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One of the drones had the words “Soleimani’s revenge” written on it. The other had “revenge operations for our leaders.”

I’ll never forget him. Or his voice.

18 years after the invasion of Iraq, a Marine looks back on his role in the whirlwind march to Baghdad.

Washington has made preparations to withdraw diplomats from Iraq after warning Baghdad it could shut its embassy, two Iraqi officials and two Western diplomats said, a step Iraqis fear could turn their country into a battle zone.

Police said an anti-rocket system set up to defend the U.S. embassy shot down a rocket which exploded in mid-air.

CNN reporter Barbara Starr confirmed on Sunday that the embassy had been struck by three rockets. Iraq's former foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari tweeted that one of the rockets hit the embassy's dining facility.

"We want them all out - America, Israel, and the corrupt politicians in government."

The 82nd Airborne soldiers will take over security at the embassy in Baghdad from the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response, a U.S. Central Command spokesman said

"[I]t doesn’t really matter because of his horrible past!"

"We did not take action to start a war," Trump says after US kills Iranian general, deploys troops near Iran.

Thousands of additional paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division will soon deploy to U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility, a Defense Department spokesman confirmed to Task & Purpose

The protests marked a new turn in the shadow war between Washington and Tehran

Thousands of Iraqi protestors stormed the front gates of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday in one of the most violent incursions into the compound in recent years

It's the third attack in less than a week on Iraqi military bases.

"We're waiting for full evidence, but if past is prologue then there's a good chance that Iran was behind it"

Security forces have used live ammunition, tear gas and stun grenades against mostly young, unarmed protesters, killing more than 280 people, according to a Reuters tally based on medical and police sources.

"Our demand is not only to replace Adel Abdul Mahdi, we want the whole government uprooted"

Demonstrators and security forces clashed on Saturday in renewed anti-government protests.

Iran-backed militias deployed snipers on Baghdad rooftops during Iraq's deadliest anti-government protests in years, two Iraqi security officials told Reuters

"The bullets do not scare us. They do not scare Iraqis. This will all come down over their heads," said one protester in Baghdad.

Over the past three days, nationwide protests over unemployment, corruption and public services have left 18 people dead and over 600 wounded

A rocket was fired in Iraqi capital Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign embassies.

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has issued a security alert to U.S. citizens that warns of "heightened tensions" in Iraq and advises against travel to the country

Fifteen years of war have turned Iraqi cities such as Ramadi, Fallujah, and Mosul into ruins. Iraq remains as divided...

Nearly 15 years after the U.S. military toppled Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, the U.S. government is replaying its post-invasion script...