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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on while riding in a helicopter in Baghdad on December 13, 2024. ©AFP

Aqaba (Jordan) (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Iraq to crack down on Iranian-backed militias, seeing an ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arriving in Baghdad, in an unannounced stop on a regional tour to discuss Syria / ©AFP

On Syria tour, Blinken pledges to work with Iraq against IS jihadists

by Andrew M.

December 14, 2024

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(AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised Friday to work with Iraq to ensure no resurgence of the ...

A file picture from 2006 shows freed prisoners leaving Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad, in Iraq. ©AFP

US contractor ordered to pay $42 mn to Iraqis tortured at Abu Ghraib

by Thomas B.

November 12, 2024

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Washington (AFP) - A federal jury on Tuesday ordered a US defense contractor to pay $42 million in damages to ...

The Ain al-Assad base in western Iraq hosts American troops as well as personnel from the US-led coalition against the Islamic State jihadist group. ©AFP

Seven US personnel injured in attack on Iraq base

by Emma R.

August 6, 2024

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Baghdad (AFP) - A rocket attack on a base in Iraq wounded seven Americans, a US official said on Tuesday, ...

Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr, pictured at his home in the holy city of Najaf on July 20, 2023, retains a devoted following of millions among the country's majority Shiite Muslim population, and wields great influence over Iraqi politics / ©AFP

Influential Iraqi cleric backs US campus protests

by Anna M.

April 29, 2024

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(AFP) - Iraqi religious leader Moqtada Sadr on Saturday expressed his support for pro-Palestinian encampments at universities in the United ...

Influential Iraqi cleric backs US campus protests

by David P.

April 27, 2024

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(AFP) - Iraqi religious leader Moqtada Sadr on Saturday expressed his support for pro-Palestinian encampments at universities in the United ...

$US President Joe Biden (R) shakes hands with the Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on April 15, 2024. Sudani's trip to Washington, his first since taking office in October 2022, was originally expected to focus on the presence of US troops in Iraq as part of an anti-jihadist coalition. But the meeting will now be dominated by the fractious situation in the region after Iraq's neighbor Iran launched a massive missile and drone assault on Israel on April 13, 2024. . ©AFP$