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 Wall Street Journal | Michael R. Gordon & Gordon Lubold: Iraqs new prime minister and President Trump refrained on Thursday from setting a schedule for withdrawing American troops from the country, as they grappled with the threat posed by remnants of Islamic State and the ongoing need to train Iraqi forces. We definitely dont need combat ...

MNA Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi said that US bases in Iraq will probably be eliminated in the future. He made the remarks on Tuesday at a meeting to review the political developments in Iraq and noted that neither Iran nor the US can be removed from Iraq, however, US bases might be eliminated from the country in the future. I believe ...

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 ...

Al-Monitor | Hamdi Malik: Iran is continuing efforts to encourage anti-Americanism in the Middle East, especially in Iraq, to secure its own influence and interests. Dozens of Iran-aligned Muslim scholars from several countries, mainly in the Middle East, gathered Feb. 21 in Baghdad to participate in a forum of the fourth International Conference ...

Reuters - Pope Francis met Iraqs president on Saturday and the two agreed that the countrys sovereignty must be respected, following attacks on Iraqi territory this month by the United States and Iran. President Barham Salih held private talks for about 30 minutes with the pope and then met the Vaticans two top diplomats, Secretary of State Cardinal ...

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 ...

Tasnim Tehran's Provisional Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoleslam Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard said the Iraqi people created another Allahs day by staging a massive rally against the US military presence in the Arab country. Addressing worshipers here in Tehran on Friday, Hojjatoleslam Aboutorabi Fard referred to recent remarks made by Leader ...

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 ...

FNA - Spokesman of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif underlined that the IRGCs recent attacks on the US military bases in Iraq were just prelude to taking full revenge from that regime for the assassination of anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani which is expulsion of the American troops from ...

RT | Danielle Ryan: Donald Trumps threat to cut off Iraqs access to its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York if Baghdad insists on a withdrawal of US troops from its soil is bare-faced, modern-day colonialism. Lets set the scene. On January 5, the Iraqi parliament voted to approve a resolution calling for the removal of US troops....

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Aside from sending US-Iran tensions to all-time highs, the assassination of top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in an American drone strike has set the stage for a whole range of developments in the Middle East. To avenge the death of the powerful and popular Soleimani, Iran hopes to realize a long-standing aspiration: ...

Press TV - Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has demanded that Iraqis stage a million-man march against the continued US military presence in the country, days after Iraqs parliament voted to expel the American troops following an assassination operation by Washingtonon Iraqi soil. The march is needed to condemn the American presence ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump says he believes American troops should not leave Iraq unless Baghdad pays for the money we put in the country over the past several years. "I said, 'If we leave, you got to pay us,'" Trump said Friday in an Oval Office interview with Fox News. If we leave ... you have to pay us for the money we put in," Trump ...

The Guardian | Julian Borger: US defence secretary says no decision made to evacuate despite letter to contrary as thousands gather in General Qassem Suleimanis home town The future of the US military presence in Iraq is in question amid scenes of confusion in Washington, as the Trump administration scrambled to respond to Iraqi demands for the ...

IRNA - A spokesman for the Iraqi Armed Forces announced on Sunday that an operational mechanism to expel US troops from Iraq's territory kicked off. Iraqi media quoted Abdul Kareem Khalaf as saying the necessary mechanism had begun for driving out all foreign forces, including US troops from Iraq's territory. Some media have previously said that ...

BBC - President Trump has threatened severe sanctions against Iraq after its parliament called on US troops to leave the country. "We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that's there. It cost billions of dollars to build. We're not leaving unless they pay us back for it," he told reporters. Tensions are high after the US assassinated ...

Press TV - Iraqs influential cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, has released a statement saying that if US troops do not leave the country, Iraq will turn into a new Vietnam for Washington. Sadr, who leads the largest bloc in parliament, said in a letter to the assembly that a parliamentary resolution calling on the government to end foreign troop presence ...

FNA - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani described the Iraqi parliament decision to expel American troops from the Arab country as the first slap across the face of American President Donald Trump and his criminal companions after the assassination of the region's counter-terrorism Commander Lieutenant ...