The truck rattling by at 2 pm on March 3 was a well-recognized sight to residents of the Bedouin encampment in Iraq’s rugged western desert — an area shepherd’s pickup, en path to the closest city of al-Nukhaib. Its return a couple of hours later, flaming and riddled with bullets, was something however routine. A…
Baghdad: A video purportedly displaying a US F-15 fighter jet chasing what looks as if Iranian Shahed drones over Iraqi skies has gone viral on social media. The footage, shared by a number of Iranian-backed channels, confirmed the chase, adopted by a big floor explosion and smoke plume. The accounts sharing the video on The…
American journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped this Tuesday by a bunch of unidentified males in the Karrada district, in the middle of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The kidnapping is the primary to be recorded because the starting of the US and Israeli offensive towards Iran and occurred in the neighborhood of the Palestine Hotel, the…
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Iraq coach Graham Arnold was stranded in Fujairah, on the japanese coast of the United Arab Emirates, earlier this month as a result of the conflict in the Middle East. He puzzled if his nationwide workforce may even compete for one final likelihood to qualify for the 2026 World Cup. After…
No group has claimed accountability for the attacks, which passed off amid the escalating Israel-US struggle on Iran. Listen to this text | 2 minutes information Published On 16 Mar 2026Mar 16, 2026 Click right here to share on social media share2 Share plus2GoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinformation A distinguished lodge in central Baghdad’s closely…
The US military’s Central Command confirmed Friday that every one six US service members were killed yesterday when an aerial refueling aircraft participating in operations in opposition to Iran crashed in western Iraq. “The circumstances of the incident are under investigation. However, the loss of the aircraft was not due to hostile fire or friendly…
Updated on: March 12, 2026 / 6:03 PM EDT /CBSNews Washington — An American military aerial refueling tanker that was concerned in the US military operation in Iran crashed in Western Iraq on Thursday, in keeping with a number of US officials who spoke to CBS News. Recovery efforts are underway in the world the…
Explosions are being heard in Iran, Israel and throughout a number of Middle Eastern states after the United States and Israel started attacking Iran on Saturday. Tehran has responded by launching waves of missiles and drones at Israel and in the direction of a number of army bases within the Middle East the place US…
Is publicly confronting the probably subsequent prime minister of Iraq the suitable technique for the United States? The nomination of Nouri al Maliki by the Coordination Framework, the organizing physique of Shiite politics in Iraq, on Jan. 24, and the blunt and public objection by President Donald Trump three days later, have uncovered a rising…
Iraq expects the US transfer of ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq to end on February 12, Iraq’s Justice Minister Khaled Shwani told Kurdish channel Rudaw. This is an important accomplishment. In two weeks, around 7,000 ISIS detainees were expected to be moved from Syria to Iraq in a mission that US Central Command undertook…
