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Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq, December 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)
May 8, 2021, 12:11 pm
Drone attacks Iraqi base hosting US troops, damaging hanger; no casualties
Strike comes days after 2 rockets hit unoccupied part of Ain al-Asad airbase; no claim of responsibility
By Agencies
Raslan Haddad, the presenter of the local TV prank show, Tannab Raslan, stands in front of a map of Iraq during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May. 5, 2021. (AP/Hadi Mizban)
May 6, 2021, 8:28 pm
Iraqi prank TV show depicting IS attacks taken off air
Media regulator cancels reality production that stages fake ambushes by Islamic State terrorists and films participants’ reactions with hidden cameras
By SAMYA KULLAB
Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq, December 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)
May 4, 2021, 6:10 pm
3rd rocket attack in 3 days targets US forces in Iraq
2 rockets fall on unoccupied part of Ain al-Asad airbase without causing damage or casualties, Iraqi army says; none of strikes during US delegation’s visit have been claimed
By AFP
Illustrative: A US Air Force honor guard shooting party practices before a ceremony marking Veterans Day, November 11, 2010, at Joint Base Balad, north of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo/File)
May 2, 2021, 11:05 pm
Two rockets target Baghdad airport base housing US troops
One of the projectiles is intercepted; no immediate claim of responsibility or report of casualties
By AFP
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein, right, meets with visiting Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in Baghdad, Iraq, April 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
April 27, 2021, 5:38 pm
Iran’s Zarif praises ‘vital’ Iraqi efforts to broker Saudi Arabia rapprochement
Visiting Baghdad on the back of de-escalation talks with Riyadh, top Iranian diplomat says he hopes for ‘more negotiations and understandings in the region’
By AP
Mourners take the body of Khudair Ali, a coronavirus patient who died in a hospital fire, during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq on April 25, 2021. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)
April 25, 2021, 4:28 pm
Iraqis blame hospital fire on mismanagement as health minister suspended
Death of over 80 people in a Baghdad COVID-19 hospital blaze seen as further proof of deadly consequences of corruption
By Sarah Benhaida and Ammar Karim
First responders work the scene of a fire at a hospital in Baghdad on April 24, 2021. (AP Photo)
April 25, 2021, 1:47 pm
Fury in Iraq as fire at Baghdad COVID hospital kills at least 82, wounds 110
Medical sources say blaze that ripped through Ibn al-Khatib medical center started with explosion caused by ‘a fault in the storage of oxygen cylinders’
By Ammar Karim and Salam Faraj
FILE: A member of the Iraqi SWAT team stands guard as security forces and others gather next to a US-made F-16 fighter jet during the delivery ceremony at Balad air base, Iraq, July 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
April 18, 2021, 11:15 pm
Five injured as rockets hit Iraqi air base housing Americans
2 foreign contractors, 3 Iraqi soldiers wounded in barrage at military site north of Baghdad
By Mahmoud Saleh
US soldiers stand at a site of Iranian bombing at Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar, Iraq on January 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Qassim Abdul-Zahra)
April 15, 2021, 1:53 am
Drone targets US troops stationed at Iraqi Kurdistan airport
Kurdish interior ministry says no one hurt at Arbil; no claim of responsibility, but pro-Iran group blamed for previous assault hails attack
By AFP
Pro-Iranian militiamen and their supporters chant slogans against the US in front of the US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, January 1, 2020. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)
April 7, 2021, 11:37 pm
Iraqi PM demands Iran restrain militias ahead of US talks
Mustafa al-Kadhimi sends letter to Tehran threatening to ‘announce clearly who backs these groups,’ as Iranian-backed factions press for end to American troop presence
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and SAMYA KULLAB
A man shouts slogans in front of burning tires and garbage containers during a protest against the increase in prices of consumer goods and the crash of the local currency, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
April 3, 2021, 6:09 am
Lebanon to swap medical expertise for Iraqi oil
Beirut to send experts, specialized teams to Iraq as it grapples with electricity crisis; Iraqi COVID cases soar as country copes with chronic lack of drugs, medical care
By AFP
This picture taken on March 24, 2021 shows a view of a close-up view of a marker on a grave at the Habibiya Jewish cemetery in Iraq's capital Baghdad (Sabah ARAR / AFP)
March 28, 2021, 6:36 am
On Passover 2021, Iraq’s Jewish community dwindles to fewer than five
A community that once thrived is all but gone; Baghdad’s lone synagogue only opens occasionally and has no rabbis
By Salam Faraj and Sarah Benhaida
Iraqi Jewish doctor Thafer Eliyahu. (Courtesy)
March 17, 2021, 8:11 am
Iraq’s last Jewish doctor, who treated the poor for free, dies in Baghdad
Dr. Thafer Eliyahu, 61, continued to receive patients even when country was being bombed in 2003 Gulf War
By TOI staff
Damage from rockets that landed in a civilian area near the Al-Balad military base north of Baghdad on March 15, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)
March 15, 2021, 10:40 pm
7 rockets target Iraq base housing US troops; 5 hit nearby village
No injuries in the latest in series of attacks Washington has blamed on Iranian-backed militias; shell impact damages home
By AFP
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon visit at a restaurant in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. Photo by a Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90
March 7, 2021, 2:29 pm
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