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Baghdad Tightens Its Grip on Autonomous Kurdistan

par This Is Beirut, 06/04 12:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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"Political revenge" or a return to control? Iraq's federal government is reviewing its relations with autonomous Kurdistan and tightening its grip on it. Iraq is using a period of relative stability to assert more control over the oil-rich autonomous Kurdistan region, which has long had fraught relations with federal authorities, analysts and ...

A Country on the Brink of Pseudo-Wars

par Johnny Kortbawi, 16/04 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The state of utter confusion the Lebanese were in last Saturday was not a first. In fact, since the birth of the State of Israel in 1948, the entire region has become prone to security threats and proxy wars between the great powers that have a direct impact on Lebanon. However, waiting for the Iranian drones, and then the constant expectation of ...

US and Iraq Agree to Discuss US Coalition Withdrawal

par This Is Beirut, 16/04 10:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The US President and Iraqi Prime Minister agreed on Monday to work toward the withdrawal of the US-led coalition in Iraq. US President Joe Biden and Iraq's Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday that they would keep working towards the withdrawal of a US-led anti-jihadist coalition in the country. Their meeting at the White House ...

Deadly Blast at Hashed Al-Shaabi Military Base in Iraq

par This Is Beirut, 20/04 10:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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One person was killed and eight wounded in an overnight explosion at an Iraqi military base housing Hashed al-Shaabi, a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, officials said Saturday. The explosion hit the Kalsu military base in Babylon province south of Baghdad, where Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, or Hashed al-Shaabi, is stationed. It ...

Editorial — The Unspoken War

par Michel Touma, 20/04 13:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The prevailing impression from the unfolding “vicissitudes” in Isfahan at the break of dawn on Friday was that Israelis and Iranians were almost ashamed of engaging in direct, face-to-face warfare… In their quest for moral justification, they deploy startling theatrics or unusual military-media acrobatics. Their objective: to minimize ...

First Attack on US-base in Syria Since January

par This Is Beirut, 22/04 10:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Rockets have been fired at US forces in Syria on Sunday, in the latest rocket attack targeting the US coalition. Rockets were fired late Sunday from northern Iraq at a military base in Syria housing a US-led coalition, according to Iraqi security forces. The anti-jihadist coalition said one of its fighter jets in Iraq had "destroyed a launcher ...

Security, Water, and Oil Dominate Erdogan's Talks in Iraq

par This Is Beirut, 23/04 00:06 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, embarked on his first state visit to neighboring Iraq in years, with discussions centered around water, oil, and regional security matters. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in neighboring Iraq on Monday for his first state visit there in years, with water, oil, and regional security ...

UAE Firm Suspends Iraq Operations After Mysterious Drone Attack

par This Is Beirut, 29/04 11:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Emirati-owned Dana Gas has suspended operations at a gas complex in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region after a drone strike that killed four people, it said on Monday. The Khor Mor complex owned by the United Arab Emirates firm has been hit several times in recent years, but Friday's attack was the first deadly incident. Four workers died and ...

Israel Strikes a Pro-Iran Iraqi Group in Syria

par This Is Beirut, 09/05 12:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israeli strikes on Syria early Thursday targeted facilities belonging to Iraq's Al-Nujaba armed movement, a war monitor and the pro-Iran group said, with Damascus saying an unidentified building was attacked. Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the outbreak of the civil war in its northern neighbor in 2011, mainly against ...

Iraq Announces Seizure of 2.5 Million Captagon Pills

par This Is Beirut, 28/05 16:43 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iraqi authorities announced the seizure of 2.5 million captagon pills Tuesday, as the country grapples with a ballooning trade in the banned stimulant. Authorities in Iraq -- a key conduit for the amphetamine-type drug -- regularly announce large hauls of captagon, much of it trafficked across the porous 600-kilometer (370-mile) border with ...

Gaza Fighting Continues, as Israel Reject UN War Crime Inquiry

par This Is Beirut, 13/06 20:54 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Fighting raged in Gaza Thursday, as Israel rejected a UN independent inquiry report that concluded both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes. Iraq warned of escalation on the Lebanese border as fighting continues. Israeli helicopters struck Gaza's Rafah Thursday, residents said, with Hamas militants reporting street battles in the southern city ...

Stray Bullets Reap Victims in Iraq Amid Widespread Arms Possession

par This Is Beirut, 14/06 15:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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At weddings, football matches and other special events, some Iraqi men like to fire salvos of celebratory gunfire into the sky, worrying little about where the bullets might fall. For some Iraqis, the tradition has been devastating, as have random bullets from sporadic gun battles in a society still awash with weapons after decades of war and ...

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