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On 30 August, United States Central Command reported that "[U.S.] forces and Iraqi Security Forces conducted a partnered raid in Western Iraq in the early hours of Aug. 29, resulting in the death of 15 ISIS operatives." [157] It was later confirmed that 7 U.S. troopers were injured during the operation. [158]
The Islamic State insurgency in Iraq is an ongoing low-intensity insurgency that began in 2017 after the Islamic State (IS) lost its territorial control in the War in Iraq, during which IS and allied White Flags fought the Iraqi military (largely backed by the United States, United Kingdom and other countries conducting airstrikes against IS ...
In addition to both Joe Biden and Leslie H. Gelb, [1] prominent supporters of the idea of a soft partition of Iraq have included Peter W. Galbraith, [2] Edward P. Joseph and Michael E. O'Hanlon [3] as well as Iraqi business mogul Khamis Khanjar, former Mosul Province governor Atheel al-Nujaifi, former Iraqi Finance Minister Rafaa al-Issawi, [4] and Ali Khedery (who was described in a 2016 New ...
The Biden administration has enacted a plan to reduce the population of a sprawling refugee camp near the Iraq-Syria border that has become an ISIS haven.
The climax of the campaign was an offensive in Northern Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS) that marked the beginning of the rapid territorial expansion by the group, prompting an American-led intervention. By the end of 2017, ISIS had lost all its territory in Iraq. Iran has also intervened and expanded its influence through sectarian Khomeinist ...
President Joe Biden on Sunday called the extraordinary fall of the Assad regime in Syria “a moment of risk” and “historic opportunity” while offering a blueprint for how the US plans to ...
Biden outlined several pillars of US policy toward Syria in the meantime, including further collaboration with its neighbors of Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Israel. Biden also vowed to help ...
On 30 July, the US carried out an airstrike near Babylon, Iraq, killing four members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units and a Houthi drone specialist [93] and injuring four others. Iraq condemned the strike saying the US-led military coalition committed a "heinous crime" by targeting security sites and said the attacks were a serious ...