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A rocket was fired into Iraq’s capital of Baghdad on Sunday evening, landing less than a mile from the U.S. Embassy, according to a report.

The British government has raised the threat level for military and diplomatic staff operating in a number of Gulf states including Iraq over tensions with Iran, in a move that follows the withdrawal of non-essential staff from Iraq by the U.S. government. 

Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako has accused powerful political parties in Iraq of “stealing” parliamentary seats that had been reserved for Christians, as an example of ongoing Christian persecution in the country.

A top Iranian president aide called U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton “the mustache” this week, declaring he is pushing American President Donald Trump into “war” with Iran.

Islamic terrorists, mainly the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), carried out more than 30 attacks in over ten countries during the first week of the ongoing holy month of Ramadan, killing at least 166 people and injuring 155 others, a Breitbart News count shows.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned Iran that it will face a “swift and decisive U.S. response” if it attacks American interests or directs its proxy forces to do so.

There are “thousands” of detainees in Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) detention camps that need to be dealt with, according to Pompeo.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday criticized U.S. policies in the Middle East as “destabilizing” and said they would ultimately harm the American people.

The grandparents of two children stranded with their French jihadist mother at a camp in Kurdish-held Syria filed a lawsuit at Europe’s top rights court Monday over France’s refusal to allow them home, lawyers said.

Behenna was convicted in 2009 of the unpremeditated murder of Mohamed, despite his claim that he acted in self-defense after Mohamed reached for his gun.

Multiple sources on Monday confirmed Washington deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier battle group to the Middle East after U.S. allies warned Iran was planning to attack Americans in the region, possibly through terrorist or Shiite militia proxies.

Pompeo said Monday the U.S. was doing all that it could to prevent attacks against U.S. forces stationed in Iraq by Iranian proxy forces.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is pushing back on Joe Biden’s claim that he is the most liberal candidate in the Democrat presidential field.

There is significant Islamist ideological overlap between the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and some of the world’s most murderous jihadi groups — the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda, Breitbart News learned from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP).

Radical Islamic terrorism remains the most acute security threat to the United Kingdom, according to the Director-General of MI5.

The number of Christians in the birthplace of their faith, the greater Middle East, continues to plummet months after the Islamic State, which waged a genocidal campaign against Christians, lost its “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria, Breitbart News learned from various experts, including an archbishop.

Some women who joined the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) as fighters, recruiters, and brides are trying to recreate the fallen caliphate from inside prison camps in northern Syria, the Associated Press (AP) reported this week.

Amarah (Iraq) — Two weeks into Mariam’s forced marriage to her cousin according to Iraqi tribal custom, she desperately doused herself in fuel, flicked on a lighter and attempted suicide by self-immolation.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill labeling U.S. forces in the Middle East as terrorist, a day after the U.S. terrorism designation for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard formally took effect, state TV reported.

A senior lawmaker in Iraq backed a motion Monday to ban some video games across the country, claiming they “threaten the social and moral peace” of the war-torn Middle Eastern country.

A propaganda video reportedly published online by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) on Sunday appears to show members of the jihadi group executing fellow Sunnis in Iraq for cooperating with local security forces.

Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday published the 2018 edition of its annual report on the death penalty. The report found a 31 percent decrease in executions compared to 2017, “the lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in the past decade.”

Iraq has offered to put on trial hundreds of accused foreign jihadists in Baghdad in exchange for millions of dollars, potentially solving a legal conundrum for Western governments but sparking rights concerns.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) continues to pose a menace in some of Iraq’s rural areas, exploiting a security void to extort taxes and terrorize the local population even after the recent demise of the terrorist group’s so-called caliphate, Kurdistan 24 learned from residents and officials on Tuesday.

Russia, considered one of the countries with the highest number of foreign fighters joining the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and other terrorist groups abroad, is trying to “reintegrate” those jihadis “into society, by way of shorter stints in jail and close monitoring,” the Washington Post reported this week.

U.S. and Syrian-Kurdish forces have successfully driven ISIS out of Syria, but 80,000 people from the caliphate remain in remote camp.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a progressive Democrat who is the co-chairman of the 2020 Democrat presidential campaign for Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he hopes a bipartisan coalition comes together to work with President Donald Trump to end a number of wars and U.S. military conflicts worldwide.

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities have arrested an Iraqi man suspected of carrying out unsuccessful attacks on trains in neighbouring Germany last year and sympathizing with the Islamic State group, officials in the two countries said Wednesday.

US-backed forces in Syria announced Saturday they have liberated the last pocket of territory held by the Islamic State in Syria, declaring victory over the extremist group and bringing an end to the caliphate it declared in 2014.

“The territorial caliphate has been eliminated in Syria,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said to reporters traveling with the president on Air Force One. 

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland was at an event in Washington this week to discuss his experience training Iraqi and Syrian militaries. But he ended up delivering a warning for the U.S. military: “Identity politics is a cancer.”

The Islamic State (ISIS) has mocked claims by U.S. military officials that the organization is on the brink of total collapse, while also calling on its followers to act in retaliation for the massacre at a mosque in New Zealand that took place last weekend.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is actively pressuring the Iraqi government to stop embracing Baghdad-sanctioned Shiite militia fighters and politicians backed by Iran who are hell-bent on using their unprecedented political to undermine American interests in the region on behalf of Tehran.

Kristina Arriaga, president of the Oxford Society for Law and Religion, spoke this week about war’s devastating impacts on women.

A group of Iraqi Yazidis rallied outside the White House over the weekend to urge U.S. President Donald Tump’s administration to help them rescue the estimated 3,000 Yazidis who remain missing or in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) captivity and to protect their homeland in Iraq.

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that Turkey and Iran carried out a joint operation against Kurdish separatist militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), with full results yet to be announced. The operation was apparently conducted in the Qandil mountains of Iraq’s Irbil province, about 25 miles from the Turkish border.