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Iraqi militiamen hurl stones at US embassy
Hundreds of Iraqi militiamen and their supporters have hurled stones at the US Embassy in Baghdad for a second day and security forces have fired tear gas and stun grenades to drive them away. The protests, led by Iranian-backed militias, mark a new turn in the shadow war between Washington and Tehran playing out across…
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Iraqi protesters withdraw from US embassy
Supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups who stormed the US embassy’s perimeter and hurled rocks in two days of protests have withdrawn after Washington dispatched extra troops and threatened reprisals against Tehran. The demonstrators, angry at US air strikes against the Tehran-backed Kataib Hezbollah group in which at least 25 people were killed, threw stones…
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New York clergy denounce anti-Semitic violence following slew of attacks
Rev Al Sharpton assembled a group of black clergy and civil rights leaders to meet with a New York rabbi on Monday, a day after five people were stabbed at a Hanukkah celebration about 50 kilometres north of Manhattan. The attack came after a spate of anti-semitic incidents in New York City the previous week…
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US hits Tehran’s terror proxies
The first US airstrikes in almost a decade targeted directly at Iranian proxy forces fighting in Iraq and Syria need to deter Tehran’s ayatollahs from persisting with their malign export of terrorism and subversion across the Middle East. Not since Barack Obama’s ill-judged, premature withdrawal of US troops from Iraq in 2011 has Washington sent…
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Downer feared Australia seen as too close to Israel ahead of key visit
Former foreign minister Alexander Downer feared Australia was seen as “overly supportive” of Israel while it was isolated “in poor company” supporting the Middle East nation in international forums. A cabinet submission from 1998, released on Wednesday by the National Archives of Australia, that canvassed Australia’s approach to an upcoming visit by Israeli leader Benjamin…
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Iraqi militiamen hurl stones at US embassy
Hundreds of Iraqi militiamen and their supporters have hurled stones at the US Embassy in Baghdad for a second day and security forces have fired tear gas and stun grenades to drive them away. The protests, led by Iranian-backed militias, mark a new turn in the shadow war between Washington and Tehran playing out across…
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Iraq threatens to retaliate after US air strikes
Beirut: Tensions have soared between Washington and Baghdad as officials traded accusations over American air strikes against Iranian-backed militias based in Iraq and Syria. The Iraqi government condemned the Sunday attacks as a violation of the country’s sovereignty and said it would review its relationship with the United States. US officials said the Iraqis had failed…
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Iran-backed Iraqi militia, mob breach US Embassy compound in Baghdad
Baghdad Dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the US Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, angered over deadly US airstrikes targeting the Iran-backed militia. lames were seen rising from inside the compound and at least three US soldiers were spotted on…
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Trump threatens Iran after Baghdad embassy attack
Washington: US President Donald Trump has been pulled toward the kind of Middle East tinderbox he has tried to avoid as he blamed Iran for an attack on the American Embassy in Iraq that further damaged US relations with Baghdad and appeared to put his hopes for diplomacy with Tehran further out of reach. Hundreds of…
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Cabinet documents 1998-99: Risk Australia seen as ‘overly supportive’ of Israel, says Downer
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer pushed the Howard cabinet to boost ties with the Palestinians, warning that Australia was seen as “overly supportive” of Israel. With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about to make a historic visit to Australia in August 1998, Mr Downer suggested Mr Netanyahu was a hardliner. He told cabinet there was every…