FNA - A telecommunication company in Iraq has provided the American forces with vital information which helped Washington to assassinate former IRGC Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Deputy Commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iraqi media reported. The Special Committee to Investigate ...

ABNA - In a joint press conference with his Iraq counterpart Fuad Hussein in Baghdad, Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined the vitality of holding regional and international talks adding that the region needs peace. "We are really happy that we are standing beside each other and we have defeated the joint enemy i.e. the terrorism," Zarif said....

Sputnik - In January 2020 members of the Iraqi parliament said the country was mulling the purchase of advanced Russian S-400 missile systems amid concerns that Washington might stop supporting Iraq and providing it with modern air defence armaments. The Parliamentary Security and Defence Committee of Iraq submitted a detailed study requesting the ...

MNA A commemoration ceremony of the martyrdom of the former IRGC Quds Force, Lieutenant General Soleimani and Iraqi Commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was held in Karbala on Monday. A commemoration ceremony of the martyrdom of the former IRGC Quds Force, Lieutenant General Soleimani and other Resistance Martyrs was held in Karbala on Monday. The ...

MNA |Mahdi Azizi: The assassination of Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, which was carried out 100 days ago in a terrorist attack in Baghdads international airport, may be considered the biggest miscalculation and security mistake by the United States ever. However, the assassination was said to be a unilateral and personal ...

Press TV - Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by their Arabic name Hashd al-Sha'abi, have blasted the US forces based in their country as "occupiers", pledging to bring the occupationof the Arab country to an end. In a joint statement on Saturday, Hashd al-Shaabi groups said from now on the US troops in the Arab country will be ...

IRNA A visiting Iraqi judicial delegation agreed on Sunday with an offer by Iran on forming a joint committee for inquiry into the case of the US terrorist attack against motorcade of Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran to assassinate Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani on January 3. Senior Iraqi judicial officials met with Mahmoud Abbasi,...

Press TV - Tens of thousands of people in Iraq and Pakistan have held ceremonies to mark the 40th day after the martyrdom of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi trenchmate, Hashd al-Shaabi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Iraqi people from various governorates flocked to the holy city of Najaf on Friday to pay tribute to al-Muhandis ...

AP The United States has signaled to Iraq its willingness to extend sanctions waivers enabling the country to continue importing vital Iranian gas and electricity imports, three Iraqi officials said this week, a move that would be a key test of Baghdad-Washington ties. The decision comes amid strained U.S.-Iraqi ties following last months Washington-...

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB: The Iraqi government has told its military not to seek assistance from the U.S.-led coalition in operations against the Islamic State group, two senior Iraqi military officials said, amid a crisis of mistrust between Washington and Baghdad after an American strike killed a top Iranian general and an Iraqi militia ...

Bloomberg - Five Katyusha rockets were fired at the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad Sunday night, one directly hitting the U.S. Embassy building, Iraqs security forces reported. U.S. helicopters were seen evacuating injured people, al-Sumaria News reported, citing an anonymous security official.The State Department released a statement that did ...

MNA Irans Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raeisi in a Saturday phone conversation with the head of the Supreme Judicial Council in Iraq Faiq Zaidan urged the country to sue the US for its crimes including assassination of the IRGC Commander Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani and his comarades. Calling the simultaneous Martyrdom of Lt. Gen. Soleimani and his companions ...

Reuters |John Davison, Aziz El Yaakoubi: Tens of thousands of Iraqis rallied in central Baghdad on Friday calling for the expulsion of U.S. troops, but the protest mostly dissipated after a few hours despite a clerics call for a million strong turnout. Populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr convened the march after the U.S. killing of an Iranian general ...

MNA Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council praised the Iraqi peoples massive turnout to the anti-US rallies that were held in Baghdad on Friday, saying Washington should await new displays of regional power. Shamkhani hailed epic rallies in Baghdad against US illegal presenceRear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, in a statement, commended the ...

Press TV - Iraqishave rallied in Baghdad in massive numbers to call for an end to US military presence in the country following high-profile assassinations and airstrikes targeting anti-terror forces. Sayed Sadiq al-Hashemi, the director of the Iraqi Center for Studies, said more than 2.5 million took part in the demonstrations on Friday. Since ...

Iran Review - The Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs asked its affiliated experts to share their thoughts on the assassination of Qasem Soleimani. Below are the short written submissions of the experts who responded. Daniel K. Khalessi The late, great strategic thinker and military historian Sir Basil Lidell Hart warned: If you concentrate ...

MNA Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei noted that activities of the Resistance Front would continue until US forces are expelled from the region. Making the remarks on the sidelines of a commemoration ceremony held in Tehran for Martyr Gen. Soleimani and his companions, Rezaei stated that the Karbala incident was repeated once again in ...

Tasnim - Thousands of people marched across the country on Thursday to mourn Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was martyred in a US airstrike last week. General Soleimani, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and a number of their entourage were killed in the strike by American drones near Baghdad International Airport in the early hours of last Friday. Irans ...

RT - Iraq and Iran have a mutual interest in each others security, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis told RT in 2017. The Iraqi militia leader was among those killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad that targeted Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani, head of Irans elite Quds Force, was the main target of Fridays drone attack, but the Americans apparently ...

ISNA | Mohammad Asadi & Ahmad Zohrabi: Hundreds of thousands of people in Qom packed the streets of the holy city to bid farewell to the Iranian anti-terror commander, Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani, who was martyred by US terrorists in Baghdad on Friday. The United States terrorist forces assassinated Lt. General Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-...