US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his condemnation of Tuesday’s attack on the US Embassy in Iraq, as well as the latter’s “unwavering commitment” to counter Iran’s “malign” influence in the region. In a late Wednesday call “the Secretary and Prime Minister reaffirmed ...
Iraqi protesters began leaving the encircled US embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday, a day after their incursion into the compound in protest against US strikes on Hashd Shaabi fighters on Sunday. The Hashd Shaabi, known in English as Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), ordered its supporters to end their sit-in at ...