The names of the two American servicemen who were killed Sunday in Iraq have been released.
According to the U.S. Department of Defense, Gunnery Sgt. Diego Pongo and Capt. Moises Navas, both U.S. Marines, were killed while "advising and accompanying Iraqi Security Forces during a mission to eliminate an ISIS terrorist stronghold," the department said.
Dozens of Iraqi Shiite militia supporters broke into the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad on Dec. 31, 2019. The attack followed deadly U.S. airstrikes that killed 25 Iranian-backed militia members in Iraq. The U.S. said the airstrikes were in response to an American contractor's death in a militia rocket attack. Dozens of protesters marched inside the compound after smashing through an embassy gate. Shouting “Down, Down USA,” the crowd hurled water and stones over the compound walls. Protesters wav
Iraqi lawmakers have voted to end the presence of all foreign troops after a U.S. airstrike killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, whom the U.S. accused of carrying out terrorist attacks on Americans and hundreds of others throughout the region.
The Trump administration has said it does not intend to pull troops out of the country.
United States deploying3,000 troops to Middle East U.S. defense officials confirmedon Jan. 3 that approximately 3,000 additionalsoldiers were being sent to the Middle East. The deployment is reportedlynot in response to the recentAmerican assassination of QassemSoleimani, a top Iranian general. Instead, the deployment is acontinuation of an earlierannouncement made by U.S.Defense Secretary, Mark Esper. He called the decision an “appropriate andprecautionary” response to the Jan. 1 attackon th
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