Iraq

France has named highly decorated elite infantryman Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion as the soldier killed in a drone strike overnight.

The British defence minister said “Putin’s hidden hand” is behind some Iranian tactics and capabilities.

CENTCOM has confirmed the death of four crewmembers of a downed refuelling jet that collided with another aircraft on Thursday.

A USAF KC-135 refuelling jet has crashed in Iraq after an “incident” with a second aircraft during Operation Epic Fury.

Three Iraqi migrants are being interrogated by Norwegian police over a blast that occurred at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that Iran’s military power is “being systematically degraded and annihilated” as Operation Epic Fury entered its tenth day, declaring the campaign will end “on our timeline and at our choosing” while forcefully pushing back against suggestions it could devolve into another prolonged Middle East conflict.

Assessing the first week of the U.S.–Israeli campaign against Iran, retired U.S. Army Major and urban warfare scholar John Spencer sharply rejected what he called the “lazy comparisons” critics have drawn between the operation and the Iraq War.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq categorically denied that its Peshmerga were preparing an invasion of Iran alongside the United States on Thursday, following rumors that some Iranian Kurdish groups are planning ground operations on what remains of the Iranian terror state.

Several media outlets in the U.S. and Israel have reported that the U.S. has asked the Iranian Kurds to join the fight against the regime in Tehran, potentially neutralizing security forces in western Iran and paving the way for another popular uprising.

 The Iranian terror regime struck seven different neighboring countries with missiles and drones following the launch of America’s “Operation Epic Fury,” reports as of Saturday night Washington, DC, time indicated.

A former senior Israeli commander warned that Iran could seek to arm its rapidly expanding ballistic missile arsenal — which already threatens Israel, U.S. bases, and allied interests across the region — with chemical or biological warheads, arguing that the “only viable option” may be a “massive” and “decisive” strike to bring down the regime as nuclear negotiations reach a critical juncture.

PM Starmer worked with a disgraced solicitor on a legal case that led to British soldiers being hounded through the courts, a report states.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that in order to make the Iranian regime fall, you would have to ramp up sanctions on the country, since “we’re still letting them sell oil to China,”

Former finance minister defects, warning “most civilised nation on earth” needs to crack down on “sickness” of festering radical Islamism.

President Donald Trump advocated for taking oil as a cost of liberating a country in the chapter “Take The Oil” of his 2011 bestselling book “Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again.”

Terrorist leaders in the Middle East have a tradition of using an alias, pseudonym, or “nom de guerre,” even when their true identities and given names are common knowledge.

Russian energy company Lukoil on Monday declared force majeure at West Qurna-2, a huge oilfield in Iraq. The Iraqi government has reportedly halted all payments to Lukoil due to U.S. sanctions imposed in October.

Elizabeth Tsurkov, 38, a Russian-Israeli and Princeton University graduate student, was released from captivity Tuesday evening after being held as a hostage by an Iran-backed militia in Iraq for more than two years.

A verdict was reached this week after the parents of a teenage girl in Lacey, Washington, allegedly targeted their teenage daughter in an “honor killing” attempt. 

Two parents in Washington are on trial for the attempted murder of their teenage daughter in a suspected “honor killing.”

French court sentenced seven Afghans and two Iraqis to jail over the fatal capsizing of a boat carrying would-be asylum seekers.

The Iraqi government said at least two of its radar systems were damaged by unidentified drones on Tuesday morning.

Several countries in the Middle East such as Kuwait and Bahrain announced they were closing their airspaces after reports that Iran had fired ballistic missiles at U.S. bases in Qatar and Iraq.

The Emirati newspaper the National reported on Thursday, citing anonymous sources, that Hezbollah is not planning to aid Iran.

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday announced the formation of a Middle East Task Force to support Americans abroad amid rising tensions in the region.

Iran’s Shiite proxies in Iraq are planning massive protests against Israel and demanding Baghdad prevent Israeli planes from passing through Iraqi airspace to attack Iran.

Pakistan on Saturday vowed to “stand behind Iran” against Israeli airstrikes, but indefinitely closed all of its border crossings with Iran on Monday.

Multiple Iraqi militias known to serve as proxies for the Iranian terror regime issued statements this weekend threatening the United States in response to the ongoing military campaign against Iranian leaders by the nation of Israel.

The U.S. is evacuating some diplomatic staff from its embassy in Iraq Wednesday, and allowing families and dependents of diplomats in Bahrain and other locations to return to the U.S., as negotiations with Iran stall. Breitbart News reported earlier Wednesday

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, President Donald Trump’s Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council in the White House, told Breitbart News exclusively about inside details of the operation to capture the mastermind of the Abbey Gate terrorist attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the summer of 2021.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a militant Kurdish separatist organization in Turkey, confirmed Monday it will disband after 40 years of conflict and over 40,000 deaths.

OPEC+ has reportedly begun to “unwind” voluntary production cuts, reducing oil prices to punish recalcitrant members, and perhaps to please President Donald Trump.

DELPHI, Greece — The Deputy Prime Minister of Kurdistan’s Regional Government in Iraq told Breitbart News exclusively that he and the Kurds look at President Donald Trump’s return to the White House as a historic opportunity for deeper business and economic ties between the United States and Kurdistan, as well Iraq as a whole.

A massive dust storm or “haboob” swept across central and southern Iraq on Tuesday, hospitalizing 3,747 people with breathing difficulties according to Iraqi health officials.

The leaders of some of the most powerful Iran-backed terror groups in Iraq, including the notorious Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH), are considering disarming, Reuters reported on Monday, in response to threats of airstrikes from President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump announced that the “fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq” had been killed, adding that United States’ “intrepid warfighters” had “hunted” him down.