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Pro-Iran protesters leave US embassy in Baghdad

11:41 pm January 1, 2020

Baghdad: Pro-Iran demonstrators left the besieged US embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday after the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force ordered them to withdraw a day after their dramatic incursion. Thousands of Iraqi supporters of the largely Iranian-trained Hashed had encircled and vandalised the embassy compound Tuesday, outraged by US air strikes that killed 25 Hashed fighters […]

Protesters attack US Embassy in Baghdad after airstrikes

6:00 am January 1, 2020

BAGHDAD: Angered by deadly airstrikes targeting an Iran-backed militia, dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area in one of the worst attacks on the embassy in recent memory. American guards fired tear gas, […]

Cheers, tears, prayers: A look at how world is ushering in 2020

5:52 am January 1, 2020

Washington: Revelers around the globe are bidding farewell to a decade that will be remembered for the rise of social media, the Arab Spring, the #MeToo movement and, of course, President Donald Trump. A look at how the world is ushering in 2020: ___ PARIS A joyful crowd of Parisians and tourists walked, biked and […]

Iraq PM demands protesters leave US embassy ‘immediately’

7:54 pm December 31, 2019

Baghdad: Iraq’s caretaker premier Adel Abdel Mahdi said on Tuesday that crowds that had stormed the US embassy in anger at deadly US air strikes should leave the compound “immediately.” Demonstrators had breached the embassy walls in protest at the Sunday strikes that killed at least 25 fighters from a hardline pro-Iran faction known as […]

Iran-backed Iraqi militia vows revenge to US airstrikes

11:15 pm December 30, 2019

Baghdad: An Iranian-backed militia said Monday that the death toll from US military strikes in Iraq and Syria against its fighters has risen to 25, vowing to exact revenge for the “aggression of evil American ravens.” The US attack the largest yet targeting an Iraqi state-sanctioned militia and the calls for retaliation, represent a new […]