Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in the capital Baghdad on January 28, 2022, following a rocket attack on the airport...

Ayatollah Khamenei addresses via video link a group of people from Qom on the occasion of a 1978 popular uprising in the holy city...

This file photo shows Zeinab Soleimani, the daughter of top Iranian anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani who was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020...

File photo shows the immediate aftermath of an explosion in Iraq...

Former Blackwater security guard Evan Libebty...

In this file picture, a burnt car is seen at the site where Blackwater guards opened fire on a crowd at Nisour Square in Baghdad, Iraq, on September 16, 2007...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, and his wife Susan, arrive in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, September 28, 2020...

Iraqi President Barham Salih (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) review the honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq September 2, 2020...

Iraqi demonstrators clash with security forces during a protest over poor public services in the capital Baghdad on July 27, 2020...

US Embassy compound in Baghdad’s Green Zone (Photo by Reuters) The Iraqi government has condemned the United States for testing an air defense missile system inside its embassy in Baghdad...

File photo of Baghdad International Airport A rocket has landed in an area near Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi military says...

A handout picture released by Iraq’s Prime Minister’s Media Office on March 11, 2019 shows Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (L) shaking hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi as the latter receives the former at the government palace in the capital Baghdad...

A view of Baghdad International Airport (Photo by Reuters) The Iraqi military says three Katyusha rockets have landed in the perimeter of Baghdad International Airport...

This file picture shows Russian-built S-400 missile defense systems deployed in an undisclosed location in Russia...

The US Embassy in Baghdad says it has suspended all of its public consular operations, a day after thousands of Iraqi demonstrators gathered there to condemn Washington’s fatal military aggression targeting Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU)...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has strongly condemned the deadly American air raids that targeted the positions of Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi forces, saying Washington is in fact taking revenge on the popular forces because of the key role they played in defeating the Daesh terror group...

Up to 4,000 American paratroopers have been ordered to deploy to the Middle East region following mass protests outside the US embassy by Iraqi protesters infuriated over Washington’s recent deadly military aggression on the Arab country...

The United States’ Embassy in Baghdad has been evacuated after thousands of angry Iraqi demonstrators gathered outside the gates of the compound to condemn Washington’s fatal military aggression that targeted Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU)...

After its collapse in Mosul, Daesh has announced that the Takfiri terror group’s leader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, “has been killed,” a local source in Iraq’s Nineveh province says...