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2 February – February 2024 American strikes in Iraq and Syria: The US launches retaliatory airstrikes targeting Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria, in response to an attack that killed three US troops in Jordan. [6] 7 February – Two Kata'ib Hezbollah commanders are assassinated in Baghdad by an American drone strike on their car. [7]
On 2 February 2024, the United States Air Force launched a series of airstrikes targeting Iran 's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-backed militia groups located in Iraq and Syria. The attack was launched in retaliation against a drone strike carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeting US troops in Jordan the week before ...
31 August: 2024 Anbar raid: In an operation conducted by the US special forces along with Iraqi security forces in western Iraq killed about 15 ISIS militants armed with grenades and explosive belts, the operation also led to the injury of 7 US personnel. [9] In August 2024, 9 civilians, 6 iraqi security personnel and 15 ISIS militants were killed.
They announced this decision was taken out of preventing "embarrassment" of the Iraqi government which has called for all resistance parties to de-escalate the situation. [99] On 1 April 2024, Abu Ali al-Askari, security chief of Kata'ib Hezbollah based in Iraq, said the organisation was prepared to arm "Islamic Resistance" in Jordan and is ...
An amendment to Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status law was officially proposed in the Iraqi parliament on Aug. 4. The draft law could theoretically make it legal for girls as young as nine years old to ...
BBC Report: Who's Who in Post-Saddam Iraq Archived 2005-03-24 at the Wayback Machine; Video Seminar on Iraq Coalition Politics Archived 2017-11-19 at the Wayback Machine: April 20, 2005, sponsored by the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois. M. Ismail Marcinkowski, Religion and Politics ...
The Iraqi conflict is a series of violent events that began with the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq and deposition of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, the most recent of which is the ISIS conflict, in which the Iraqi government declared victory in 2017. [ 4 ] In the ensuing 2003-11 Iraq War, the Multi-National Force (MNF–I) led by the ...
Between the parliamentary election in October 2021 and October 2022, there was a political crisis in Iraq, with members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq being unable to form a stable coalition government, or elect a new President. [5] Basic government services such as the civil service and military continued functioning, but the ...