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Shafaq News
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Shafaq News
Foreign warnings urge Iraqis to avoid escalation against US-Led Coalition
Shafaq News – Baghdad Several Iraqi politicians have received warning messages from international sources urging them not to support or facilitate attacks against the US-led Global Coalition forces, a security expert told Shafaq News on Thursday. Saif Raad, a security and strategic affairs analyst, said that beginning last Saturday, a select group of Iraqi political figures received text messages on their personal phones warning of serious consequences if any attacks were carried out against coalition troops operating in Iraq. According to Raad, the messages included statements such as: 'Warning to Iranian militias. Any attacks on coalition forces will be met with a swift and decisive response,' and 'Iranian militias continue to endanger Iraqis… do not become puppets in Iran's hands.' He added that the texts were followed by voice calls repeating similar warnings. The term 'Iranian militias' commonly refers to Iraqi armed factions aligned with or backed by Iran, many of which are part of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an umbrella organization officially affiliated with the Iraqi state but composed of various groups with differing loyalties. Iraqi authorities have yet to issue any official response to the reported messages. These developments follow a wave of simultaneous drone attacks across multiple areas in Iraq — including Kirkuk, Baiji, Duhok, and al-Sulaymaniyah — as regional tensions intensified after a 12-day escalation between Iran and Israel. While no direct attacks were recorded on US military installations in Iraq during that period, US forces intercepted drones targeting the Ain al-Asad Air Base in al-Anbar Province. Despite their vocal support for Iran during the recent conflict, Iran-aligned Iraqi groups did not escalate their military posture significantly, maintaining a relatively restrained stance amid the regional standoff.
Iraqi News
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Iraqi News
Distinctive Results for Iraq at the West Asian Athletics Championships
Baghdad-INA Iraqi athletes achieved impressive results in the West Asian One-Day Athletics Championships, currently being held in the Qatari capital, Doha, on the sidelines of the Diamond League qualifying tournament for the World Championships. A statement from the Olympic Committee received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) stated that "runner Saif Raad won first place in the 100m race with a time of 10.22 seconds, setting a new and strong Iraqi record, with a wind speed of 1.4 m/s." "The runner Murtadha Azhar finished third with a time of 10.34 seconds, an achievement that confirms the progress of Iraqi runners in this fast distance." According to the statement "Runner Nour El Din Adel Marza, who is participating in this race for the first time, managed to achieve first place in the 400m race with a time of 46.25 seconds, while runner Taha Hussein came in second with a time of 46.97 seconds." It added, "Runner Ahmed Jamal managed to win first place in the 400m hurdles race with a time of 51.62 seconds."
