Iraq’s Yazidis gather to remember the dead and missing, 10 years on from Islamic State genocide | Iraq
Ten years ago Saturday, the Islamic State (IS) invaded Iraq’s Sinjar province, expelling, killing and enslaving hundreds of thousands of Yazidis. On Saturday morning, crowds gathered for a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the genocide at the “Tomb of the Mothers,” where 111 elderly women were shot to death or buried alive after being […]
US forces conduct defensive airstrike in Iraq
U.S. forces in Iraq conducted defensive airstrikes in Musaib, Babil province, on Tuesday evening, a U.S. military official confirmed to Fox News. Officials said the attack was carried out at 5pm ET and targeted a militant attempting to launch a Unilateral Attack Unmanned Aerial System (OWAUAS). “Based on recent attacks in Iraq and Syria, U.S. […]
Iraq Demands Olympics Keep Israeli Flag Away from Theirs, IOC Says No
Helder Rauf, head of Iraq’s delegation to the Paris Olympics, said Saturday that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had rejected Iraq’s request not to fly the Israeli flag next to the Iraqi flag during soccer matches. “When we arrived at the Lyon stadium, the Iraqi flag was flying next to the Israeli flag,” Rauf said. […]
Rockets launched at US forces stationed at Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq
Four rockets landed near Ain al-Asad Air Base in Iraq, where US troops are stationed, on Thursday, but no one was injured and there was no damage to the base, Fox News reported. A US defense official told Fox News that the rockets did not land on the base. The attack came just days after […]
Iraq Issues Death Sentence for Wife of Slain Islamic State Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council on Wednesday sentenced the unnamed wife of former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death, nearly five years after her husband was killed in a U.S. special forces operation ordered by President Donald Trump. An Iraqi court found Baghdadi’s wife guilty of collaborating with ISIS operations and holding Yazidi women […]