LAST UPDATE: 15:02 Thousands of supporters of Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr stormed Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone today for the second time in a week, escalating a political standoff that has hit the country hardest. Protesters rallied by Sadr and his socio-political Sadrist Movement tore down concrete barriers and entered the Green Zone, which houses government […]
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US slaps new sanctions on Iran following strikes on US targets
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced new sanctions Friday on Iran’s metal exports and eight senior Iranian officials. The penalties came days after Iran fired missiles at U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation for an American airstrike in Baghdad that killed Iran’s top military leader, Qasem Soleimani, last week. After […]
‘Don’t know precisely’ when or where Soleimani would attack
The U.S. did not know exactly when slain Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani had planned to attack Americans, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said while maintaining the Trump administration’s line that such strikes were about to happen. “There was no doubt that there were a series of imminent attacks that were being plotted by Qasem […]