Kata'ib Hezbollah, an Iraq-based militant group thought to have ties to Iran, was founded in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and views American troops as foreign occupiers. The US designated the group a terrorist organisation in 2009, and an American drone strike killed its le...
US drone attacks, destroys armed truck in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP)-A U.S. drone attack targeted a truck for an Iran-backed militia in eastern Syria on Sunday, destroying the vehicle without causing any casualties, two Iraqi militia officials said. The attack came amid increasing tensions in the region between the U.S. military and Iran-back...
US troops in Syria and Iraq have frequently come under attack since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on October 7, 2023. US retaliatory counterstrikes against Iran-backed militias in the region have so far failed to ...
Iraq's prime minister described the attack as a dangerous escalation and a violation of his country's sovereignty. Image:Members of an Iraqi armed group sit in a vehicle after the drone strike Meanwhile, in a statement, Iraq's foreign ministry said: "Iraq reserves its right to take ...
On Sunday, three US servicemen were killed in a drone strike on an American base in Jordan. Pro-Iran militias, which have intensified their drone attacks on US bases in Syria and Iraq in tandem with the Israeli military cam...
U.S. officials say they believe Iran was behind the drone attack last week at the military outpost in southern Syria where American troops are based.
America’s War in Iraq has finally ended, but the same can’t be said about the United States’ presence overseas. Iraqis are now outraged that the US is operating a fleet of surveillance drone aircraft planes over the country. Only a month after the last US servicemen were sent out of ...
Al Mayadeen reported a drone attack on the Al-Tanf base and a missile attack on the Conoco base in the countryside of the northern Deir al-Zor region. It gave no further information. U.S. military forces in Iraq were targeted on Wednesday in two separate drone attacks, with one...
Wednesday’s drone strike was thesecond US attack in Iraqtargeting a senior leader of an Iranian-backed militia since October. Senior Biden administration officials have vowed the US wouldcontinue to respondto a deadly drone attack in Jordan late last month that killed three US troops and injured...