Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
December 2022 - Iraq Special Weapons News
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- CENTCOM - YEAR IN REVIEW 2022: THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIS CENTCOM 29 Dec 2022 -- Throughout 2022, US Central Command and partner forces conducted hundreds of operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). These operations degraded ISIS and removed a cadre of senior leaders from the battlefield, to include the emir of ISIS and dozens of regional leaders as well as hundreds of fighters. All these operations were part of the mission to degrade the terror group's ability to direct and inspire destabilizing attacks in the region and globally, to include against the US homeland.
- Major Losses Shift Islamic State, Al-Qaida's Balance of Power VOA 29 Dec 2022 -- Across the United States and many other Western countries, the threat from Islamist terror groups has been increasingly overshadowed by the threats from other extremist groups, some of whom have proven to be more deadly in recent years.
- Iran says new round of fence-mending talks with Saudi Arabia possible in Baghdad Press TV 26 Dec 2022 -- The spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry has suggested that representatives from the Islamic Republic would most likely launch a new round of talks with their Saudi counterparts in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad aimed at mending strained ties between the two nations.
- Iraq: Speech by High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell at the Second Baghdad Conference in Jordan European External Action Service (EEAS) 20 Dec 2022
- 12 Iraqi police killed, several injured in bomb attack by Daesh near Kirkuk: Media Press TV 18 Dec 2022 -- At least a dozen Iraqi police forces have reportedly been killed in a roadside bomb attack by remnants of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group near the northern city of Kirkuk.
- READOUT: U.S. Central Command Engagement with Iraqi Leadership CENTCOM 14 Dec 2022 -- On Dec. 13, Gen. Michael "Erik" Kurilla, CENTCOM commander, visited Baghdad, where he met with Iraqi Prime Minister Shia' Al-Sudani, Minister of Defense Thabet Mohammed Saeed, Chief of Defense Lieutenant Gen. Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah, and commander of Joint Operations Command for Iraq Lieutenant Gen. Qais Al-Muhammadawi AI-Abbasi.
- 'Arrest warrant likely for ex-Iraqi PM over US assassination of Gen. Soleimani' Press TV 14 Dec 2022 -- A senior Iraqi lawmaker says the country's judiciary is likely to issue an arrest warrant against former prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi over his complicity in the assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and his associates.
- U.S., Iraq, Kuwait Conduct 2nd Joint Patrol in Arabian Gulf US Navy 12 Dec 2022 -- Maritime forces from Iraq, Kuwait and the United States completed a joint patrol in the Arabian Gulf, Dec. 11, representing the second time in four months the three nations sailed together to promote regional maritime security.
- Xi Jinping Meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Sabbar al-Sudani PRC MofA 09 Dec 2022
- Iraq: Investigative team reaches 'next level' in bid to bring ISIL terrorists to justice UN News 05 Dec 2022 -- Providing justice for the communities impacted by the ISIL terror network in Iraq remains the key focus of the UN investigative team there, Special Adviser Christian Ritscher told the Security Council on Monday.
- IRGC forces only 'a kilometer away' from terrorists in Iraqi Kurdistan: Colonel Press TV 04 Dec 2022 -- A commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the elite forces are very close to the positions of terrorist groups in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region but they will strike the terrorists only if they attack first.
- Iran asked Iraqi Kurdistan to extradite terrorists: IRGC general Press TV 02 Dec 2022 -- A commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran has already asked Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region to dismantle terrorist groups and hand over terrorists to the Islamic Republic.
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