At best, the world can reasonably expect an end to unilateral action, once again a departure from the strategy in Iraq.
January 12, 2020These protests come amid an escalation of tensions in the Middle East which was set off by the killing of Soleimani on January 3.
January 11, 2020Far from an essay towards defusing the ferment, Trump’s statement of intent comes after the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, defended the assertion that the drone strike against Suleimani in Baghdad prevented an imminent attack on US interests.
January 9, 2020The travel alert came after the January 3 US drone attack that killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, that has led to outrage and revenge threats from Tehran.
January 7, 2020It would be pesumptuous quite yet to hazard a guess on whether Friday’s killing of General Qassem Suleimani in a drone attack at Baghdad airport ~ and on the orders of Donald Trump ~ could ignite a war.
January 5, 2020Petrol in Delhi now costs Rs 75.54 per litre, the highest in more than a year, while a litre of diesel comes for Rs 68.51
January 5, 2020The low-key response of the Iraqi authorities is a striking feature of the siege by Iranian militants, who waved the banner of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an umbrella group for disparate Shia militias operating in Iraq.
January 4, 2020According to the embassy's statement, "US citizens should depart via airline while possible, and failing that, to other countries via land".
January 3, 2020The Pentagon's decision came hours after hundreds of demonstrators, mourning for the Hashd Shaabi members killed in a US attack in Iraq on Sunday, stormed the US embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone.
January 1, 2020In addition, up to 48 demonstrators and civil society activists were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen, he added.
December 21, 2019It is the latest in an uptick in rocket attacks targeting either Iraqi bases where American troops are located or the US embassy in Baghdad.
December 9, 2019Earlier on Friday, thousands of people were in Tahrir Square again to make it clear that the demands of protesters go far beyond the replacement of one prime minister with another.
December 7, 2019Up to 200,000 people had taken part in the demonstrations, led by a largely disenfranchised working class and joined by sections of the middle classes.
December 2, 2019The government has made every effort to respond to the demands of the demonstrators by providing packages of reform, the statement further added.
December 1, 2019A third bomb ripped through the al-Baladiyat neighbourhood in the eastern part of the capital, leaving four more people wounded.
November 27, 2019Later on Saturday, Pence met with the President of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani, in the Iraqi city of Erbil, where the US has routinely based some US special operations forces.
November 24, 2019The 89-year-old cleric is based in the Shiite holy city of Najaf and never appears in public, remains hugely influential in the Shiite-majority south.
November 16, 2019