(by Andrea Pinto) We have doubled the precision missiles aimed at Israel, the head of Hezbollah in Lebanon told pro-Hezbollah television. The interview lasted four hours and many argue that it was released to cheer up the group's followers after the most disastrous year for Lebanon since the civil war. [...]
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There was mounting tension in Iraq over the weekend as the Baghdad government reported arresting over a dozen members of a powerful Iranian-backed Shiite militia. It is the first time that the Shia-led Iraqi government has taken steps to reduce the growing power of these [...]
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Taylor Adam on the WP explains in detail what is happening in Iraq between the US and Iran and why Iraq is important to the whole region. Tensions between the United States and Iran have increased throughout 2019, but on New Year's Eve, they took on a surge that saw the US embassy [...]
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About 1.000 Islamic State fighters have returned to Iraq in recent months and are waging a low-level uprising that threatens to destabilize rural areas and could be the harbinger of a new war, an expert warned. Thousands of fighters belonging to the Islamic State - also known as the Islamic State of Iraq [...]
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The Shiite militias that fought in the war against the Islamic State are now "committed to mafia-like activities" in the former strongholds of the Islamic State. Iraqi Sunnis fear another Islamic uprising, according to an article published in the Washington Post. In 2014, the rapid rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - ISIS, in [...]
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Yemeni militias backed by Saudi Arabia, the United States and the UAE would be paying al-Qaeda's allied factions to refrain from fighting and recruiting al-Qaeda members to fight Shia rebels. Since 2015, when the civil war broke out in Yemen, the United States, together with its Arab allies, the Emirates [...]
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In Iraq, after the disputed elections of 12 May, the list of Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr, who has a narrow majority, announced that he had made an alliance with the Shiite group Al Fatah, considered close to Iran. Sadr's Sayeroun list, which also includes the Communist Party and Al Fatah's, can count on 101 parliamentary seats, still [...]
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Iraq goes to vote. Five months after declaring victory over the caliphate, Iraq returns to the polls. Forecasts see the Shiites winning, even if divided, the Kurds in difficulty while the Sunnis paralyzed. It is the fourth time that the country has gone to the polls, since the regime of Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003 [...]
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According to the Nova agency, one dead and three wounded among the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU, Iraqi militias with a Shiite majority) are the toll of an attack by the Islamic State against a checkpoint of the PMU in the governorate of Kirkuk . The news comes from Iraqi security sources. The clash in [...]
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Harsh fighting is underway in northern Iraq just hours after the launch of the ground military offensive to free the Tal Afar district, west of Mosul, from the yoke of the Islamic State. Through the "Amaq" news agency, the self-styled "caliphate" claims to have destroyed a Humvee and a Cougar Mrap of the Popular Mobilization Units (Pmu, [...]
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