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2024 Iranian missile strikes in Iraq and Syria. On 15 January 2024, Iran carried out a series of aerial and drone strikes within Iraq and Syria, claiming that it had targeted the regional headquarters of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and several strongholds of terrorist groups in response to the Kerman bombings on 3 January, for which ...
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 ...
4 January – A US drone strike in Baghdad kills four Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba militants, including senior leader Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi. [1]5 January – Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani announces that the Iraqi government is beginning the process to remove the U.S.-led international military coalition from the country following U.S. drone strike on 4 January.
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 ...
Control of many U.S.-operated bases was transferred to the Iraqi government during the 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal. At the request of the Iraqi government in January 2024, [3] and amid rising regional tensions following the 2023 Israeli invasion of Gaza, the US and Iraq are set to begin negotiations to end US military presence in Iraq. [4]
The coalition ended its combat mission in Iraq in December 2021, but U.S. troops remain in the country in a training and advisory role. [28] [29]. In September 2024 the Department of Defense announced a "two-phase transition plan" for CJTF-OIR operations in Iraq.
Iraq's central bank must address continued risks of the misuse of dollars at Iraqi commercial banks to avoid new punitive measures targeting the country's financial sector, a top U.S. Treasury ...
The 2021 Erbil rocket attacks occurred when multiple rockets were launched against Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, Iraq. On 15 February, approximately fourteen rockets were fired from an area south of the city at around 21:30 local time. Three of the rockets directly hit the U.S.-led coalition base near Erbil International Airport ...