Iraq

Press TV: Iraq’s al-Nujaba resistance movement has called for a complete pullout of American forces from the country, saying the planned withdrawal under the newly-inked agreement between Baghdad and Washington must include the US military’s “criminal” air force. “We have no confidence whatsoever in Americans, and do not agree to their presence under any circumstances. We fiercely oppose the US military presence, and demand a complete pullout of American forces,” Nasr al-Shammari, Nujaba’s spokesman, told the Lebanese al-Mayadeen news network in an interview on Monday night. The comments followed a meeting between Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and US President Joe Biden in Washington, where they sealed an agreement formally ending the US “combat” mission in Iraq by the ...

By Kevin Barrett  www.PressTV.ir interview with Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor The Iraqi prime minister says his country no longer needs American combat troops, and a formal time frame for their withdrawal would depend on the outcome of his talks with US officials. In an interview, Mustafa al-Kadhimi said the American withdrawal schedule would be based on the needs of Iraqi forces. Al-Kadhimi, who is set to meet with US president Joe Biden in Washington on Monday, underlined that the Iraqi army is capable of conducting its own independent operations against Daesh terrorists. https://youtu.be/9mLFbjFig1U?t=4 However, the premier said, Iraq will still ask for the US help for training and military intelligence gathering in its fight against terrorism. ...

BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, Truthout His name was Paul Nakamura, and he was from Santa Fe Springs, California. Nakamura was an American soldier, part of an ambulance crew in Iraq transporting an injured soldier for medical attention on June 19 when the ambulance was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. Nakamura was killed in this attack. He was 21 years old. His name was Michael Deuel, and he was from Nemo, South Dakota. Deuel was an American soldier ordered to guard a propane distribution center in Iraq. He was shot on June 18 while performing this guard duty and died of his wounds. He was 21 years old. His name was William Latham, and he was from Kingman, Arizona. Latham was an American soldier who participated in a raid at a suspected arms market in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on May 19. He...

BY: William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Saddam Hussein, former employee of the American federal government, was captured near a farmhouse in Tikrit in a raid performed by other employees of the American federal government. That sounds pretty deranged, right? Perhaps, but it is also accurate. The unifying thread binding together everyone assembled at that Tikrit farmhouse is the simple fact that all of them, the soldiers as well as Hussein, have received pay from the United States for services rendered. It is no small irony that Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad, the monster under your bed lo these last twelve years, was paid probably ten thousand times more during his time as an American employee than the soldiers who caught him on Saturday night. The boys in the Reagan White House were...

Soldiers board a CH-47 Chinook helicopter as they depart from al-Qaim base, Iraq, on March 9, 2020. BY: Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies, Salon At Bagram Air Base, Afghan scrap merchants are already picking through the graveyard of U.S. military equipment that was until recently the headquarters of America’s 20-year occupation of their country. Afghan officials say the last U.S. forces slipped away from Bagram in the dead of night, without notice or coordination. Taliban fighters are rapidly expanding their control over hundreds of districts, usually through negotiations between local elders, but also by force when troops loyal to the Kabul government refuse to give up their outposts and weapons. A few weeks ago, the Taliban controlled a quarter of the c...

By Allan C. Brownfeld Then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz (l) looks on as President George W. Bush shakes hands with an unidentified person after signing the Defense Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2005, Aug. 5, 2004. (AFP photo/Tim Sloan) FOR MANY Americans, the basis for the 2003 U.S. attack on Iraq remains something of a mystery. The reasons the Bush administration cited for going to war—that Iraq had ties with al-Qaeda, that it possessed weapons of mass destruction and that, somehow, it was involved in the terrorist attacks of 9/11—have all been proven to be false. It is, some argued, as if, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, we declared war on Mexico. There were, however, a group of men and women in and out of government who had been proposing such an...

Iraq PM strongly condemns US raids on PMU forces as ‘flagrant violation’ of country’s sovereignty PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: Iraq once again makes another toothless protest against US bombing any targets inside Iraq that it wants, including units of the country’s military, the PMU. Sure these units are involved in combating US supported terrorist forces in eastern Syria where it has committed itself to an aggressive form of sanctions, asset stripping one of the most economically productive regions of Syria in violation of a number of international laws and the UN charter. Where are the US military inspectors general protecting US troops from being used this way? Or is there some secret OK from the Supreme Court for the US military to engage in proxy terrorism wh...

By VT Editors Iraq’s anti-terror group Kata’ib Hezbollah has warned that its forces will take American troops stationed in the Arab country by surprise, if they refuse to leave despite the parliament’s decision to expel them from Iraq.  Press TV: “If the American forces do not leave the country, we will take them by surprise,” al-Mayadeen television news network quoted Muhammad Mohi, a spokesman for Kata’ib Hezbollah, as saying on Sunday. Any possible future attack on the US forces in Iraq will be carried out by the Islamic resistance forces, not the country’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), the spokesman said, alluding to the fact that the PMU has been integrated into the Iraqi army and is now part of the country’s armed forces. In another part of his sta...