Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Monday denied that Tehran was behind a drone attack that targeted the office of Masrour Barzani, the prime minister of Iraq's Kurdistan region. Earlier in the day, the Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Service said that drones...
A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi told Rudaw on Thursday that there's no evidence a drone attack against Saudi oil infrastructure was launched from Iraqi territory, a claim that was used to justify major US-Saudi strikes on Iraq. Sabah al-Numan said...
The US and Saudi Arabia launched major airstrikes in Iraq overnight, targeting the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a coalition of mostly Shia militias formed in 2014 to fight ISIS. The US-Saudi strikes targeted PMF facilities in Baghdad and five Iraqi provinces,...
Israel established a secret military base in the desert of western Iraq to support the bombing campaign against Iran and bombed Iraqi soldiers to prevent them from finding it, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Sources told the Journal that the military...
The US is taking steps to ramp up the pressure on Iraq to reduce its ties with Iran and rein in Iran-aligned militias in the country after the escalations in the country amid the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. Iraqi...
Seven members of Iraq's armed forces were killed on Wednesday in what was likely a US airstrike on a base the Iraqi military shares with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a coalition of mostly Iran-aligned Shia militias that the US has targeted since the start of...
Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said on Tuesday that US airstrikes in Anbar, western Iraq, killed 15 of its fighters, including a senior commander. "In a blatant and cowardly attack, the commander of the Anbar Operations in the Popular Mobilization Forces,...
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...
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....
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,...
