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The suspect accused of firing gunshots outside of an Albany, New York synagogue is an immigrant to the United States from Iraq and said, “Free Palestine” when police officers arrested him.

The U.S. conducted airstrikes against facilities used by an Iran-backed militia in Iraq after a ballistic missile attack on U.S. forces.

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) stated that the Biden administration’s $10 billion sanctions waiver to allow Iraq to receive Iranian energy will free up money for terrorist activities by Iran and is completely

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) argued the U.S. should decrease its military and security presence in Syria and Iraq “in part because we end up being targets for a lot of these militia groups.

Nechirvan Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, on Tuesday demanded Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani put an end to Iran-backed Shiite militia attacks on bases housing U.S. personnel.

Iran-backed Shiite militia forces in Iraq on Tuesday claimed credit for launching explosive-laden drones at bases housing U.S. forces.

The Pentagon on Friday evening confirmed there were no casualties resulting from U.S. strikes in Syria in response to nearly two dozen attacks against American troops based in Iraq and Syria.

Twenty-one American forces were injured in drone attacks against U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria in just two days last week, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

CENTCOM reports two dozen U.S. personnel were injured during drone attacks by Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq and Syria last week.

The Pentagon is concerned about an escalation of attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East in the days ahead, officials said, as Israel prepares a ground invasion into the Gaza Strip in response to the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas.

The White House accused Iran of “actively facilitating” attacks by Shiite militia groups against U.S. positions in Iraq and Syria.

CENTCOM denied claims by Iran-backed Shiite militia groups that they killed American forces with rocket and drone attacks.

Two military bases in Iraq that host U.S. and coalition forces were attacked with rockets and drones on Thursday, in an apparent effort by Iran-controlled Shiite militias to make good on their threats to attack American interests if the U.S. continues to support Israel against the terrorists of Hamas.

Angry mobs throughout the Middle East and North Africa targeted Israeli, American, French, and other Western embassies on Tuesday night.

Convert who was convicted in Turkey of being part of the Islamic State group pleaded guilty at a UK court Monday to having a firearm.

An Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militia has threatened to attack American bases in Iraq if the U.S. aids Israel against the terrorists of Hamas.

Mazen Ahmed, director of investments and remittances at the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), said on Thursday that cash withdrawals and transactions using U.S. dollars will be banned effective January 1, 2024.

Iraqi Christian leaders on Monday demanded an international investigation into a fire that killed 113 people at a wedding in a predominantly Christian town last week.

The government of Turkey announced a bombing campaign on Sunday consisting of airstrikes on 20 alleged strategic positions within the borders of Iraq, a response to a suicide attack against the Turkish General Directorate of Security in Ankara this weekend.

Violent protests met a Qur’an burning demonstration in Sweden’s multicultural border city of Malmo on Sunday, leading to a night of riots.

Officials said they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine young men and one woman.

A German woman has been jailed for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun.

Officials in Baghdad shut down all of the city’s LED advertising screens on Saturday evening after a hacker posted a pornographic video on one of them. The hacked screen was highly visible in a major traffic area of the city, so social media was quickly flooded with clips of the “immoral scenes” on display.

Four men are being held by French authorities on suspicion of involvement in the fatal smuggler boat crossing to England that killed six.

Swedes abroad and businesses linked to Sweden “should observe increased vigilance and caution,” following protests in Muslim world.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” former Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), who also served as Secretary of the Army in the Obama administration, stated that the families of the American troops killed at the Kabul airport

The Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC) on Tuesday banned the term “homosexuality,” instead requiring all media organizations and social media platforms to use “sexual deviance.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian arrived in Japan on Monday with a somewhat enigmatic agenda that reportedly includes a meeting with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.

Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone following a Qur’an burning in Copenhagen.

Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani expelled the Swedish ambassador on Wednesday, even as a mob of protesters waving photos of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire.

The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday called for international laws to punish burning the Quran, following a demonstration in Sweden last week in which a man burned a copy of the Muslim holy book on the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday.

Thousands of Muslims protested in major cities in Iraq on Friday, condemning the burning of a Qur’an during a protest in Sweden.

Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin is losing the war in Iraq, even as Ukraine battles to defend its eastern border from Russian aggression.

The Long War Journal reported last week that two senior officials from the Biden State Department, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf, attended a conference in Iraq that was headlined by a known terrorist whose militias have killed hundreds of American soldiers. 

The Washington Post on Sunday described classified U.S. intelligence documents included in the “Discord Leaks” – the trove of documents exposed by 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard Airman Jack Teixeira to impress his friends on the Discord messaging platform – that said Iran concealed weapons in its humanitarian aid shipments to Syrian victims of the massive earthquakes in February.