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Iraq’s Defense Minister Receives Italian Counterpart
2024-12-24 Read More...
The Italian Defense Minister, Guido Crosetto, arrived Saturday to Baghdad on an official visit to Iraq and Kurdistan

Iraq’s Minister of Defense Inspects Reconstruction Stages at Military College
2024-10-24 Read More...
Iraq’s Minister of Defense, Mr. Thabet Mohammed Al-Abbasi, visited last week the headquarters of the Military College (Heroes Factory) in Rustumiyah, the Ministry said in a

Iraq’s Prime Minister Inaugurates Four Defence Production Plants
2024-07-23 Read More...
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al-Sudani inaugurated Saturday several defence production factories and rehabilitation facilities at the State Company for Military Industries within the industrial complex of the Defence Industries Commission in

Iraqi Denies Purchase of JF-17 Thunder Fighter Jets from Pakistan
2023-07-16 Read More...
Iraq will not be engaging Pakistan in the purchase of JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft, the Iraqi Air Force has

Iraq’s Defense Minister Receives Commander of Lebanese Armed Forces
2022-10-13 Read More...
Iraq’s Defense Minister Jomaa Enad received, on Wednesday, the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, General Joseph Aoun, at the Ministry’s headquarters,” the Ministry said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency

Navistar Defense to Provide MilCOTS Vehicles to Iraq
2022-03-23 Read More...
The Army Contracting Command - Detroit Arsenal (ACC-DTA) awarded Navistar Defense, LLC (Navistar Defense) a Five-Year Requirements Contract in support of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) for the Government of Iraq

Saudi Deputy Minister of Defense Visits Iraq
2021-05-13 Read More...
Prince Khaild bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Minister of Defense, has visited on Tuesday the Republic of Iraq and met with the Heads of the three Presidencies and the Iraqi Defense

Saudi Chief of General Staff Meets Senior Iraqi Defense Officials
2021-03-04 Read More...
Saudi Arabia’s Chief of the General Staff, Lt. General Fayyad bin Hamid Al-Ruwaili paid an official visit to Iraq Tuesday where he met with senior defense officials and paid get-acquainted visits to a number of defense

Iraq Unveils T-55 Al-Kafil-1 Main Battle Tank
2020-07-16 Read More...
Caesar @Ninja998998’s Twitter account shows a piece of information based on @AndreiBtvt’s Twitter account revealing the existence of a new Main Battle Tank (MBT) manufactured in Iraq and designated T-55

General Dynamics to Provide Logistics Support, Training to Iraqi Army
2020-06-03 Read More...
General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $7,746,408 modification (P00018) to contract W56HZV-17-C-0026 to provide logistics support and training services to the Iraqi Army, the U.S. Department of Defense announced on

U.S. Defense Secretary Concludes Visit to Iraq
2019-10-25 Read More...
Iraq on Wednesday rejected any long-term presence of U.S. forces that have crossed its border during a retreat from northern Syria, after visiting Defense Secretary Mark Esper initially indicated the troops would remain, Reuters

Iraq Denies Arrival of New U.S. Soldiers to Al Asad Air Base
2019-07-09 Read More...
An Iraqi operations command denied on Saturday news reports about the deployment of more U.S. soldiers at the Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar

Iraq Appoints New Defense, Interior Ministers
2019-06-26 Read More...
The Iraqi parliament approved on Monday three more Ministers in Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s cabinet following several months of political

New Zealand to Withdraw All Troops from Iraq by June 2020
2019-06-13 Read More...
New Zealand announced it would withdraw all of its troops from Iraq by June 2020 following the defeat of the Islamic State militant

Germany, Holland Suspend Military Training Operations in Iraq
2019-05-17 Read More...
Germany and the Netherlands (Holland) said on Wednesday they were suspending military training operations in Iraq as the United States warned of increased threats from Iran-backed forces amid an escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran,

Iraq Receives All 36 F-16IQ Fighting Falcon Jets
2019-05-10 Read More...
Iraq has received all of Lockheed Martin’s F-16IQ Fighting Falcon combat aircraft, with the last 9 of 36 aircraft delivered to Balad Airbase, north of Baghdad, on 3 May, Jane’s

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