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Illustrative photo of a US-made Reaper drone. (Dominique Faget/AFP)
July 19, 2019, 5:26 pm
Drone bombs base used by pro-Iranian militia in Iraq
Iranian and Hezbollah operatives said hurt or killed in strike; some reports say the site recently received shipment of ballistic missiles from Islamic Republic
By TOI staff and AFP
US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in the Loy Henderson Auditorium of the State Department in Washington on July 18, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
July 18, 2019, 9:10 pm
Pence says US sanctioning 2 Iraqi militia chiefs over Iran ties
But Treasury statement makes no mention of Rayan al-Kildani and Waad Qado’s Iranian links; 2 ex-governor’s also sanctioned
By AFP
In this illustrative photo from February 13, 2018, an Iraqi army soldier stands guard near a US- made Iraqi Air Force F-16 fighter jet at the Balad Air Base, 45 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
June 15, 2019, 1:41 pm
Mortar attack targets Iraqi base housing US troops
Iraqi military says no casualties in incident, which comes amid rising friction in the Middle East between United States and Iran
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
In this photo from July 1, 2016, members of the Iran-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq paramilitary group take part in a Quds Day march in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
June 12, 2019, 8:16 pm
US blacklists Iraqi firm accused of gunrunning for Iranian Guards
South Wealth Resources and two of its agents added to State Department’s list of global terrorists, are also accused of helping move funds on behalf of IRGC
By Agencies
Shiite militiamen carry a poster of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while stepping on a drawing of an Israeli flag during a Jerusalem Day rally in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, June 8, 2018. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
May 16, 2019, 7:33 pm
Armed pro-Iran groups in Iraq reject US claim of threat
Shiite militia leader accuses Washington of ‘trying to create an uproar in Iraq and the regions under any pretext’
By AFP
Members of an Iraqi clan shake hands as they meet inside a straw tent in the town of Mishkhab, south of Najaf on November 15, 2018. (Haidar Hamdani/AFP)
November 18, 2018, 1:26 pm
In Iraq, bloody tribal custom now classed as ‘terrorism’
The practice of ‘warning’ competing tribes via shootings, including in residential areas, threatens to undermine state agencies
By Salam Faraj
In this photo from January 19, 2018, billboards from Hezbollah's committee for the support of the Islamic resistance, that shows a Hezbollah fighter while holding the group's yellow banner and the Lebanon's national flag, are displayed on the Beirut airport highway, in southern Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 26, 2018, 11:50 am
US sanctions on Iran pressure Tehran’s regional allies
Hezbollah under increased financial strain as Trump puts the squeeze on terror group and its patron in effort to roll back Iranian regional influence
By Bassem Mroue and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
This file photo taken on January 8, 2016 shows Qais Al-Khazali, the head of the Iraqi Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, speaking at a press conference in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. (AFP Photo/Haidar Mohammed Ali)
August 30, 2018, 6:43 pm
Decade-old interrogation of Iraqi cleric shows Iran’s part in killing US troops
Recently declassified testimony of Shiite militia leader Qais al-Khazali details Iranian efforts to stoke 2007 attacks that killed or wounded hundreds of Americans
By TOI staff
Akram al-Kaabi, the head of Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba Akram, prays at the tomb of Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniya in Beirut's southern suburb on February 13, 2018. (AFP Photo/Anwar Amro)
February 13, 2018, 5:48 pm
Iraqi militia vows to back Hezbollah in war with Israel
Head of Iran-sponsored Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba says his organization will stand in a ‘single front’ with terror group against Jewish state
By AFP
In this Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 photo, Talib, the son of Iraqi sniper Ali Jayad al-Salhi, 65, a volunteer with Popular Mobilization Forces killed fighting Islamic State militants, poses with a weapon next to his father's poster in his home in Basra, Iraq. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
December 30, 2017, 2:57 pm
A ‘martyr’ sniper, who once fought against Israel, now a saint to Iraq’s Shiites
Ali Jayad al-Salhi, said to have killed nearly 400 Islamic State terrorists, emerges as a symbol of an almost holy force protecting the majority Muslim faction
By Hamza Hendawi and Sinan Salaheddin
Members of the Iranian-backed militia Golan Liberation Brigades appear in a video announcing the group's formation in March 2017. (YouTube)
November 27, 2017, 6:54 pm
Iran-backed militia in Syria says it’s ‘fully prepared’ to battle Israel
With its 10,000 men reportedly controlled by Quds force head Qassem Soleimani, recently formed ‘Golan Liberation Brigade’ says it will fight Jewish state if Damascus asks
By Dov Lieber
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