ARIFJAN, KUWAIT 03.27.2020, March 27, 2020 — For the SOJTF-OIR Coalition and our Iraq and Syria partners, the COVID-19 pandemic adds an additional obstacle to the overall mission of maintaining the enduring defeat of Daesh. Multiple confirmed cases of COVID-19 have appeared across countries in the »»»

The United States has deployed Patriot air defense batteries to Iraqi bases to protect American troops recently targeted by Iranian missiles, U.S. and Iraqi military sources told AFP. Washington and Baghdad had been negotiating the placement of the defense system since January, when Tehran fired ba»»»

Kurdish-led forces have successfully put down riots by ISIS militants in a prison in northeast Syria with none of the prisoners escaping the facility, the top commander of the US-backed forces said. Mazloum Abdi of the Syrian Democratic Forces tweeted shortly before midnight on Monday that "we were»»»

At least four batteries of Patriot air defence systems will be assembled at bases across Iraq, US and Iraqi sources say The United States has deployed Patriot air defence systems to an Iraqi military base as a precaution against Iranian-backed militia attacks, US and Iraqi military sources have sai»»»