US President Donald Trump was outraged by the Iraqi parliament voting on January 5 to oust foreign forces, including some 5,200 American troops, who have helped local soldiers beat back jihadists since 2014.
Iran’s Ambassador to India Ali Chegeni also expressed the hope there would be no further escalation in hostilities between his country and the US.
ISIS remains a major security challenge for Iraq, despite the military victory in 2017. Therefore, the withdrawal of US troops ] will increase the possibility of the ISIS force and the possibility of attacking it and controlling it again in some areas.
After decades of sectarian strife and conflict, “a renewed sense of patriotism has taken hold”, the head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) told the Security Council on Tuesday.
French President Emmanuel Macron accused Turkey on Tuesday of working with Islamic State proxies and said Ankara’s ambiguity toward the group was detrimental to its NATO allies fighting in Syria and Iraq.
The index lists the Taliban as the deadliest terrorist group in the world now, accounting for 38 per cent of all terrorist deaths,
The financial and monetary situation in Lebanon is on the edge of the abyss due to the fact that public debt is now more than $80 billion, and some say reached the threshold of $100 billion, as well as because of the decline in cash reserves in hard currency in the Central Bank of Lebanon,
After the protests Tehran feels that it has lost Iraq. Even the nationalistic Shiites are today demonstrating against Iran
Special operations and intelligence veterans fear that President Donald Trump’s announcement of the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi could imperil future raids as he revealed a slew of sensitive details about the secret military operation.
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The SDF can return under umbrella of Syrian sovereignty, the government of President Bashar al-Assad.