2 month agoPeshemrga sends reinforcement to Kolajo area, Garmiyan region after ISIS recent attacks
DOD considering sending thousands more troops to the Middle East to beef up air defense capabilities in face of Iranian moves including transfer of short-range missiles into Iraq: US officials. The most realistic option for now: 4,000 to 7,000. No decisions yet
Iraq parliament votes to "retire" electoral commission officials after protest pressure. Parliamentary speaker Halbousi calls move the "beginning of real reform"
2 month agoA building belonging to Karbala Governorate set on fire by protesters
Iraq: Two projectiles fall on Balad air base without causing any damage
2 month agoSuffocation cases in Karbala after security forces deployed tear gas against protesters
2 month agoRally at Tahrir Square in central Baghdad
2 month agoCoalition envoy James Jeffrey met with Iraqi president @BarhamSalih Most likely coming to Hewler too
Large numbers of demonstrators heading towards Tahrir Square in Baghdad
2 month agoIran backed militias (Kataeb Hizbullah) launched new demonstrations in Tahrir Square with anti U.S/Saudi/Israel slogans, and posters
New York Times, citing intelligence and military officials: Iran exploited chaos in Iraq to build a hidden arsenal of short-range ballistic missiles to intimidate the Middle East and confirm its strength
ISIS attack injures 3 Peshmerga in Kolajo, Garmiyan. Clashes ongoing, according to Rudaw's reporter
Netanyahu says before his meeting with Pompeo that the demonstrations in Lebanon, Iraq and Iran give a big opportunity to enhance the pressure on the Iranian government
Team of NRT journalists freed shortly after being arrested in Sulaimani
2 month agoThe Iraqi PMF said their units conducted a pre-emptive operation in Ninewa's Jazira area near the Syrian border, indicating that they cleared 4 villages which ISIS militants used as bases to attack security forces
Nine Iraqi security personnel were wounded when a grenade was thrown in Al-Rasheed Street in Baghdad
Skirmishes in Al Wathba Square in Baghdad between protesters and security forces
PMF dealing with attack by ISIS in Diyala
For the third time protesters set fire on the Iranian consulate in Najaf province
Iraqi security forces use tear gas and sound bombs to disperse demonstrators who tried to storm the local government building in central Karbala
2 month agoCalm demonstrations in Najaf city tonight
Iraqi security officials in Kirkuk claim to have captured a cousin of former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Rockets landed in Ain Al-Assad Base, Al-Anbar, Iraq
U.N. envoy to Iraq Plasschaert to UNSC: We warn of a real disaster in Iraq
2 month agoIn Diwaniya: The various segments participate in sit-ins in a sad atmosphere mourning the dead
UN Representative in Iraq: The killing of peaceful demonstrators in Iraq cannot be justified
Trump: they shut down the Internet in Iraq so that the picture of the murder does not appear
Trump: Iraq protests are huge and a lot of people are being killed
Hamas denies any relation with the events in Iraq and Lebanon
Federal police chief: reinforcements of 150 fighters arrived in Basra prison to protect it
