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31 Dec 2019Military.com At least 100 infantry Marines from a crisis response unit designed to respond to emergencies at U.S. embassies have been dispatched to Iraq, where supporters of an Iran-backed militia smashed into an American diplomatic facility on Tuesday. The Marines are assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command, a ground-based […]
Dec 31 2019 09:19 Gmt+3 Tensions between Turkey and several eastern Mediterranean states could soon escalate into the most dangerous crisis the region has faced since the late 1990s. Then Turkey threatened to attack the Greek Cypriot-run internationally recognised Republic of Cyprus if it deployed Russian long-range S-300 air defence missiles. A year earlier Turkey […]
The Iraqi prime minister has asked rioters to stay away from the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad, stating that any aggression against embassies or foreign representations will be prevented and punished by law.
2019-12-31 /* custom css */ .td_uid_6_5e0b33bbb07e6_rand.td-a-rec-img { text-align: left; } .td_uid_6_5e0b33bbb07e6_rand.td-a-rec-img img { margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Moscow views US air strikes against Hezbollah facilities in western Iraq and eastern Syria as unacceptable and counter-productive, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday. An Iraqi base near Kirkuk that is used by […]
The Israel Defense Forces has been placed on high alert after the US struck several military sites in Iraq and Syria belonging to Iranian-backed Kata’ib Hizbullah, which Washington has accused of targeting American troops. The US attack was a response to Friday’s coordinated rocket strikes on the K1 military base in Kirkuk, Iraq, which killed […]
December 30, 2019 Topic: Security Region: Middle East Blog Brand: Middle East Watch Tags: IraqSyriaIranHezbollahISIS America’s Iraq War May Escalate After Airstrikes On Iranian-Backed Groups U.S. airstrikes were supposed to be a message of deterrence for the attack near Kirkuk. But this brinkmanship could lead to a wider conflict. by Seth J. Frantzman Forty-eight tense hours separated an attack that […]
Iran is mobilizing Iraqis to oppose the US presence in Iraq SETH J. FRANTZMAN In the wake of US airstrikes in Iraq that killed members of the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah, Iran is seizing the opportunity to use its clandestine networks in Iraq to push the US to leave the country. The US has already left […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s $3.6 billion offshore Leviathan field started production on Tuesday, paving the way for multi-billion dollar gas export deals with Egypt and Jordan in the coming weeks. Natural gas began flowing from Israel’s largest field despite regulatory delays and court petitions by groups opposing the project raised doubts that its operators would […]
The embassy attacks came as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held telephone calls with leaders in the Middle East Supporters of Iraq’s Khataib Hezbollah militia attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday following deadly airstrikes that killed 25 fighters from the Iran-backed Shiite militia in Iraq. The Pentagon said on Monday that it […]
Iran’s Zarif in Russia and China for strategic diplomatic push Iran’s goal is to conduct strategic dialogue with major non-western countries, including Russia, India and China, positioning itself as part of a large system of countries. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN DECEMBER 31, 2019 10:48 Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has had a busy forty-eight hours. […]
The Leviathan gas field off Israel’s Mediterranean shore goes operational on Tuesday following the flushing of the rig which was underway on Tuesday. The process was delayed when the Ministry of Environmental Protection said that Noble Energy had not yet properly calibrated the instrumentation for measuring harmful benzene emissions. When those conditions were met and […]
Pompeo tells Netanyahu that US “will take decisive action to defend its citizens and their interests against Iranian threats.” Elad Benari, 31/12/19
2019-12-30 BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:10 P.M.) – The Kingdom of Bahrain has expressed its support for the U.S. strikes on the Kata’eb Hezbollah bases in Iraq and Syria. “The Kingdom of Bahrain expresses support for the strikes conducted by the United States of America, targeting Kata’ib Hizbollah (KH) facilities in the Republic of Iraq and the […]
The autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government has been wary of changes in Baghdad over the last ten years as pro-Iranian groups have grown in power. SETH J. FRANTZMAN DECEMBER 31, 2019 09:13 At the height of the ISIS war on a row of hills west of the city of Kirkuk Kurdish commanders from the Peshmerga, the […]