The double-tap strike in Iraq's Anbar Province killed Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, who also served as ISIS's chief of ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation ... but will also ...

Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was “deputy caliph” of the militant group and “one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the ...

On his Truth Social platform Friday night, US President Donald Trump said, “Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters” in ...

"Trump is obligated to withdraw his forces from Iraq by the end of 2025, and they must abide by their pledges to the Iraqi government," Firas al-Yasser, a member of the Nujaba Movement's Political ...

Q: Last question, and that is, what’s the current state of the relationship between Iraq and the United States? And how can it improve? A: Well, I think it should improve if a strong delegation ...

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For more than twenty years, the United States has invested significant ... Despite the current period of unprecedented calm in Iraq, almost uniformly the officials were worried.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces eliminated ISIS’s second-in-command Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known by his alias “Abu Khadijah,” on Thursday in western Iraq, the organization ...

A joint Iraq-U.S. operation killed a leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, according to Washington and Baghdad. Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rufay’i, also known as Abu Khadija, was responsible ...

Iraq faces worsening power shortages after the US cuts waivers tied to Iranian gas and electricity imports. Despite its oil and gas wealth, Iraq has suffered from decades of electricity shortages ...

For years, this strategy proved successful. Slowly but surely, Tehran’s “axis of resistance” gained influence in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, where it railed against Israel and the United States. In ...