Tag: Hashd Shaabi

Baghdad: The paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces repelled an attack by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, leaving a paramilitary fighter dead and three others wounded, a provincial security official said. The extremist IS militants attacked Hashd Shaabi positions near the town of Khanaqin, some 165 km northeast of the capital Baghdad, […]

Baghdad: The US-led coalition and the Iraqi military on Saturday denied any fresh airstrike north of Baghdad, after it was reported that a convoy of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) or the Hashd Shaabi was attacked. “The coalition did not conduct airstrikes near Camp Taji in recent days,” Xinhua news agency reported citing the coalition […]