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The strikes were “defensive, proportional and in direct response to the threat posed by Iranian-backed Shia militia groups,” Pentagon officials said on Thursday. (Image credit: Susan Walsh/AP)

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. launched airstrikes Thursday in Iraq, American officials said, targeting the Iranian-backed Shia militia members believed responsible for the rocket attack that killed and wounded American and British troops at a base north of Baghdad. Officials said

As a result of mass deaths from COVID-19, Iran has dug mass graves to bury its citizens — so large they’re visible from space. WAPO

Iran asked the International Monetary Fund for a $5 billion loan to fight the coronavirus, the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that it has sought such assistance, in a staggering admission of how fragile its economy has become

The U.S. said an Iran-backed group was behind a rocket attack that killed two American troops and a British soldier in Iraq, and Pentagon officials said they were studying all possible military responses with the president.