Iraqis to the United States: What Part of “Go Home” Don’t You Understand?

Even amongst Iraq’s more pro-US factions, the calls for “Yankee go home” have grown increasingly louder.

Steven Sahiounie
بواسطة Steven Sahiounie
Iraq US Feature photo

Iranian forces launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against two military bases housing US troops in Iraq early hours of Wednesday morning. The al-Assad airbase in western Iraq was hit by 17 missiles, and 5 targeted at a base in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.  No US casualties were immediately reported. Iran’s supreme leader,

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Washington’s Syrian Chess Game Leaves Iraqi Forces Battling ISIS Dead

Iraqi forces targeting ISIS in southern Syria were recently targeted by a U.S. airstrike, leaving some pondering the possibility the U.S. is protecting the group to secure an American military presence in the region.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb

ABU KAMAL, SYRIA – Last Sunday, June 17, local Syrian media reported that the U.S. coalition had bombed Syrian Arab Army installments in the town of Al-Hariri. The bombing killed dozens of Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers as well as 22 fighters from the Iraqi paramilitary group known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Sha’abi, PMF), which

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With ISIS Defeated, An Iraqi Militia Turns to Mine Clearing and Social Work

The fight against extremists is almost over and one of the country’s Shiite militias is doing good deeds and eschewing politics. Is the al-Abbas Combat Brigade too good to be true?

Mustafa Habib
بواسطة Mustafa Habib
Combat engineering team of the #PMF began work on removing IEDs from roads leading to the northern border crossing with Iran, starting from east Basra province. (Photo: Official Twitter of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units)

For the people of Basra, unexploded ordnances and long-forgotten mines have been an ongoing concern; the explosives were left over from historical conflicts, such as the war between Iraq and Iran. Recently they have been getting help from a slightly unexpected quarter: Fighters from one of the country’s often-controversial Shiite Muslim militias

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