The growing number of deals between the West and Iraq highlights growing Western involvement in Iraq's crucial energy sector. Following the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2023, Iran was able to firmly ...

A think tank warns that the lack of hardened aircraft shelters at US bases ... of Iraq’s [hardened air shelters].” A foe with superior air defences that could contest US Air Force operations ...

Al Mada, a left-leaning newspaper in Iraq, has characterized Kaabi’s comments as potentially threatening US troops at the Al Assad base in Iraq. In 2019, the pro-Iranian militias began to increase ...

During the war in Gaza, some of the groups that make up the PMF launched drone attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria. Mansour said that much of the anxiety in Iraq about the post-Assad future of ...

Rather, the final US-led mission in Iraq — Task Force Inherent Resolve, a 25-nation coalition set up in 2014 to counter the Islamic State — isn’t set to disband until sometime in our new year.

Russia is struggling to retain two military bases in Syria that have enabled it to project influence in the Middle East and Africa, according to a person in Moscow familiar with the situation.

They were also flying over military installations, including Joint Base Langley, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Vandenberg Space Force Base. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., asked Guillot about the ...

Iraq looms as a complex test for the new Trump administration. Will it be a hawk that pries loose a weakened Iran's grip or an isolationist that withdraws the remaining American troops, whose ...

MOGADISHU, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The Islamic State armed group attacked military bases in Somalia's northeastern Puntland state overnight with suicide car and motorbike bombs, but government forces ...

During the war in Gaza, some of the groups that make up the PMF launched drone attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria. They have not launched any attacks since the fall of Assad. Mansour said ...

Ukraine's fight has offered the West ... US Air Force, where he flew the F-16 in the US, Europe, the Pacific, and the Middle East. He had more than more than 300 hours of combat time in Kuwait ...

As one such source put it: “Iraq will be one unified country and by keeping the West out of energy deals there, the end of Western hegemony in the Middle East will become the decisive chapter in ...