Russia condemns US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria and the situation needs to be considered by the UN Security Council, Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday. "It is obvious that the airstrikes are deliberately designed to further inflame the conflict. By attacking,...
Strikes by the United States on Iraqi military positions will lead to "irresponsible escalation" and violate the country's sovereignty, the Iraq prime minister's office said in a statement on Wednesday. The US carried out strikes against three facilities linked to Iran-backed militia on Tuesday,...
CENTCOM said in a post on X that the strikes were carried out at 12:15 am Wednesday Iraq time, targeting three facilities used by the Kataib Hezbollah (KH) militia group and other Iran-affiliated groups in Iraq. The strikes were in response to KH's recent attacks, including the attack o...
As tension continues to escalate in the region, the US airstrikes could be just the initial stages of a succession of targeted attacks on pro-Iran militias in Syria, as reported by the Observatory. The airstrikes have been ...
Iran, which has said it wants to avoid a broader regional conflict, warned after last Friday’s wave of strikes that they would increase instability in the region. Kataib Hizbollah said after the Jordan strike that they were suspending further attacks on American troops ...
forces near Erbil airport in northern Iraq. A group calling itself the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which analysts say is a catch-all for several Iran-aligned Iraqi armed groups, had claimed attacks on those locations earlier in the day. The attacks come the day after the U.S. struck the ...
airstrikes Sunday that killed 25 fighters of the Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Kataeb Hezbollah. The U.S. military said the strikes were in retaliation for last week’s killing of an American contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base that the U.S. blamed on...
Tuesday's strikes were the first IRGC missile operation to target two different regions at the same time, local Iranian media reported. The most recent strike by Iran within Iraq appeared to have been in 2020, when the country fired at least 16 missiles into the neighboring ...
The U.S. military said it carried out airstrikes on Tuesday targeting areas of eastern Syria controlled by Iran-backed militias. The "precision strikes" in the oil-rich Deir ez-Zor province, near Syria's border with Iraq, "targeted infrastructure facilities used by group...
(Reuters) -The United States carried out two air strikes in Syria against Iran and its aligned groups on Sunday, the Pentagon said, in the latest response to a series of attacks against American forces in Syria and in Iraq. In a statement, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd...