A woman passes by Iraqi security forces while they remove cement blocks and open the streets, that were closed for security concerns, around the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. Iran-backed militiamen have withdrawn from the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad after two days of ...
The Pentagon issued a stern warning against future attacks on US diplomatic outposts in Iraq, with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, telling reporters on Thursday that "anyone who attempts to overrun" the US Embassy in Baghdad "will run into a buzzsaw."/ In response to ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ These are external links and will open in a new window/ Protests outside the US embassy in Baghdad continued on Wednesday Protesters who have been demonstrating outside the US embassy in Iraq for a second day have withdrawn from the area ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ These are external links and will open in a new window/ Fires were set next to the walls of the embassy compound by angry demonstrators US President Donald Trump has issued a threat to Iran, after blaming the nation for an attack on the US ...
backed militiamen withdrew from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after two days of protests against deadly U.S. airstrikes./ BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran-backed militiamen withdrew from the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Wednesday after two days of clashes with American security forces, but U.S.-Iran ...
Fire breaks out in Nasser Hospital after Israeli air strike/ An Israeli air strike on a hospital in Gaza killed a senior Hamas leader and an aide on Sunday evening, a Hamas official told the BBC. Ismail Barhoum, the head of the group's financial affairs, was killed in the strike on Nasser ...
More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed during Israel's military campaign in Gaza, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry has announced. That number - 50,021 - equates to about 2.1% of the 2.3 million pre-war population of the territory, or around 1 in 46 people. A total of 113,274 ...
Israel resumed its ground operation in Gaza on Tuesday, killing hundreds of people/ An Israeli air strike in the southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza has killed top Hamas political leader Salah al-Bardaweel, a Hamas official told the BBC early on Sunday. Locals say the air strike killed both ...
Smoke billows from the site of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon/ Israel has carried out the most intense air strikes on Lebanon in nearly four months, after several rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel for the first time since a ceasefire came into effect in November. The Israeli ...
Israel's defence minister has told the military to "seize additional areas in Gaza" and threatened to permanently occupy parts of it, if Hamas does not free all remaining hostages. Israel Katz said that the military would continue its ground operation in Gaza "with increasing intensity" until ...
White Helmet teams were conducting around 30 response calls a day at the height of the attacks/ When violence broke out in Syria's coastal area recently, including mass killings of civilians allegedly carried out as revenge for attacks on Syrian security forces, volunteer rescuers quickly came ...
Ronen Bar was formally dismissed by the Israeli cabinet on Thursday/ Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired the head of the nation's security service over its failure to anticipate the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas. The Israeli cabinet met on Thursday evening to formally approve ...
Israel resumed large-scale air strikes on Gaza on Tuesday/ At least 85 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza since midnight, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry has said. Hours later, Israel's military said it had intercepted three rockets, which Hamas's armed wing ...
Moment French tourist detained in Iran returns/ A French tourist detained by Iranian authorities for more than two years has been released and returned to France, President Emmanuel Macron has said. Olivier Grondeau, 34, is "free" and with his family, Macron wrote on X on Thursday, adding: "We ...
The Houthis say they are acting in support of the Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza/ Yemen's rebel Houthi group has said it has fired a missile at Israel, which was intercepted. The ballistic missile was fired toward Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, the group's military ...