Tag: Iraq

Poland Seeks State of Emergency Along Border Amid Record-High Migration Levels

Poland’s government is set to declare a state of emergency on Tuesday in several areas along the countries’ border with Belarus as immigration levels have recently surged. The legislation, believed to be signed by Polish President Andrzej Duda on Aug. 31, comes as thousands of illegal immigrants, mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan, have tried to unlawfully…


France’s Macron Visits Iraq’s Mosul Destroyed by ISIS

MOSUL, Iraq—French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday visited Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, which suffered widespread destruction during the war to defeat the ISIS terrorist group in 2017. He vowed to fight alongside regional governments against terrorism. Macron said ISIS carried out deadly attacks throughout the world from its self-declared caliphate in parts of Syria…


EXCLUSIVE: Former US Marine Captain Evacuating as Many as Possible as Aug. 31 Deadline Looms

Elliot Ackerman has served five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine Corps officer and CIA officer. Over the past 10 days, he and his cohorts have unofficially evacuated around 200 people from Kabul airport. “We gave these people our word, that if they worked with us, we would stand shoulder to shoulder…


Iraq Says US to Return 17,000 Ancient Artifacts Looted After Invasion

BAGHDAD—The United States is returning more than 17,000 ancient artifacts looted and smuggled out of Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003, including a 3,500-year-old clay tablet bearing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, Iraq said on Tuesday. Tens of thousands of antiquities disappeared from Iraq after the 2003 invasion that toppled leader Saddam Hussein….


Biden’s Iraq Troop Maneuvers Largely Symbolic: Expert

President Joe Biden’s recent announcement that the United States will end its “combat” mission in Iraq this year was likely a symbolic gesture meant to support an embattled Iraqi prime minister ahead of October’s elections, according to experts familiar with the situation. Biden’s announcement happened July 26 during Iraq prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s visit to…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (July 26)

Thousands of Cuban Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., to call for an end to the communist dictatorship, President Joe Biden announced that the United States is ending its military combat mission in Iraq this year, and a new report from the Senate says the Biden administration is spending millions of taxpayer dollars per day to suspend border…


Biden: American Combat Troops Will Leave Iraq This Year

President Joe Biden said on July 26 that American combat troops will leave Iraq sometime in 2021, coming weeks after troops departed Afghanistan, although he added that some U.S. personnel would continue to work with Iraqi security forces in their fight against the ISIS terrorist group. “We are not going to be, by the end…


Lebanon Signs Deal to Sell Iraqi Fuel in Move to Ease Crisis

BEIRUT—Lebanon signed a deal Saturday to broker Iraqi fuel sales in hopes of alleviating a crippling financial and energy crisis in the small Mediterranean country, Lebanese and Iraqi media reported. The deal allows Beirut to resell 1 million tons of heavy fuel oil from Iraq—fuel that Lebanon cannot use in its own power plants—to companies…


Suicide Attack in Iraq’s Sadr City Kills at Least 35, Wounds Dozens

BAGHDAD—A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens in a crowded market in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad on Monday, the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival, security and hospital sources said. More than 60 people were wounded, a police source said. The ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack,…


Iraqi Health Officials: 64 Dead in Fire at Coronavirus Ward

BAGHDAD—The death toll from a catastrophic blaze that erupted at a coronavirus hospital ward in southern Iraq the previous day rose to 64 on Tuesday, Iraqi medical officials said. Two health officials said more than 100 people were also injured in the fire that torched the coronavirus ward of al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in the city…