The Oregon National Guard is sending off 230 guardsmen to Iraq and Syria amid soaring tensions in the Middle East as the US is pledging to defend Israel from an expected Iranian reprisal attack. The US has about 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 troops occupying eastern...
At least five US personnel were injured in a rocket attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq, Reuters reported on Monday, citing US and Iraqi sources. The US officials said one of the Americans who was wounded had serious injuries and that the number of...
Iraq has strongly condemned a US airstrike that targeted the country on Tuesday and killed several members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a coalition of mostly Shia militias that was formed in 2014 to fight ISIS and are part of Iraq's security forces. The...
A US official told Reuters that the US carried out a strike in Iraq on Tuesday just hours after Israel bombed Beirut. The official didn't share details about the attack, but earlier, a drone strike was reported in the Iraqi province of Babylon that hit a base housing...
On Thursday, Multiple rockets were fired at a US base in Iraq, an attack that came after US and Iraqi officials held talks on the future of the US military presence in the country. According to Reuters, the attack targeted the Ain al-Asad airbase, and no casualties or...
The Iraqi government wants the US to begin drawing down the number of troops it has in Iraq starting this September, Reuters reported on Monday, citing four Iraqi sources. The sources said Baghdad wants the US-led anti-ISIS coalition to formally end its work by...
According to US Central Command, the US and its partner forces were involved in 196 missions against ISIS in Iraq and Syria that killed 44 ISIS operatives during the first half of 2024. In Iraq, CENTCOM said it was involved in 137 operations with government forces...
On Tuesday, the Iraqi Shia militia Kataib Hezbollah renewed calls for the US to leave Iraq as it appears there has been no progress on a withdrawal in negotiations between Baghdad and Washington. Abu Ali al-Askari, a spokesman for Kataib Hezbollah, said the group "did...
On Tuesday, the Pentagon said the Iraqi government must "ensure the safety" of US troops and appeared to threaten airstrikes if there are more attacks on US bases in the region. The warning came after US bases in Iraq and Syria came under drone and rocket attacks for...
US troops in Iraq and Syria came under two separate rocket and drone attacks in less than 24 hours, Reuters reported Monday, citing US and Iraqi officials. The officials said the attacks were the first since a nearly three-month pause started in February. The Iraqi...
