evening to Baghdad but most of the passengers disembarked at Arbil. Some hid their faces, so as not

Monday by Kataeb Hezbollah and affiliated groups on Arbil Air Base, Austin said.... It wounded three US

WASHINGTON( AFP)-The Pentagon announced Sunday( June 27) it had conducted targeted air strikes against" facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups" on the Iraq-Syria border, which it said were authorised by President Joe Biden following ongoing attacks on US interests." At President Biden's direction, US military forces earlier this evening conducted defensive precision air strikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region," Pentagon spokesman John

Five oil fields in the region have been hit in the space of a week. Long plagued by conflict, Iraq frequently experiences such attacks, often linked to regional proxy struggles between Iran and the United States and its ally Israel.... The regional natural resources ministry said the latest attacks had caused “ significant damage ”, and condemned them as acts of “ terrorism ”.... At 7: 14am, another attack targeted an oil field operated by the US firm Hunt Oil in Duhok province, without causin

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi vowed revenge against Donald Trump if the former US president is not tried over the killing of Qasem Soleimani, as Tehran marked two years since the commander's death.“ The aggressor and the main assassin, the then president of the United States, must face justice and retribution, ” Raisi said.“ It would be ok if the trial of Trump,( former secretary of State Mike) Pompeo and other criminals was held in a fair court where their horrible crimes were addressed and th

The sheikh said he was deceived by the conference organisers and did not write the speech that he gave. The day of the conference, The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece under his name calling for normalisation with Israel and praising the UAE for doing so.... " We are doing everything we can to help them." Mr Al-Hardan declined to be interviewed.... He is a fellow at the Al Mesbar Studies and Research Centre, a think tank in Dubai, UAE, that researches political and social movemen