The US Embassy in Baghdad announced that the State Department has ordered its staff in Baghdad and Erbil to leave Iraq for security and Coronavirus reason.
Media sources reported racket attacks on the Green Zone of Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad in which three Katyusha rockets hit the nearby area of the US Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone on Thursday morning.
Following the US airstrike on Iraqi military bases, the Foreign Ministry of the country summoned the US and British ambassadors and declared the government's protest against the violation of Iraqi national sovereignty.
Baghdad (IP) - Following the US air raid to the positions of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a large number of Iraqi security forces were deployed near the US embassy in Baghdad.
An Iraqi MP has accused the US government of interfering in the election of the Iraq’s Prime Minister.
Dozens of rockets have hit a base near Baghdad that houses US personnel, the Iraqi army has reported. It’s not yet clear whether the attack on the al-Taji base resulted in any casualties.
Middle East (IP)- Some 800 soldiers from an 82nd Airborne Division brigade that rapidly deployed into the Middle East early this year amid heightening tensions with Iran returned to Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Thursday.
The area near the US embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, reportedly came under rocket fire, and several blasts have been heard at the Green Zone, hosting diplomatic compounds and the US-led coalition base.
Millions of young and old Iraqis, men and women, throng the streets of Baghdad, chanting slogans in support of their country's independence and freedom, and calling for an end to US military presence in Iraq.
Millions of Iraqis are expected to take part in a mass rally against the US military presence in their homeland on Friday amid a fresh wave of public anger triggered by a recent meeting between Iraqi President Barham Salih and his American counterpart, Donald Trump.