Iraq

Islam critic Salwan Momika shot dead just hours before he was due in court for the Swedish govt’s prosecution of him for burning Qurans.

Germany’s federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes.

The year 2024 was not a good one for Iran, which saw much of its proxy army across the Middle East decimated by Israel, its puppet dictator Bashar Assad ousted in Syria, and its old enemy Donald Trump return to the White House.

Iraqi parliamentarian Habib Al-Halawi, leader of the Al-Sadiqoon parliamentary bloc in Iraq, declared in a recent interview that his forces would kill Americans “like we killed this fly,” while invoking the deaths of key figures as a rallying cry for jihad and martyrdom.

U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking said on Thursday that leaders of the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen have decided to keep lower profiles following the devastation of Iran’s other regional proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, at the hands of Israel, followed by the overthrow of Iran’s client Bashar Assad in Syria by a Sunni Islamist insurgency.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), who is President-Elect Donald Trump’s pick to be national security adviser, reacted to the Biden administration granting a sanctions waiver on Iran by stating that “we

The foreign minister of Iran traveled to Baghdad on Friday for a meeting to discuss, alongside his Iraqi and Syrian counterparts, how to address the surging campaign by Sunni jihadists to overthrow Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Hundreds of Iran-backed Shiite militia fighters from Iraq have reportedly crossed the border into Syria to help dictator Bashar Assad battle a surprise offensive from Islamist insurgents in Aleppo.

In a superficial world where pro athletes and Hollywood actors are sometimes considered heroes, Veterans Day exists to remind us that real heroes wore combat uniforms and kept the USA free.

Former President Donald Trump promised a Gold Star parent that during his “first week” in office, he would establish a “commission” to find answers regarding his son’s death.

An Iran-backed Shiite militia in Iraq launched two drones toward Israel on Friday, one of which was not detected and killed two soldiers at a military base while injuring others. The other drone was detected, intercepted, and destroyed.

Tehran held a “symbolic” funeral with a large crowd on Friday for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike last week, ending three decades of terrorist plotting and authoritarian rule.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Wednesday that it has rescued a 21-year-old Yazidi woman named Fawzia Amin Sido from captivity by the terrorists of Hamas.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Thursday that soldiers had rescued a Yazidi woman who had been kidnapped and enslaved by ISIS in Iraq before being trafficked to a Hamas terrorist in Gaza.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani warned the United Nations in his General Assembly address on Thursday that the world faces a new wave of “occupation,” “terrorism,” and flagrant violations of international law, notably omitting mention of the Iran-backed jihadist terror groups wreaking havoc in his country and region.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian used his address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday to attack Israel on behalf of Iran’s terrorist clients in Hamas – an unsurprising, but perhaps slightly disappointing, tirade from an Iranian second-in-command who billed himself as a more compassionate, reformist leader.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani told Bloomberg News in an interview published Tuesday that he believes there “is no need” for troops from America or other members of the coalition against the Islamic State to remain in the country, suggesting he will soon expel them.

Iran is bolstering its influence in Iraq by moving in leaders of its proxy terrorist organizations Hamas and the Yemeni Houthi movement, the left-wing New York Times reported on Sunday — days after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian concluded a visit to the neighboring country.

A deployed U.S. Army soldier delivered a brutal fact check to Vice President Kamala Harris in a video that has now gone viral.

Iraqi officials stated they are finalizing an effort to remove nearly all U.S. troops following the collapse of the Islamic State.

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed Tuesday during a debate with former President Donald Trump that there were currently no active-duty troops in any combat zone anywhere around the world for the first time this century.

Mohammed and Muhammed: AfD gets list of all known 2023 gang rape suspects names, claiming it shows the vast majority are of migrant heritage.

The Greek-flagged oil tanker MV Sounion was left adrift and burning in the Red Sea after attacks from the Houthi terrorists of Yemen.

JD Vance mocked Tim Walz for lying about his military service, saying the closest he came to combat was when he let Minneapolis burn.

The Minnesota National Guard revealed earlier this week that Gov. Tim Walz, the 2024 vice presidential candidate, had his rank reduced to master sergeant a day before he retired, which means that he never retired as a command sergeant major as he has claimed numerous times in political ads and in political settings.

Former commander retired Army Command Sergeant Major Doug Julin confirmed Friday that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, now Democrat vice presidential candidate, knew months in advance he would deploy to Iraq well before choosing to retire and miss the deployment.

Organizers have planned protests in at least seven provinces on Thursday throughout Iraq in response to the introduction of amendments to a core family legal framework that could legalize child marriages, deprive widows of their inheritance, and facilitate sex slavery.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Wednesday that Democrat Vice Presidential Nominee Tim Walz, who is accused of Stolen Valor, “let his troops go to war” in Iraq “without him.”

Democrat Presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a football comparison between her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Walz has listed on his official biography a higher military rank than the one he ultimately retired with, drawing criticism from some veterans and accusations of stolen valor.

Multiple reports on Monday indicated that United States personnel came under incoming rocket fire at the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq.

Iran has “domination” over American interests in the region and can strike the U.S. in “less than half a day,” according to a senior Iranian Ayatollah who called for “blood vengeance” against the United States for numerous “American crimes,” following Hamas terrorist leader Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination in the heart of Tehran last week.

U.S. forces struck a base near Baghdad used by Iran-backed Shiite militias that were preparing to launch drones against American troops.

The Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq setenced an unnamed wife of former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death.

Masoud Pezeshkian, the “moderate” and “reformist” winner of Iran’s special election, vowed to continue supporting terrorism against Israel.