition of mainly Shia militias that...
US Tells Its Citizens To Leave Iraq as Drone and Missile Attacks on US Assets Continue Across the Country
The US Embassy in Baghdad on Saturday told all US citizens to leave Iraq due to drone and missile attacks launched by Iran and its Iraqi allies, which continue to target US assets across the country, as the US-Israeli war against Iran expands across the region....
CENTCOM Says All 6 Crew Members Killed When It Lost a KC-135 Tanker Aircraft Over Iraq
UPDATE 3/13/2026 at 12:10 pm EDT: CENTCOM said on Friday morning that all six crew member on board the KC-135 were confirmed dead. US Central Command said on Thursday that it lost a KC-135 refueling tanker aircraft over Iraq and that a rescue effort is underway,...
UK Says US Troops Injured by Drone Attack on Base in Iraq as Pentagon Stays Quiet on US Casualties
British officials said on Thursday that US troops were injured in a drone attack on a base in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, on Wednesday night, as the Pentagon has not been sharing information about all of the US casualties in the US-Israeli war against Iran. According to...
Thirty PMF Fighters Killed by US Airstrikes in Iraq
Nearly 30 members of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) were killed by what were likely US airstrikes in Iraq on Thursday, Rudaw has reported, as Iraq has become a major battlefield in the US-Israeli war against Iran. Unnamed Iraqi security officials told AFP...
US Demands Iraq End Maliki Nomination by Friday
Iraq’s Coordination Framework is still putting forward Nouri al-Maliki as its candidate for prime minister, despite President Trump loudly and repeatedly demand he be withdrawn. The US is now reportedly setting a deadline of Friday, February 27, to end the candidacy...
Syria Confirms ‘Mass Escape’ Since They Took Over ISIS Camps from Kurds
Though they didn’t provide exact numbers for how many are still at large, the Syrian Interior Ministry has confirmed that the al-Hawl camp that housed ISIS detainees in the Hasakeh Governorate did experience mass escapes in the weeks since the central government...
Maliki Rejects US Demands He Step Aside, Path to Iraq Premiership Unclear
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s candidacy to return to the position was meant to have been vetoed last month by President Trump, who denounced Maliki as “insane” and threatened to withhold all US support if he returned to office. There was talk of a...
Iraq May Drop Maliki as PM Candidate After US Threats
Once and possibly future Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s candidacy is increasingly in doubt this weekend, with reports that President Trump’s demand he not be allowed to return to office increasing the possibility that the Coordination Framework bloc may...
US Says 15,000 to 20,000 Escapees Remain at Large From Syrian ISIS Camp Exodus
This time last month, the Syrian military was sweeping through Kurdish territory in the country’s northeast Hasakeh Governorate, and having seized control of the al-Hawl prison camp, there were reports of thousands of ISIS-linked detainees being freed by the Islamist...


