Help us out, why are US troops still in Iraq?
Saturday, ASHARQ AL-AWSAT reported:
Forces at Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts US troops, intercepted and shot down a drone while it was hovering near the base early on Friday, US-led coalition and Iraqi security sources said.
The forces, using US air defense systems, shot down an armed unmanned aerial system entering the base at around 1:46 a.m. (2246 GMT), the Combined Joint Task Force, Operation Inherent Resolve, said on Twitter.
Again, why our US forces still in Iraq?
19 years ago on April 9th, the US seized control of Baghdad and as occupied the country since then. What was the reason for the invasion and occupation?
Press reports confirmed that the real reasons for the US and British governments for the occupation of Iraq lie in seizing Iraq's oil resources.
As those reports stated of incitement to the invasion by officials of major American oil companies, including the Halliburton Oil Group, while British government secret documents pointed to a strong relation of oil companies and institutions to the invasion of Iraq.
Head of al-Hal Party Jamal al-Karbouli, said on this occasion that the anniversary of the occupation of Baghdad represents a deep wound in the human conscience.
The greed motive that destroyed Iraq is also destroying the world and advancing climate change -- and over the next 30 years, Iraq is projected to be the fifth most harmed country in the world by climate change. (Like last week's dust storm, see "AFP needs to learn to count -- over 429 is not 'dozens;.")
If oil as a reason doesn't satisfy you, AHLUL BAYT NEWS AGENCY offers, " Syrian state media said the US forces brought out a convoy of 65 trucks and tanks loaded with quantities of wheat and oil stolen to the Iraqi territory through the illegal Al-Waleed crossing, the easternmost countryside of Hasaka."
A security source claimed two Iraqi soldiers were killed and another was wounded in an attack by Islamic State (IS) terrorists in Iraq’s western province of Anbar on Saturday. IS militants attacked an army post outside the town of Heet, 160 kilometres west of Baghdad, in the morning, killing two troops and wounding a third, according to Saad al-Eisawi, an army official in the region. The attackers took advantage of the adverse weather, carrying out their attack during a dust storm early in the morning, according to al-Eisawi.
A member of the paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces and a villager were killed, and four villagers wounded Saturday in an attack by militants of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group in Iraqi northern province of Kirkuk, a local police source said.
The attack took place in the evening when the IS militants opened fire on a village near the town of al-Rashad, some 250 km north of Baghdad, Major Abbas al-Obaidi from the Kirkuk police was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
Dler S. Mohammed (KURDISTAN 24) notes another Kirkuk attack on Saturday and quotes an unnamed government security source stating, "Armed ISIS militants launched an attack on a security point in
Dakishman village belonging to the security units of the Iraqi
parliament member Wasfi al-Asi. The attack resulted in killing a
member in the security unit and injuring another one."