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On Tuesday, the Pentagon said the Iraqi government must “ensure the safety” of US troops and appeared to threaten airstrikes if there are more attacks on US bases in the region. The warning c...

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/23/us-tells-iraq-to-ensure-the-safety-of-us-troops-threatens-escalation/

US troops in Iraq and Syria came under two separate rocket and drone attacks in less than 24 hours, Reuters reported Monday, citing US and Iraqi officials. The officials said the attacks were the...

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/22/us-bases-in-iraq-and-syria-come-under-rocket-and-drone-attack/

Following a meeting between President Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, there’s no sign a US withdrawal from Iraq will happen anytime soon despite earlier calls from al-Su...

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/17/no-sign-of-us-withdrawal-from-iraq-after-pm-visits-washington/

US-backed Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria are responsible for torture and “mass death” due to inhumane conditions at detention facilities that were set up after the defeat of ISIS, Amn...

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/17/amnesty-us-backed-kurds-in-syria-are-running-torture-prisons-and-responsible-for-mass-death/

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is worried that Israel might strike Iran’s nuclear program in response to the Iranian drone and missile attack on Israeli territory, which was a re...

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/16/iaea-worries-israel-could-strike-irans-civilian-nuclear-program/

According to US Central Command (CENTCOM), the US and its partner forces in Iraq and Syria conducted 94 operations against ISIS in the first three months of this year. CENTCOM said it was involve...

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/08/us-says-it-conducted-94-missions-against-isis-in-iraq-and-syria-this-year/

The Iraqi government said on Sunday that it had resumed talks with the US on the future of the US military presence in Iraq amid outrage over US airstrikes in the country. “The supreme Iraqi mi...

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/11/iraq-says-it-resumed-talks-with-us-on-future-us-withdrawal/

Iraq has repeated its call for an end to the US military presence following a US drone strike in Baghdad that killed a senior member of Kataib Hezbollah, a Shia militia that’s part of Iraq’s ...

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/08/iraq-repeats-call-for-us-forces-to-withdraw-after-baghdad-drone-strike/

A US drone strike targeting a vehicle in Baghdad on Wednesday killed three members of Kataib Hezbollah, including a high-ranking commander, marking another US escalation in Iraq. Kataib Hezbollah...

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/07/us-drone-strike-in-baghdad-kills-high-ranking-kataib-hezbollah-commander/

The White House has walked back a false claim it made about the US notifying the Iraq government before launching a series of airstrikes across eastern Syria and western Iraq on Friday. White Hou...

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/05/white-house-walks-back-false-claim-that-it-notified-iraq-before-launching-airstrikes/