by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 29, 2016 | Middle East
Diyala –Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has sent an elite force to Diyala governorate after several armed fights erupted between tribes in Abu Saida area. Heavy and medium weapons were used in the clashes that led to the death and injury of several people. An...
by Tim Arango | Jun 2, 2016 | Middle East
Near Fallujah (Iraq), New York Times-Along the battle line north of Fallujah, small units of Shi’ite fighters are raining mortar shells and rockets down on the city and its ISIS occupiers. The battle in Fallujah has become entrenched outside the city itself....
by Hamza Mustafa | Mar 5, 2015 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Washington and Tehran have reached a “special understanding” over the forthcoming offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Tikrit, Iraqi political sources said, as the US warned the assault to retake the city must not...
by Diana Moukalled | Mar 3, 2015 | Opinion
Before a year ago, mystery, intrigue and frustration surrounded the search for any report, photograph, or fact relating to Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran’s Quds Force, a division of its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. For more than two decades Suleimani’s...
by Hamza Mustafa | Jan 27, 2015 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—At the same time that the Iraqi army has announced the liberation of Diyala province in the east of the country from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the region’s local tribes accused some of the Shi’ite volunteer forces who helped...
