TEHRAN (Tasnim) 155 members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) are believed to have flown from Iraq to Albania on a civil aircraft, according to reports suggesting that the transfer was in coordination with American military forces and Saudis. The MKO members had been residing in Camp Liberty near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A ringleader of the anti-Iran Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) along with several other members of the terrorist group has fled from Camp Liberty near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. Sorayya Shahri and several other members of the MKO secretly escaped from the former US military Camp Liberty outside Baghdad. For many years,...

At least 20 members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have reportedly been killed in an incident during which a barrage of rockets was fired at their camp in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Iraqi police confirmed that at least 15 rockets had slammed into Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty) near Baghdad International Airport on Thursday ...

Baghdad, Dec 18, IRNA Some 17 members of terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization have fled the former US-held Camp Liberty near Baghdad International Airport since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year, an Iraqi informed source said on Wednesday. Speaking to IRNA correspondent on condition of anonymity, the source said lack of information ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- UK Immigration Minister Mark Harper said the country has not yet made any decision on giving asylum to the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCRI and PMOI). None of the 52 residents of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty who were previously settled in the UK have any current immigration status here, ...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- A Shiite militia has claimed responsibility for a rocket attack over the weekend on a sprawling camp near Baghdad that killed two members of an Iranian exile group. Saturday's attack on Camp Liberty also killed an Iraqi and wounded nine Iranians and seven Iraqis. Cleric Wathiq al-Batat, who leads the Mukhtar Army, told The Associated ...

AFP -A rocket attack on an Iranian exile group housed at a camp near Baghdad on Saturday resulted in fatalities, a United Nations spokeswoman said, the second deadly attack on the camp this year. "I can confirm that there was a deadly attack," UN spokeswoman Eliana Nabaa told AFP. "We don't have the figures but yes, people were killed and injured....

PARIS (AP) -- With its militant wing no longer a terror organization as far as the U.S. government is concerned, an Iranian opposition group hosted a U.S. House delegation for the first time Sunday and briefed the lawmakers on the fallout of a deadly rocket attack at a refugee camp in Iraq. The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a France-based ...

The Albanian government said on Saturday the Balkan country was ready to take in 210 members of an Iranian opposition group who currently live at a former US military base inIraq. "The government is ready to accommodate in Albania, for humanitarian reasons, 210 members of the People's Mujahedeen ofIran", or the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), Prime Minister ...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- A spokesman says a member of an Iranian opposition group exiled in Iraq has died of injuries sustained in an attack last month on their camp near Baghdad. Shahin Gobadi of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran said Thursday the death brought to eight the number of people killed when assailants fired rockets and mortars ...

GENEVA: The UN's refugee agency voiced "deep concern" Friday for the security of Iranian opposition members at a camp in Iraq, which is facing new threats of attack after a recent assault killed seven people. "This population is entitled to international protection according to international law," the agency said in a statement. On February 9, ...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- The head of a new Shiite militant group in Iraq on Tuesday threatened to carry out more attacks on a refugee camp for Iranian exiles that was struck by dozens of rockets and mortar shells earlier this month. Seven people were killed in the Feb. 9 attack on the camp near Baghdad airport that houses members of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or ...

BAGHDAD: An Iranian exile group attacked inIraqthis month has moved from terrorism lists to international good graces, butBaghdadwants it out over its opposition to Iran's rulers and ties to Saddam Hussein. On February 9, mortar rounds and rockets slammed into Camp Liberty, a former US military base near Baghdad that now houses some 3,000 members ...

The United States rejected calls Tuesday for Iranian exiles housed in a camp near Baghdad that came under mortar and rocket attack to be sent back to live in their former base. The death toll from Saturday's assault on Camp Liberty, which houses about 3,000 members of the opposition People's Mujahedeen of Iran, meanwhile rose to seven, the group said....

Iran news headlines on Tuesday include Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesmancall fordestruction of all nuclear weapons; Iran permissionfor UN nuclear watchdog's demands to visit military site; Iran denial of link with rocket attack onIranian exiles at refugee camp; a number of senior Iranian lawmakers urginginvestigationover country's Majlis speaker incidentin ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has nothing to do with the recent rocket attack on Camp Liberty, the transient settlement facility of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) in Iraq, an Iranian spokesman said. Media reports alleged that Katyusha rockets fired on the Camp Liberty near Baghdad have killed ...

UNITED NATIONS: The UN secretary-general and the US government condemned a deadly attack on an Iranian dissident camp in the Iraqi capital early on Saturday and urged Iraqi authorities to carry out a full investigation. (Ban Ki-moon) strongly condemns the mortar attack today on Camp Liberty, the temporary transit facility near Baghdad for former residents ...