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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Ali Choukeir

The US has charged that Muhammad Kawtharani has "taken over some of the political coordination of Iran-aligned paramilitary groups" formerly organized by Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated in an American strike on January 3, 2020.
April 21, 2020, 12:55 pm
A new Soleimani? US zeroes in on shadowy Hezbollah power broker in Iraq
Washington offers $10 million reward for information on Muhammad Kawtharani, whom it charges has taken over part of the role of assassinated Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani
By Ali Choukeir
The USS Abraham Lincoln sails south in the Suez canal near Ismailia toward the Persian Gulf, May 9, 2019. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)
May 19, 2019, 1:19 am
War talk grips Iraq as storied US carrier returns to Gulf
Iraqis convinced conflict looms between Washington and Tehran as the USS Abraham Lincoln, whose warplanes bombed Iraq in 2003, returns to region and tensions spiral
By Ali Choukeir
Men suspected of being Islamic State fighters are searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after leaving the Islamic State's last holdout of Baghouz in Syria's northern Deir Ezzor province, February 22, 2019. (Bulent Kilic/AFP)
February 25, 2019, 11:42 pm
Iraq saves France from thorny repatriations of Islamic State jihadists
French citizens accused of terrorism transferred to Baghdad for trial as Paris rocked with controversy over its nationals fleeing collapsing ‘caliphate’
By Ali Choukeir
Iraqi Kurds arrive at a polling station to cast their votes in the Kurdish independence referendum in the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, on September 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Marwan Ibrahim)
September 25, 2017, 5:33 pm
Kirkuk Kurds hail independence vote, but Arabs, Turkmen wary
Kurdish residents of oil-rich city turn out in force for independence referendum as Baghdad vows to take ‘necessary measures’ over vote
By Ali Choukeir
Fighters from the Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces flash the victory sign as they ride in a pickup truck during the advance in the the Islamic State held city of Tal Afar on August 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
August 26, 2017, 2:02 pm
Iraqi forces recapture Tal Afar center from Islamic State
General in charge of operation to retake jihadist-held city says troops clashing with final pockets of resistance
By Ali Choukeir and Valerie LEROUX
Smoke billowing from Mosul's Old City on June 18, 2017, during the ongoing offensive by Iraqi forces to retake the last district still held by the Islamic State group. (AFP Photo/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
June 22, 2017, 4:01 am
Islamic State blows up Mosul mosque where al-Baghdadi became ‘caliph’
‘Iraq’s Tower of Pisa’ had stood for over 840 years; PM al-Abadi says destruction of iconic site ‘an official declaration of defeat’ by retreating jihadist group
By Jean-Marc Mojon and Ali Choukeir
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