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IRAQ: Multiple Katyusha rockets fall in Baghdad’s Green Zone (VIDEO)

By various reports, multiple (two or three) Katyusha rockets hit targets inside Baghdad's Green Zone in the past hour.

The rockets landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone. The United States Army and Iraqi police both reported news of the strike late in the day Wednesday, U.S. time, as did reporters and others ...

Iraq: Chevron evacuates staff from Kurdistan oil site, will Russia’s Rosneft benefit?

Chevron said Monday it has evacuated all expatriate oil workers from Iraq, following last week's Trump airstrike in Baghdad that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.

Chevron, which is the number 2 U.S. oil company, said in a statement that as a "precautionary measure" all non-Iraqi employees and contractors have departed the company's one and ...

House Intel chair Adam Schiff on Iran: ‘We have to expect retaliation’

In remarks to reporters about the U.S.-led assassination of top Iran general Qasem Soleimani, House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff [D-CA] said that the United States must now “expect retaliation” by Iran, which today vowed a “crushing response” against the United States and its allies.

Said SCHIFF:

“I have yet to be fully satisfied that the ...

Iran War: As U.S. sends 3,500 more troops to mideast, the vibe in Baghdad is bad

PHOTO - In this 2016 photo released by the office of Iran's supreme leader, Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran. Soleimani was killed yesterday in U.S. airstrike on the Baghdad airport in Iraq.

As the U.S. sends some 3,500 additional troops to the mideast, Washington ...

IRAQ: Rocket strikes reported at US-Iraqi military base near Baghdad airport

BREAKING NEWS: There are reports in the Iraqi capital of missiles striking near Baghdad airport, after a series of explosions were heard.

Citing Iraqi security forces, Al Jazeera reported that rockets targeted a joint US-Iraqi counterterrorism military site in the area. Multiple news agencies in the region are reporting civilian casualties in the rocket attack.

WhiteFox Defense lands $12 million as the demand for drone defense technologies intensifies

Four months ago, when two commercial DJI-made drones loaded with 1 kilogram each of plastic explosive detonated during a speech from Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro at a military event in Caracas, the world at large was introduced to the newest threat from our automated, dystopian present — cheap weaponized drone technology. For Luke Fox, the ...

Barack Obama Couldn’t Answer Questions On The Surge

01.05.2009 · Posted in Education Articles

During the debates with Obama, John McCain spoke of how The Surge was the reason the terrorists were pushed back. Barack had no answer and just stood there on stage. I couldn't believe he didn't respond with the Iraqi's had abandon Al-Qaeda and started helping the marines. Al-Qaeda had been oppressive ...

John McCain’s Reason for Success In Iraq was The Surge

01.04.2009 · Posted in News and Media

During the debates with Obama, McCain told of how The Surge was the reason the terrorists were pushed back. Barack had no answer and just stood there on stage. I couldn't believe he didn't respond with the Iraqi's had abandon Al-Qaeda and started helping the marines. Al-Qaeda had been oppressive and ...