By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military’s air strikes on Monday in Iraq aimed to deter Iran and Iran-backed militia groups from conducting or supporting attacks on United States personnel and facilities, President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The U.S. military carried out retaliatory air strikes on Monday in Iraq […]
STORY: Debris and burned out vehicles litter the ground in the Iraqi city of Hilla, where the U.S. military said it carried out air strikes against Iran-aligned militants on Monday. At least one serviceman was killed and 18 other people were wounded. Iraq’s government condemned the strikes as a “clear hostile act”. Two Iraqi security […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant hinted on Tuesday that the country had retaliated in Iraq, Yemen and Iran for attacks carried out against it as the war with Hamas-led Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip widens to other areas of the region. “We are in a multi-front war and are coming under […]
A drone attack by an Iran-affiliated terrorist group on a military base in Iraq early Monday morning left three U.S. service members wounded, the Pentagon said, and prompted retaliatory strikes. The attack on the Erbil Air Base was conducted by Kataib Hezbollah militants, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement. One of the three […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to carry out retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. servicemembers were injured in a drone attack in Northern Iraq. National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said one of the U.S. troops suffered critical injuries in the attack that occurred earlier Monday. The […]
By Phil Stewart (Reuters) -The U.S. military carried out retaliatory precision air strikes on Monday in Iraq after a one-way drone attack earlier in the day by Iran-aligned militants that left one U.S. service member in critical condition and wounded two other U.S. personnel, officials said. At President Joe Biden’s direction, the U.S. military carried […]
(Adds details on strikes, comments from U.S. officials) By Phil Stewart Dec 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. military carried out retaliatory precision air strikes on Monday in Iraq after a one-way drone attack earlier in the day by Iran-aligned militants that left one U.S. service member in critical condition and wounded two other U.S. personnel, […]