US drone attacks, destroys armed truck in Iraq
A person familiar with the matter said the strike killed Wisam Mohammed “Abu Baqer” al-Saadi, the commander in charge of Kataib Hezbollah’s operations in Syria. Wednesday’s drone strike was thesecond US attack in Iraqtargeting a senior leader of an Iranian-backed militia since October. S...
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...
Defense systems shot down an armed drone on Wednesday over Erbil airport in northern Iraq where US and other international forces are stationed, Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said. A statement from the service did not say if there were any casualties or damage to infrastructure as a...
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...
Anger regarding Israel’s devastating campaign in Gaza has expanded across West Asia, stoking violence that also involves Iran-backed groups in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen. On 28 January, a drone reportedly slammed into a base located in Jordan, taking the lives of three U.S. soldiers ...
US names alleged culprit behind deadly drone strike Following Biden’s announcement, Kataib Hezbollah, the most powerful Iraqi militia group, announced it would suspend“military and security operations against the occupation forces [US troops] – in order to prevent embarrassment to the Iraqi governmen...
Today's D Brief: Russian jet collides with US drone; USAF not buying hypersonics in 2024; America's Iraq invasion, revisited; And a bit more. A Russian military jet collided with a United States military drone over the Black Seaat about 7 a.m. local time Tuesday. The collision occurred...
-president joe biden warned prime minister benjamin netanyahu the u.s. will not take part in a counter-offensive against iran, an option netanyahu's war cabinet favors after a mass drone and missile attack on israeli territory, according to officials. the threat of open w...
Mr Biden labelled the attack by Iran and its "proxies operating out of Yemen, Syria and Iraq", as "unprecedented". He condemned it in the strongest possible terms and said that the US military had moved aircrafts and ballistic missile defence destroyers to the region over the cour...