ISWNews Analysis Group: Sayyed Ahmad Al Safi, representative of Ayatullah Sistani, in Friday prayers in Karbala demanded real reforment in Iraq.
ISWNews Analysis Group: While curfew were previously announced on Wednesday in the cities of Nasiriyah, Amara and Hilla, Adel Abdul Mahdi last night issued a statement banned all people and vehicles from 5am Thursday until further notice.
ISWNews Analysis Group: Finally, after five years and the return of security to the Iraqi and Syrian border areas, the important border crossing of Al-Qaim-Al-Bukamal was reopened for public use.
ISWNews Analysis Group: According to Iraqi local sources,the vicinity of Al Marsanat military camp in western Anbar was targeted by unidentified aircraft.
ISWNews Analysis Group: Iraqi forces launched an operation named “Black Soil” in the Zur Kan’us area northeast of Saladin province with heavy US-led coalition air support against ISIS remnants in the area.
SWNews Analysis Group: Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi announced the downing of an unidentified drone in Diyala province that was planning to attack Iraqi forces in the Kanaan area.
ISWNews Analysis Group: An American explosives expert was killed as he tried to diffuse a bomb in Nineveh Province on Tuesday.
According to Hashd Al Shaabi information, Hashd Al Shaabi vehicles were bombed by Israeli drones near the Al Qaim border yesterday, killing two of its forces.
ISWNews Analysis Group: Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces(PMU) confirms the loss of two of its forces and the wounding of another in an unidentified UAV attack in Anbar province.
Grand Ayatollah Kazem Husseini Haeri, a prominent Twelver Shi’a Marja in Iraq, regarding the attacks on PMU’s bases said: “Remaining of US troops in Iraq by whatever name, such as training, military consulting or counterterrorism that they themselves originate, is a religious prohibition”
ISWNews Analysis Group: Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Deputy Chairman of Popular Mobilization Units in a statement blamed the United States for the recent attacks on the PMU’s bases in Iraq and stated that whatever happens from now on, its responsibility is on the United States.
Muhammad Baldawi, an Iraqi MP claimed that the airbase was attacked and the target was Hashad Sha’abi forces located in it.
