Reuters - United States-led international coalition troops withdrew from Iraqs Taji military base on Sunday and handed it over to Iraqi security forces, Reuters witnesses and the coalition said. The base, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, had been the site of frequent rocket attacks by Iran-backed militias targeting U.S.-led troops in recent months....

The Intercept | Murtaza Hussain: If you listened closely this week, behind the terrifying clamor of Covid-19 sweeping across the planet, you mightve heard the sound of war nearly breaking out again between the United States and Iran. On Wednesday, the birthday of assassinated Iranian Gen. Qassim Suleimani, a barrage of rockets slammed into the Camp ...

Press TV - The US military plans to keep two aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf region, the commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced, claiming the move is aimed at deterring Iran from taking retaliatory action for what he described as defensive air strikes against Iraqi installations days ago. "We're going to keep [the carriers] ...

Sputnik - The US government can expect continued military resistance in the Middle East as long as it continues its illegal occupation of Iraq, Mohammad Marandi, an expert on American studies and postcolonial literature who teaches at the University of Tehran, told Sputnik. The US on Thursday conducted retaliatory strikes against Iraqi Shia paramilitary ...

IRNA - Swiss ambassador to Tehran was summoned to Iranian Foreign Ministry to hear strong protest over baseless accusation made by US President Donald Trump. The Swiss ambassador, in charge of looking after the US Interest Section, attended the Iranian Foreign Ministry office on Friday afternoon, according to spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Abbas ...

Reuters - Multiple rockets fell on Saturday morning inside Iraqs Taji military base that houses U.S.-led coalition troops, for the second time in a week, security sources told Reuters. An Iraqi colonel inside the base told Reuters he heard at least 10 rockets hit the base and said he could now hear sirens blaring. A similar rocket attack on Wednesday ...

Tasnim Secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said there might be links between the US regime's move to assassinate top Iranian commander Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and its recent claims about the attack on its base in Iraq. "In a visit to Iraq, I called on the country's officials to find the domestic traces of ...

Reuters - Irans foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump should blame attacks against U.S. and allied forces in Iraq on their presence and behavior. Instead of undertaking dangerous steps and resorting to baseless accusations, Trump should review the illegal presence and behavior of his troops in the region and ...

Press TV - The United States has carried out a string of airstrikes against multiple locations of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Shaabi, only a day after more than a dozen of the Iraqi fighters were killed by airstrikes targeting an area in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour. TheIraqiInterior ...

Reuters - One British and two American personnel were killed and about a dozen people were wounded when 18 small rockets hit Iraqs Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday, U.S. officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. The officials, who cautioned the death toll may rise given the severity of some of the injuries, said ...

Press TV - The Iraqi military says Katyusha rockets have hit an airbase north of the capital Baghdad, which houses the US-led coalition forces that purportedly fight Daesh Takfiri terrorists. The statement from Iraq's military on Tuesday said Camp Taji had been targeted by Katyusha rockets but reported that there were no casualties. The statement ...