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A team of US troops was on the ground in Iraq’s Anbar province on Tuesday as Washington steps up efforts to help Iraqi forces battle the Islamic State jihadist group. The Pentagon confirmed about 50 ...
News Iraq » Al Anbar: Iraq braces for renewed Iran conflict after 1,000 strikes on Kurdistan, 600 militia attacks
Baghdad shut crossings with Iran this week, and the Kurdistan Region denied hosting Ukrainian drones, as Iraq moves to avoid being drawn into another round of fighting.
News Iraq » Al Anbar: IS reduces water supply to government areas in Iraq’s Anbar
BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State militants have reduced the amount of water flowing to government-held areas in Iraq’s western Anbar province, an official said Thursday, the latest in the vicious war as ...
News Iraq » Al Anbar: Airstrikes in Iraq on Iran-backed paramilitary alliance kill at least 15 fighters
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mourners carry the coffin of Saad al-Baiji, the Popular Mobilisation Forces' Anbar operations commander, who was killed in ...
News Iraq » Al Anbar: Promoting Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism in Iraq: UNOCT and the National Security Advisory of the Republic of Iraq work on Capacity-Building for Investigators in Anbar and ...
As part of its project “Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism: Capacity-building Support to Law Enforcement and Intelligence Services in Iraq”, the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), ...
News Iraq » Al Anbar: ‘Sons of Iraq’ Transition to New Role, Purpose in Anbar
The once-restless and violent western Iraqi province of Anbar produced a grassroots security movement in June 2007 that came to be known as the “Awakening.” The movement grew rapidly throughout the ...
News Iraq » Al Anbar: Changes in Anbar, Afghanistan Good Signs, Chairman Says
Changes in Iraq’s Anbar province and the failure of the Taliban spring offensive in Afghanistan are good signs, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said during an interview today on his way home ...
News Iraq » Al Anbar: US Airstrikes in Iraq Kill 15 PMF Fighters, Including Senior Commander
Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said on Tuesday that US airstrikes in Anbar, western Iraq, killed 15 of its fighters, including a senior commander. “In a blatant and cowardly attack, the ...