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  1. 3 days ago · The Iraqi Air Force (IQAF or IrAF) (Arabic: القوات الجوية العراقية, romanized: Al Quwwat al Jawwiyah al Iraqiyyah) is the aerial warfare service branch of the Iraqi Armed Forces. It is responsible for the defense of Iraqi airspace as well as the policing of its international borders.

  2. 2 days ago · The Houthis in Yemen and the Iran-backed Iraqi militias that operate under the banner of the self-styled Islamic Resistance of Iraq, ... its air force to launch occasional strikes in response. ...

  3. 6 days ago · The Iraqi air force consisted of some 40,000 personnel and 689 combat aircraft. Both the army and air force had extensive combat experience from the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88), including the large-scale use of chemical weapons.

  4. 5 days ago · For years, Iraqi officials have periodically called for a withdrawal of coalition forces, and formal talks to wind down the U.S. presence in the country have been going on for months.ar.

  5. Sep 14, 2024 · Iraq War, conflict in Iraq (2003–11) that consisted of two phases: a conventionally fought war in March–April 2003, in which a combined force of troops primarily from the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq and defeated Iraqi military forces, and a second phase consisting of a U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.

  6. 5 days ago · Updated 2:39 PM PDT, September 27, 2024. WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced an agreement with the Iraqi government Friday to wrap up the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by next year, with U.S. troops departing some bases that they have long occupied during a two-decade-long military ...

  7. 5 days ago · Soldiers disembark from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq in July 2023. Army photo by Spc. Timothy VanDusen. The U.S. government’s plan to transition to a new bilateral ...