Two weeks ago, the Falcons Cell was one of the Iranian-backed factions’ most-prized assets in Iraq.
The elite intelligence unit, hailed as Iraq’s “most dangerous” spy network, is CIA and MI6 trained. It boasts hundreds of successful operations against militant operatives, and rivals all other Iraqi intelligence services in its scope and prowess.
Yet in one swoop, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has changed its leadership and snatched this prize from his Shia rivals, securing for himself an organisation that gives him knowledge and power that his political enemies will find deeply troubling.
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Syria and Iraq could see Daesh revival
Christiane Waked Filed on January 25, 2021
Daesh has increased its pace of operations with deadly tactics such as ambushes, assassinations and explosions.
The administration of former US President Donald Trump had announced its intention to withdraw 500 troops in mid-January, leaving only 2,500 in Iraq. Almost all troops from other member-states of the anti-Daesh coalition had left the country at the start of the novel Covid-19 pandemic.
It is true that the chances of Daesh controlling a territory in Syria or Iraq like the one it had before are minimal but that doesn’t mean that they cannot mobilise the estimated 18,000 remaining fighters in the aforementioned countries.
The Baghdad Market Deadly Suicide Bombing Was Carried Out by The Iraqi Nationals Published January 25th, 2021 - 09:02 GMT
Iraqi mourners carry the coffin of a victim who was killed in a twin suicide bombing in central Baghdad, during a funeral in the holy city of Najaf on January 21, 2021. A rare twin suicide bombing killed 32 people and wounded 110 at a crowded market in central Baghdad, Iraq s government said, the city s deadliest attack in three years. The first attacker drew a crowd at the bustling market in the capital s Tayaran Square by claiming to feel sick, then detonated his explosives belt, the interior ministry said. As more people then flocked to the scene to help the victims, a second suicide bomber set off his explosives. Ali NAJAFI / AFP
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