Rocket fire struck near the Erbil International Airport in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region at about 1:30 p.m. EST (9:30 p.m. AST) on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. Initial reports from the U.S. coalition in Iraq indicate the attack left one civilian contractor dead and at least five wounded, including a U.S. service member. Wayne Marotto, a […]
In Ramadi, Iraq, calm was beginning to move throughout the city, and residents were hopeful that they were almost free from the terrors of ISIS. After so much war, however, the city is filled with land mines and other explosives. Brigadier General Ahmed al-Belawi reported that technicians are disabling and removing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from all […]
The Islamic State (IS) leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whose convoy was reportedly hit by airstrikes near the Syrian border with Iraq on Oct. 11, 2015, could be alive and hiding in Syria. Emerging news reports suggest that the reclusive leader of the terrorist group was not part of the entourage that took a hit from […]
