These are external links and will open in a new window/ The Popular Mobilisation's fighters played a key role in the war against IS in Iraq The head of an Iran-backed paramilitary force in Iraq has distanced it from a claim by his deputy that the US was responsible for several recent explosions ...
Members of Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) paramilitaries march with the group's flags during a parade marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Day in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on May 31. (HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP/Getty Images)/ Beirut bureau chief, covering Lebanon, Syria ...
Iraqi Shiite fighters of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force secure the border area with Syria in al-Qaim in Iraq's Anbar province late last year (AFP Photo/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)/ Baghdad (AFP) - Iraqi paramilitary units said Wednesday they held the US responsible for a string of mysterious ...
In this Monday, Aug. 12, 2019 file photo, plumes of smoke rise after an explosion at a military base southwest of Baghdad, Iraq. A fact-finding committee appointed by the Iraqi government to investigate a massive munitions depot explosion near the capital Baghdad has concluded that the blast was ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ An explosion on 12 August near Baghdad sent rockets shooting though the capital A powerful Iran-backed paramilitary force in Iraq has said it holds the US responsible for a series of blasts at its bases in recent weeks. The deputy head of ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — The Latest on explosion near Baghdad earlier in the month (all times local): Iran-backed militias in Iraq have said they hold the United States responsible for a series of attacks targeting militia bases across the country. In a statement issued Wednesday, the deputy head of the ...
Explosions rocked once again rocked military positions in Iraq just days after the country imposed new airspace restrictions and Israel hinted it would target Iran there. Iraq's Civil Defense announced Tuesday that firefighters managed to contain a fire that broke out at a site in Balad, a city ...
16PM [Updated: Tue Aug 20, 2019 06:28PM ]/ This black smoke is seen rising in the sky following several blasts at a position of Iraqi pro-government of pro-government Popular Mobilization Units, better known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha'abi, near Balad air base north of Baghdad, Iraq, on ...
06PM [Updated: Thu Aug 22, 2019 06:18PM ]/ Iraq's pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha’abi, says it has shot down an unidentified spy drone over capital Baghdad. According to a statement by the PMU, carried by the Arabic-language ...
26PM [Updated: Thu Aug 22, 2019 04:26PM ]/ This file picture shows fighters from the pro-government Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units, better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, in an undisclosed location in Iraq. (Phot by the media bureau of Popular Mobilization Units)/ Senior Iraqi ...
15PM [Updated: Wed Aug 21, 2019 04:15PM ]/ In this file picture, fighters from Iraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Units, better known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha’abi, march during a parade marking the annual Quds Day in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Reuters)/ An Iraqi legislator says ...
for Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has triggered a furious response from leading Israelis across the political spectrum. By contrast it has been welcomed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and ordinary citizens in Gaza. Leading ...
Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Yoav Gallant (C) and Mohammed Deif (R)/ Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as the military commander of Hamas. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...
based monitoring group posted a video that it said showed the aftermath of the strikes in Palmyria/ At least 36 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report. ...
Hanan Abu Salameh, 59, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while she harvested olives/ On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank. It ...
A senior Palestinian official said Khalil al-Hayya (R) was likely to be in Turkey (file photo)/ The most senior Hamas leader outside Gaza and other key figures in its negotiating team are no longer in Doha, Qatar’s government and a senior Palestinian official have said. Qatar’s foreign ministry ...
A video showed the woman sitting in her underwear on steps at Islamic Azad University before walking down a nearby street/ An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear in an apparent anti-hijab protest at a university in Tehran, Iranian authorities say. Earlier in ...
Axios reported last week that a “nuclear weapons research facility“ at Parchin was hit in late October/ Israel’s prime minister says it hit part of Iran’s nuclear programme last month, despite pleas from the US not to do so during the strikes it carried out in response to a missile attack. “It’s ...