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Onko ISIS saanut aikaiseksi tutka-asemia, koska heidän piti käyttää stealth puikkoja kurmootuksessa?
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U.S. military has released footage of airstrikes on three separate sites operated by Iranian-backed militias along the Iraqi-Syrian border. These strikes, which President Joe Biden ordered, primarily targeted these groups' growing unmanned aircraft capabilities and follow an increasing number of drone attacks on bases in Iraq that host American personnel in recent months.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) posted the trio of videos online on June 28, 2021, the day after the strikes occurred. All three of the sites struck by American warplanes were in the general vicinity of the town of Al Bukamal in Syria and Al-Qa'im, immediately opposite it on the Iraqi side of the border. The Pentagon had also named Kata'ib Hezbollah and Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, specifically, as being among "several Iran-backed militia groups" that utilized these facilities.
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Biden Orders Strikes On Iranian-Backed Militias' Growing Unmanned Aircraft Arsenal (Updated)

Facilities in Iraq that host American troops have been increasingly the target of attacks involving drones that are tied to Iranian-backed militias.
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Resoluutio on häikäisevä vaikka video on vain 720p.

A statement from Iraq's armed forces slammed the latest American strikes as “a blatant and unacceptable violation of Iraqi sovereignty and Iraqi national security in accordance with all international conventions.”

At the same time, "Iraq renews its refusal to be an arena for settling accounts, and clings to its right to sovereignty over its lands, and prevents it from being used as an arena for reactions and attacks," that statement added, which could be seen as seeking to place blame on both sides. “We call for calm and avoiding escalation in all its forms, stressing that Iraq will carry out the necessary investigations, procedures and contacts at various levels to prevent such violations.”
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rty19 kirjoitti:
Tarkoitus että USA lähtee Irakista samalla tapaan kuin Afganistanissa nyt on meneillään.
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Afghanistanin viimeisillään olevan poistumisoperaation kynnyksellä on kyllä pakko ihmetellä että tätä Irakinkin näytelmää jaksetaan jatkaa.

Toisaalta on alueella öljyvaroja joita suojella rutkasti vaikka yhteiskunta siellä taitaa kuitenkin olla aika vaihtelevasti Jenkkilän preesenssiin suhtautuva. Eli joku taloudellinen houkutin tuollakin pysymiselle täytyy olla kun kerran sekä USA, Nato ja Irakin hallitus yhdessä kehräten takaavat sen että operaatio jatkuu Irakilaisten omien joukkojen tukitoimilla hamaan tulevaisuuteen asti.

Toisaalta Irakilaisia kaikista yhteiskuntaluokista on todennäköisesti saanut surmansa tuhansittain ensiksi Saddamin hallinnon kaatumisen jälkeisissä sisäisissä konflikteissa ja tämän jälkeen ISIS:n invaasion jäljiltä myös. Lisäksi maahan on päässyt ilmeisesti juurtumaan Iranilaisia jihadistiryhmiä joka on taas sellainen käänne etten uskoisi kyllä Saddamin ikinä sallineen moisen porukan juurtumista maahansa. Lisäksi pakolaistilannehan on tunnetusti muodostunut aikamoiseksi taakaksi Euroopan eri maille.

Näkisin että länsimaat olisivat saaneet jättää Irakin ihan omilleen Saddamin hallitsemaksi keitaaksi niin pitkään kuin hänen valtakautensa olisi kestänyt vuoden 1991 sodan jälkeen. Väkisin kuitenkin eri tahot Jenkkilässä halusivat löytää todisteita massatuhoaseista silloin aikoinaan joka sitten ainakin virallisesti oikeutti tämän kansainvälisesti varsin epäsuositun operaation.
 
Erinlainen Irak

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‘They will never let go’: Isis fighters regroup in the heart of Iraq

Iraqi special forces hunt Isis in lowlands south of Kirkuk, where the militants keep on the move, seeking to regain territorial control
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The United States is ending its combat mission in Iraq, President Joe Biden announced Monday, though U.S. troops will remain in the country to continue training and advising local forces.

“Our role in Iraq will be...to be available to continue to train, to assist to help and to deal with ISIS as it arises, but we are not going to be by the end of the year in a combat mission,” Biden said at the beginning of a meeting in the Oval Office with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi.

Biden said the U.S. remains committed to “our security cooperation and our shared fight against ISIS is critical for the stability of the region and our counterterrorism cooperation will continue even as we shift to this new phase we are going to be talking about.”

The military has about 2,500 American troops in Iraq today. At the White House briefing on Monday, press secretary Jen Psaki declined to provide details on how many troops will stay in Iraq past the end of this year to provide training and advising help.

“We feel this is a natural and next step in these ongoing strategic dialogues and we are moving to a phase not where we are ending our partnership, we are maintaining a presence in Iraq with a different mission,” she said. “This is a shift in mission, it is not a removal of our partnership or our presence or our close engagement with Iraqi leaders.”
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US Will End Combat Mission In Iraq, Biden Says

US needs to 'divert more of our body on threats in China and Russia,' says Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Gen. Hyten
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Väkivalta kasvaa Irakissa​

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Irakin pohjoisosissa piilossa elävät Isis-taistelijat ovat aktivoituneet ja idea uudesta islamilaisesta valtiosta, kalifaatista, on vahvistunut. Terrori-iskujen uhreja ovat siviilit ja Irakin hauras demokratia. Mm pääministerin läheinen neuvonantaja Hišam al-Hašim murhattiin kotiovelleen Bagdadissa. Lisäksi koronaepidemia verottaa niin poliisi- kuin sotilasvoimia. (Yhdysvallat, 2021)

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Väkivalta kasvaa Irakissa

Irakin pohjoisosissa piilossa elävät Isis-taistelijat ovat aktivoituneet ja idea uudesta islamilaisesta valtiosta, kalifaatista, on vahvistunut. Terrori-iskujen uhreja ovat siviilit ja Irakin hauras demokratia. Mm pääministerin läheinen neuvonantaja Hišam al-Hašim murhattiin kotiovelleen...
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mitäs irakissa muuten tapahtui,
miksei siellä tapahtunut samaa kun afganistanissa, sen jälkeen kun jenkit häipyi? eli miksei saddamin fanit vallanneet heti maata takaisin?
 
J-J kirjoitti:
mitäs irakissa muuten tapahtui,
miksei siellä tapahtunut samaa kun afganistanissa, sen jälkeen kun jenkit häipyi? eli miksei saddamin fanit vallanneet heti maata takaisin?
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Sunnit ovat vähemmistö, enemmistö on shiioja. Talebanit ovat pataaneja jotka ovat enemmistö.
 
Beneath what remains of the 12th-century Al-Hadba minaret, builders work on a project to revive Mosul's Old City, reduced to rubble during Iraq's battle to retake the city from jihadists.

Mosques, churches and century-old houses are being brought back to life in the northern metropolis, which the Islamic State group seized as its stronghold before being pushed out in mid-2017.

"Al-Hadba is the icon of Mosul, the symbol of the city," said Omar Taqa, a supervising engineer with UNESCO, the United Nations heritage body which has launched several projects to restore the city's landmarks.

The minaret was featured on Iraqi 10,000-dinar banknotes before the jihadists flew their black flag from the top of its 45-metre (49 yards) spire.

IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his only confirmed public appearance in July 2014 at the Al-Nuri mosque, where he declared the establishment of a "caliphate".

Three years later Iraq's army and a US-led international coalition had forced the jihadists out of Iraq's second city. The Al-Nuri mosque, and the adjacent leaning minaret -- nicknamed Al-Hadba or the "hunchback" -- were destroyed in June 2017 during the battle to take back the city.

Iraqi authorities had accused IS of planting explosives there before their withdrawal.

"We found 11 mines there, ready to be activated," said Taqa. "Some were hidden inside walls."
Only the central area of the mosque remains, its dome propped up on arches supported by wooden wedges. Atop the columns of grey marble, traces of blue enhance the adjoining capitals.

As for Al-Hadba, only its base remains standing, protected by a sheet of tarpaulin. Having removed about 5,600 tonnes of rubble, the reconstruction of the minaret begins in mid-March -- retaining its tilt -- while work on the mosque is due to begin in the summer.

By the end of 2023, the site should be ready.
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Mosul's Old City rises from rubble in war-scarred Iraq

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In the city, normality has begun to return. There are signs of a fledgling cultural revival, with libraries and museums reopening.

Even as buildings in the Old City lie half-collapsed, coffee shops, workshops and bakers have reopened their doors. At the bend in an alley, women buy their vegetables steps away from workers mixing concrete.

Rows of houses edge closer to complete restoration, some of them between 100 and 150 years old. In the maze of houses that make up the historic district, visitors gasp in awe at elegant alabaster walls with Ottoman-inspired motifs overlooking courtyards.

"There are 44 houses that are practically finished. They will be turned over at the end of March," engineer Mostafa Nadhim told AFP. Another 75 are to be completed this year.

The project will also see the rehabilitation of infrastructure including "electric cables, street lights, water pipes and pavements", Nadhim added.

Ikhlas Salim, who moved back into her home just a few months ago, heats up a lunchtime meal for her two sons. They work on nearby reconstruction sites.

When she first returned to her home, it was in ruins, but she said its restoration has had a "therapeutic" effect.

"It's my grandparents' house," the 55-year-old said. "At first, we had lost hope of coming back."
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Iraqi authorities said Sunday that they had exhumed the remains of 85 Islamic State group fighters and their relatives from a mass grave in the northern city of Mosul.

The remains of 35 people killed between 2016 and 2017 were dug up on Saturday while 50 were found on Sunday and "work is ongoing", said Hassan Wathiq al-Anzi, head of forensics in northern Iraq's Nineveh province.

Workers unearthed bones and skulls, placing them in black bags for transportation to the forensic department, an AFP correspondent said.

It is the first announcement of a mass grave of IS fighters killed during the 2016-2017 battle to recapture Mosul, the extremist group's former stronghold.

Anzi was unable to provide an estimate of the total number of bodies at the site nor the precise circumstances of their deaths.

IS seized large swathes of Iraqi territory in 2014, declaring a "caliphate" and killing thousands there before Baghdad declared victory in 2017.

The United Nations says the group left behind more than 200 mass graves that could contain as many as 12,000 bodies.

The Mosul site was located behind a mosque in a residential area in the Al-Rifai district, Anzi said, adding that DNA samples would be taken to identify the bodies.

Nineveh's civil defence said that while digging began on Saturday, the authorities were previously aware of the site's location.

Iraq continues to discover mass graves not only from the IS period but also from the regime of former dictator Saddam Hussein, who was toppled in a US-led invasion in 2003.
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Iraq digs up mass grave containing bodies of IS fighters, relatives

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Shareholders in Swedish telecom giant Ericsson on Tuesday sanctioned the company's board and chief executive over its handling of a corruption scandal involving possible payments to the Islamic State group in Iraq.
Shareholders representing more than the required 10 percent voted against discharging the board and CEO Borje Ekholm from liabilities, a normally routine decision, at the company's annual general meeting.
Both Ekholm and the board were nonetheless re-elected to their positions.
Ekholm, who took over as Ericsson chief executive in 2017, has been credited with turning the then-struggling company around.
"This unacceptable behaviour that went on for several years started a long time ago," he told shareholders.
"The consequences have continued under my leadership... (but) we have accomplished durable change," he said, adding: "We have zero tolerance for corruption".
The telecoms giant has been under scrutiny in recent months after a media investigation coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) revealed that an internal Ericsson investigation from 2019 was never made public.
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Shareholders sanction Ericsson board over Iraq corruption

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Three rockets landed on Wednesday near an oil refinery in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdistan region, with "no casualties or material damage reported", Kurdish counter-terrorism forces said.

The rockets fell near the Kawergosk refinery, one of the largest in the oil-rich area, located about 20 kilometres (12 miles) northwest of regional capital Arbil, the forces said in a statement.

"The rockets were launched from Khazir area in Mosul," Iraq's second city, located to the west of Arbil, the statement added.

The attack was not immediately claimed.

It comes less than a month after Iran's Revolutionary Guards -- the Islamic republic's ideological army -- claimed an assault on Arbil that it said targeted an Israeli "strategic centre".

The Guards fired a dozen ballistic missiles in the March 13 attack, which caused extensive damage to buildings without resulting in any deaths.

Kurdish authorities have insisted the Jewish state has no sites in or near Arbil.
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Three rockets land near oil refinery in northern Iraq

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