18 days on, Rajasthan family awaits mortal remains of kin from Iraq
World | February 15, 2020 22:32 ISTA Jhunjhunu family is running from pillar to post to bring back the body of their relative who died in Iraq's capital Baghdad over two weeks ago.
A Jhunjhunu family is running from pillar to post to bring back the body of their relative who died in Iraq's capital Baghdad over two weeks ago.
A rocket hit a military base in Iraq's province of Kirkuk on Thursday. As per local media reports, the military base that houses US troops was hit in the evening.
The attack came a week after thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Baghdad upon the request of the prominent Shia leader Moqtada al-Sadr, in which he called for a scheduled withdrawal of US troops from Iraq through peaceful means.
After Pentagon said that almost 50 US servicemen suffered brain injuries in Iran rocket strike earlier in January, it belies President Donald Trump’s initial claim that no Americans were harmed.
Abu Abdul Bari, an ISIS hate preacher was caught off guard when the Iraqi forces raided a suspected location in Mosul. Having caught him alive, the Iraqi military had a tough task at hand to transport the 254-kilogram ISIS sympathetic. The troops deployed flatbed to carry the terrorist.
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has said that he shares President Donald Trump's views that additional attacks by Iran on US embassies was a likely situation but there was no specific evidence that it was plotting an attack on four US embassies.
Iraq's Ambassador to Iran Saad Jawad Qandil on Monday said that the Gulf nation could purchase the Russian S-300 defence system. This comes as Iraq has seen several aerial attacks in the last few days.
US President Trump said his National Security Adviser suggested that sanctions and protests have Iran “choked off”, will force them to negotiate, amid escalating tensions with Tehran following the killing of Qasem Soleimani in a US airstrike and Iran launching missile attacks at Iraqi airbase.
Balad air base in Iraq came under rocket attack once again on Sunday, January 13. As per sources, 4 Iraqi soldiers were injured as the base hosting US soldiers came under attack late Sunday night. The nature of the attack is yet unknown with different sources claiming it was a mortar bomb/rocket attack.
Four rockets have hit Balad airbase in Iraq that hosts US troops. Four troops are reportedly injured. As per Reuters, the attack involves mortar shelling. The news agency said that mortar bombs fell on the airbase's runway. The airbase is located 80 km north of Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday had a telephonic conversation with his counterparts from Iraq and Bahrain as part of its diplomatic outreach in the context of the evolving situation in the Middle East.
US and British top leaderships on Thursday claimed that it was 'highly likely' that Iran shot down the civilian Ukrainian jetliner that crashed after taking off from Tehran airport on Tuesday. The officials have said that there is a major possibility that Iran downed the aircraft by mistake and blamed it on engine failure to cover its tracks.
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It is worth noting that Iran has a unique advantage in Middle East/West Asia, due to its geographical position. USA is engaged in long-drawn wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Afghanistan has seen a major resurgence of Taliban and other terrorist outfits whom the US had vowed to eliminate after 9-11 terror attacks in 2001.
Iran missile strikes on Al-Assad Air Base in Iraq is not just an attack on a major military complex. Iran may have wanted to send signal globally that it is in a mood to retaliate after Qasem Soleimani's death in US drone strike.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said a slap was delivered last night after Iran targeted US bases in Iraq taking revenge over the killing of their top general Qasem Soleimani in a US airstrike.
According to Iran, Instagram has been deleting accounts or removing relevant content put up by several Iranians on the killing of top Irani General in a US airstrike.
The US aviation authority has prohibited its civil flight operators from using the airspace over Iraq, Iran and the Gulf, hours after Iran fired over a dozen ballistic missiles targeting at least two American bases in response to the killing of its General Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike.
US President Donald Trump took to Twitter and said 'All is Well' after Iran targeted Iraqi bases housing US troops in retaliation to the killing of its top general Qasem Soleimani in a US airstrike.
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