2 month agoPMF seized a motorbike west of Tuz after spotting and chasing down an element that was carrying IEDs along with mortar shells.
Tomorrow there will be a strike in Mosul where teachers will protest to ask for their rights.
2 month agoMasrour Barzani: Substantive exchange today with Defense Minister Hulusi Akar of Turkey during the second day of Munich Security Conference. We discussed regional developments and issues of bilateral importance.
Pence: We have faced extreme terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Daesh has been completely disintegrated
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) halts oil exports tankers to Iran.
A US senator: "The Islamic State in Syria and Iraq is over"
Iraq Army Aviation killed 3 ISIS south of Qa'im after targeting their vehicle.
Kurdistan announces it will stop oil exports to Iran.
Iranian President Rouhani: The United States, unfortunately, protects terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq.
Iraq: Eight members of Sadr's al-Salam brigades were killed between Anbar and Salahuddin
US Vice President: ISIS's alleged caliphate will soon be a thing of history
The United Nations will hold a Security Council meeting on the situation in Iraq
PM says Iraq to repatriate Iraqi IS fighters held in Syria
PMF and Border Guards back on high alert after reports that SDF withdrew from Baghuz Faqani and Tahtani following a series of suicide attacks by ISIS.
In an attack, IS militants in Diyala, Iraq claim targeting a Shi'a village al-Ma'adan with mortar shells
2 month agoPKK ATGM target a military position belonging to the Turkish army on Lêlîkanê hill in Sîdekanê, KRG Iraq. PKK claim 3 soldiers were killed.
Military B350 on ISR mission over Tikrit Iraq. 1132z
SecGen: Our new training mission in Iraq
Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan has arrived in Baghdad to talk to the Iraqis about their "security concerns", the "political dynamics that they're facing and then, and based on that, we'll obviously factor that into our planning. "
2 month agoMore than 200 members of a Da'ish terror network in Ramadi have been detained by Iraq's intelligence apparatus in one of the biggest anti-terror operations carried out in recent memory. This is a massive blow to Da'ish and its long-term revival in Anbar province.
In Iraq, 77 MPs sign petition calling for end of US-Iraq strategic agreement. Uncertainty of total number of US forces in Iraq and their true mission in light of recent statement by US president that US forces are in Iraq to observe Iran.
2 month agoReports that a Peshmerga force has resumed operations at a barracks outside of Kifri that was previously vacated during the law enforcement operation of October 2017. This site was never taken by Iraqi Forces and lies on the road between Kifri and Tuz.
United Nations: Daesh leaders planning international terrorist operations
United Nations: ISIS still poses threat and has about 3,000 foreign fighters
PMF repelled an attack by ISIS in vicinity of Ba'aj
The United Nations: ISIS has significant financial and investment reserves
A session of the Security Council on the threat posed by ISIS in Syria and Iraq
Daesh claims killing an Interior Ministry official and 2 of his guards about 20km north of Rutbah, in Anbar province. US special forces were seen by locals coming into the area, probably tracking Daesh fighters.
Iran Revolutionary Guards: Tehran will not withdraw its forces from the region, dismissing U.S. calls that Iranian regional influence should be curbed. "The enemy cannot ask us to leave the region. They must leave the region"
Iraqi policeman killed in ISIS attack in Khanaqin
