Drones and rockets from Iranian-backed militias have targetedU.S. forces in Iraq and Syria 16 times in the past 10 days,causing more than 20 injuries as the Pentagon is surging airdefenses to the region.The most recent attack targeted U.S. forces at a base attachedto the airport in ...
The Pentagon has not identified the perpetrators of the two attacks, but in the past, attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria have been carried out by Iran-backed militia groups. The number of attacks ramped up after Oct. 7, when the war between Israel and Hamas broke out. Since ...
The U.S. began conducting airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Friday against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups, the U.S. Central Command said, in what the Biden administration has called a "multi-tiered" response to a deadly drone attack that killed three ...
The last major Iranian attack on U.S. forces was inJanuary 2020, when Tehran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles on al-Asad air base in Iraq. U.S. and coalition troops were warned of the incoming missiles and were able to take cover, butmore than 100 U.S. service membersreceived ...
The U.S. military shot down dozens of missiles and drones Saturday that were fired at Israel from Iran and its proxy forces in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Iran launched its first-ever direct assault on Israel Saturday, less than two weeks after a suspected Israeli strike in Syria killed two ...
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said in a statement that additional RAF jets and air refuelling tankers had also been deployed to the region to "bolster" Operation Shader - the UK's existing counter-IS operation in Iraq and Syria. "In addition, the jets will intercept airborne attacks within ra...
In recent weeks, Iranian-backed Iraqi militias have resumed launching attacks on bases housing U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria after a lull of several months after a strike on a base in Jordan killed three American soldiers in late January, prompting a series of ...
Their two case studies focus on US drone attacks in Pakistan and the use of human shields in Gaza (the image below, taken from the article, shows the Israeli Defence Force’s ‘Laboratory of Discrimination’ (sic)). You can watch a video where Nicola and Neve discuss their ideas on the...
Security Council(UNSC) by the British government had claimed drone strikes in Syria were “a necessary and proportionate exercise of the individual right of self-defence of the United Kingdom,” but added that “action against ISIL in Syria is lawful in the collective self-defence of Iraq.” ...
1. SYRIA AND BEYOND:As the White House scrambles to navigate the ramifications of the the unrest in Syria, Secretary of StateANTONY BLINKENmade an unannounced visit to Iraq today to help shore up support for a smooth transition of governments,WSJ’s Lara Seligman ...