2022-10-11: News Headlines

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-10). Biden Changes Drone Strike Policy. news.antiwar.com President Biden on Friday issued guidance requiring presidential approval for drone strikes outside of Iraq and Syria, which are the only two countries officially recognized as active US war zones. This means that drone strikes in countries like Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan would need to be approved by President Biden. The guidance comes as the …

Staff (2022-10-10). PMU detains senior ISIL leader in Baghdad. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — Iraq's Popular Mobilization unit (PMU) on Monday announced that it has managed to arrest a senior ISIL chieftain in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

Jason Ditz (2022-10-10). Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government Extends Term by a Year. news.antiwar.com In a Sunday vote This means The big parties could not agree on districting, nor for quotas for ethnic a…

Staff (2022-10-10). Iran, Venezuela envoys to Iraq review intl. developments. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — The Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Iraq Mohammad Kazem Al-e Sadeq in a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart in Iraq discussed the latest international developments.

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-10-10). Reportan ataque contra base militar de EE.UU. en Siria. telesurtv.net El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Siria acusó este sábado a Estados Unidos de robar y exportar petróleo sirio a través de la frontera sirio-iraquí.

_____ (2022-10-09). Iraq: some light in the "political clouds" journal-neo.org Almost a year after Iraq's last parliamentary elections in October 2021, no government has yet been formed. There is a fierce power struggle to form a government between the Sadrist movement, led by populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and the Coordination Framework (CF) alliance, which includes a number of Shiite parties largely united in their opposition …

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