Moments US aircraft, mostly CH-47 helicopters, took off from Al-Asad air base in western Iraq.. ..…

He assumed control of Islamic State of Iraq, al-Qaida linked group founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant killed in US airstrike Iraq in 2006. In the summer of 2014, his fighters swept across Syria and northern and western Iraq, eventually carving out self-styled..…

Iraqi security official confirmed U.S aircraft took off from Al-Asad air base in western Iraq, where Trump visited American forces December.. ..…

Dozens were killed BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived Baghdad on Wednesday as chaos swirled on Turkey- Syria and Iraqi leaders chafed over reports that United States may want to increase the number of troops based Iraq, at least temporarily.. Iraqi statement appeared to contradict..…

Pentagon announced that all of the nearly 1,000 troops withdrawing from Northern Syria were expected to move to Western Iraq.. ..…

Defense Secretary Mark Esper, that under the current plan, all U.S troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the military would continue to conduct operations against Islamic State group to prevent its in the region... Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that under the..…

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday night that all of the nearly 1,000 troops the US is pulling out of Syria are to be re-positioned in western Iraq to continue the campaign against Islamic State and to help defend Iraq.. ..…

Illustrative Popular Mobilization Forces members stand by burning truck Anbar, Iraq, August 25, 2019 .. airstrike was reported Sunday afternoon in western Iraq, targeting military base belonging to PMF — the third such attack on the in week and the in month... ..…

Mattis said Central Command, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wanted to leave some U.S forces Iraq. Iraq slipped back into escalating violence, and the scourge called ISIS rose like phoenix and swept across..…

Iraqi expert warned last month that members of Ba'ath party were collecting intel for the US Western Iraq, mainly through spying on Hashd al-Shaabi forces.. ... Al-Ali said that the number of Ba'ath party members had increased Western Iraq, warning that some had..…

The best to Islamic State northeastern Syria and western Iraq is new, Sunni state... ..…

The loss of western Iraq to ISIS led to the launching of Iraq War III in 2014-2017 to destroy ISIS caliphate and drive them out of western Iraq and Syria.. ..…

This was first attempted on Feb 2 when three Iranian missiles were caught pointing ready to fire at US Ain Al Asad air base in western Iraq near Syrian border.. ..…

Furthermore, Iranian-backed militias are expected to base themselves in western Iraq, awaiting orders to cross the border into Syria to target Jewish state. ..…

Changing the way seats are divvied up was criticised by the head of Binaa bloc and former head of Iraq's Integrity Commission Talal Zobai. United States is carving out new tributaries of in western Iraq in the form of military bases from Saladin to Anbar to insulate against..…

DEBKAfile's military sources report that these brigades, composed of Iraqi Shiite militias under Iranian officers, are posted in Syrian of Abu Kamal and Al Qaim western Iraq. ..…

Iraqi troops managed to Mosul's limits in the week for the time since June 2014, when the city fell to Daesh amid northern and western Iraq. ..…

No one or group has and Daesh Takfiri militants who captured parts of northern and western Iraq last year carry out regular attacks on security forces and civilians in Arab country.. ..…

Mosul fell to Daesh June 2014, shortly after Takfiri terrorists unleashed campaign of terror and destruction in the northern and western parts of Iraq.. ... Iraqi federal police stand guard outside heavily damaged in western Mosul, Iraq, March 8, 2017 Since February,..…

With Islamic State of Iraq and Syria taking over four more towns in western Iraq and along Syrian over the weekend, U.S policymakers are arguing over how grave threat the group poses to United States.. ..…

Al-Qaida has proved to be agile foe for U.S and Iraqi forces, the sprawling desert in western Iraq. ..…

His declaration, issued in nationally televised speech from Basra, came the week that U.S officials announced that they'd send another 1,500 troops from Kuwait to Anbar western Iraq in effort to wrest much of the province from the control of Sunni Muslim insurgents.. ..…

Opened its airspace to coalition planes hosts U.S troops carrying out search-and-rescue operations in western Iraq and staffing Patriot antimissile defense system.. ..…

To allay Israel's concerns, Bush has approved plan that calls for U.S forces to seize land in western Iraq and to destroy Scud missiles that could reach Israeli cities. ..…