On January 28, three personnel of the United States Army were killed in Jordan at Tower 22 — a US logistics outpost near Jordan’s borders with Iraq and Syria used to support the larger al-Tanf garrison in Syria and advise the Jordanian military. This exchange of attacks between the United States and Iran-backed militias in Iraq, however, exposes new fault-lines …
Militia members chant ‘Death to America’ as they mass near Baghdad’s Green Zone where the US embassy is located. Thousands of members of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shabi paramilitary alliance gathered in Baghdad on Tuesday to mourn comrades killed in American air attacks along the Syrian border. The mourners, accompanied by vehicles full of gunmen, wore black and held up signs reading: …
