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Iraq August 30, 2024 8:03 pm

15 Islamic State group fighters dead, 6 U.S. soldiers injured in raid on terror group in Iraq

A U.S. military operation Thursday in Iraq killed at least 15 Islamic State militant group fighters, and several U.S. soldiers suffered injuries, three U.S. defense officials said, according to NBC News.

FILE - A picture taken on January 13, 2020, shows a view inside Ain al-Asad military airbase.

Iraq August 6, 2024 2:23 am

Americans injured in attack on US base in Iraq

Several U.S. personnel are believed to be injured following a suspected rocket attack on U.S. and coalition forces at al-Asad airbase in Iraq, a defense official confirmed to NBC News.

FILE – Supporters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr sign a pledge to stand against homosexuality or LGBTQ, outside a mosque in Kufa, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022.

Iraq April 28, 2024 3:09 pm

Passage of harsh anti-LGBTQ+ law in Iraq draws diplomatic backlash

Human rights groups and diplomat have criticized a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament over the weekend that would impose heavy prison sentences on gay and transgender people. Although homosexuality is taboo in the largely conservative Iraqi society and political leaders have periodically launched anti-LGBTQ campaigns, Iraq did not previously have a law that explicitly criminalized it.

People watch as a vehicle that was hit by a drone strike, reportedly killing three people including two leaders of a pro-Iran group, is carried away in Baghdad on February 7, 2024.

Iraq February 7, 2024 5:50 pm

Militia commander killed in US drone strike in Iraq

A Kataib Hezbollah commander was killed in a U.S. drone strike Wednesday in Baghdad in response to an attack on American forces, a U.S. official confirmed to NBC News

Iraq January 23, 2024 7:12 pm

US strikes Iran-backed militias in Iraq after series of attacks on American forces

The strikes came hours after the U.S. said militants fired two one-way attack drones at al-Asad Air Base, injuring U.S. service members and damaging infrastructure.

Iraq December 26, 2023 4:20 am

Biden orders strikes on Iran-backed militia in Iraq after 3 US troops injured in drone attack

President Joe Biden has ordered retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. service members injured in a drone attack in Northern Iraq.

U.S. Embassy building in Baghdad is seen after U.S. urged American citizens to leave Iraq immediately in the aftermath of an airstrike that killed a top Iranian commander in Baghdad, on January 3, 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq.
(Photo by Murtadha Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Iraq December 8, 2023 1:03 pm

A rocket attack targets the US Embassy in Baghdad, causing minor damage but no casualties

An Iraqi security official said 14 Katyusha rockets were fired on Friday, of which some struck near one of the U.S. Embassy’s gates.

KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT – DECEMBER 15: U.S. Army soldiers from the 2-82 Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, walk to where they will board buses to fly home to Fort Hood, Texas after being one of the last American combat units to exit from Iraq on December 15, 2011 at Camp Virginia, near Kuwait City, Kuwait. Today the U.S. military formally ended its mission in Iraq after eight years of war and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

Iraq October 18, 2023 6:13 pm

Troops hurt after three drones attack US bases in Iraq as tensions flare after Gaza hospital blast

Coalition forces were slightly injured in Iraq in a spate of drone attacks over the last 24 hours at U.S. bases in Iraq as regional tensions flare following the deadly bombing of a hospital in Gaza.

Soldiers and emergency responders gather around ambulances carrying wounded people after a fire broke out during a wedding at an event hall, outside the Hamdaniyah general hospital in Al-Hamdaniyah, Iraq on September 27, 2023. At least 100 people were killed and more than 150 injured when a fire broke out during a wedding at an event hall in the northern Iraqi town of Al-Hamdaniyah, according to state media and health officials, on September 27, 2023.

Iraq September 27, 2023 2:00 am

A fire at a wedding hall in northern Iraq kills at least 100 people and injures 150, authorities say

A fire that raced through a hall hosting a Christian wedding in northern Iraq killed at least 100 people and injured 150 others, authorities said Wednesday, warning the death toll could rise higher.

Members of the Palestinian Prisoners Committee hold a rally outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in Gaza City on July 17, 2023, demanding the Iraqi government to include Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails in the exchange for Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov. Elizabeth Tsurkov, a doctoral student at Princeton University and fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, has been missing in Iraq for more than three months.

Biden Administration September 20, 2023 5:42 pm

U.S. senators ask Biden administration to push for release of Princeton grad student held by Iran-backed militia

Two U.S. senators are urging the Biden administration to appeal to the Iraqi government to help secure the release of a Princeton University graduate student believed to have been abducted by an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq six months ago.

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