The assassination by the United States of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, near Baghdad's airport will ignite widespread retaliatory attacks against U.S. targets from Shiites, who form the majority in Iraq.
What everyone can agree on with respect to the current crisis in Iraq is that Operation Iraqi Freedom, the slogan that the Pentagon used in the run-up to its 2003 invasion of Iraq, has been one great big miserable failure.
The Kataib Hezbollah on Saturday warned the Iraqi security forces to keep a distance of one Kilometer from the US bases from Sunday evening, after the Pentagon's recent assault hit five targets of the popular forces in Iraq and Syria which resulted i
Paul, in the interview, also counters the argument that the US had to kill Suleimani "to save American lives," stating that he feels "less safe" after the assassination.
While neocons and the media cheer the attack, no one seems interested in asking "what's the end game"? Especially as Iraq now urgently wants US troops out of the country.
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Iraqi Parliament has voted for ending the presence of foreign troops in Iraq, limiting arms to the Iraqi states and to lodge an
• By CHRIS PLEASANCE, ROSS IBBETSON and KEITH GRIFFI
Grisly pictures emerge of the moment Reaper missiles killed Qassem Soleimani - and the distinctive ring that was all they could find to identify him - as Lindsey Graham celebrates 'chopping off the Ayatollah's right fist'
Update: Jan. 3: NBC News has confirmed the U.S. military will send 3,500 troops to the Middle East following the attack of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and the killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
Three U.S. defense officials told Fox News on Tuesday that the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division's alert brigade has been given orders to deploy to Kuwait amid the social unrest in Baghdad.
On Sunday, US F-15s attacked facilities in Iraq and Syria, claiming it was retaliation for an alleged Iraqi Shi'a militia attack on an Iraqi military base. The US, naturally, blames Iran.
Thousands of Iraqi protestors attacked various parts of the US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday after US airstrikes killed dozens of Iran-backed Iraqi militia over the weekend.
Iraq -- What's most likely is more of the same, how the US operates under both right wings of its war party -- at war on humanity at home and abroad, its killing machine making everyone unsafe everywhere.
Iraq -- In response to last Sunday's terror-bombing strikes by Pentagon warplanes that killed over two dozen Kata'ib Hezbollah members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, wounding many others, Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi called what happened "
Furious lynch mob kill 'teenage gunman' before stringing him up from traffic lights in central Baghdad after accusing him of shooting anti-government protesters
Protesters in Iraq have won their first big success by forcing the resignation of the Iraqi prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, after the killing of 45 unarmed protesters by the Iraqi security forces in a single day.