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Iraq looms as a key test of the US's priorities for countering Iranian power in the region. About 2,500 US troops remain in Iraq with a focus on assisting partners with countering ISIS.
Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones at Israel to lay down their weapons or join official security forces ...
The Iraqi News Agency (INA), (Arabic: وكالة الأنباء العراقية) was established in March 1959 during the era of Abdul Karim Qasim and headquartered in Baghdad. [1] [2] It is the second news agency among Arab countries in the region after the Middle East News Agency in Egypt, which was established in 1955. [3]
Aswat al-Iraq (in Arabic اصوات العراق, Kurdish ئهسوات ئهلعیراق) is an independent national news agency in Iraq, established in 2004. [1] Funded by the United Nations Development Program , [ 2 ] and with assistance from the Reuters Foundation and Internews , [ 3 ] it produces over 60 stories a day in Arabic, some ...
The U.S. has approximately 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in neighbouring Syria as part of the coalition formed in 2014 to combat Islamic State as it rampaged through the two countries.
He is appointed by the Prime Minister of Iraq, who is the commander-in-chief. The position dates to the period of the Independence of Iraq. [1] Up until 2003, the Chief of Staff was the second most senior officer in the Armed Forces behind the Minister of Defence. Since 8 June 2020, the current chief of the General Staff is General Abdel Emir ...
U.S. President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday sealed an agreement formally ending the U.S. combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021, more than 18 years after U.S ...
In January 2023, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Al Sudani defended the presence of U.S. troops in his country and set no timetable for their withdrawal, referring to the U.S. and NATO troop contingents that train and assist Iraqi units in countering Islamic State, but largely stay out of combat, though he mentioned that the U.S ...