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  • U.S. officials respond to Iran's missile attack on two American air bases in Iraq

    January 8, 2020 6:14 AM

    U.S. officials have been responding to Iran's missile attack on two air bases housing U.S. forces in Iraq. On Tuesday afternoon (CST), after 22 ballistic missiles were fired on bases in Irbil and Al Asad, where Americans were housed in bunkers, President Trump responded by encouraging Americans that "all... more »
  • U.S. State Department urges citizens to leave Iraq immediately

    January 3, 2020 8:16 AM

    The State Department is urging U.S. citizens to leave Iraq immediately. This announcement comes after President Trump ordered the airstrike that killed Iranian military leader, Qasem Soleimani, Thursday . The State Department tweeted, "Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region, we urge U.S. citizens to depart... more »
  • Protesters withdraw from U.S. embassy in Baghdad

    January 1, 2020 11:48 AM

    BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Protesters who've been demonstrating outside the U.S. embassy in Iraq have started to withdraw. On Tuesday, a tense standoff began as a crowd of demonstrators, protesting the deaths of militia members in U.S. airstrikes, began shouting and hurling stones at the embassy. BBC World News... more »
  • At least 348 killed, thousands injured in earthquake near Iran-Iraq border

    November 13, 2017 8:49 AM

    At least 348 people were killed and over 6,000 injured in Iran in a powerful earthquake that struck the Iran-Iraq border region Sunday, Iran's state-run news agency reports. ABC News reports that Iranian state television said at least 341 deaths and more than 5,900 people injured. Officials in Iraq... more »
  • Catholic charities welcome Iraqi refugee family to Baton Rouge

    February 11, 2017 6:59 PM

    BATON ROUGE - Catholic Charities and volunteers from St. Aloysius Catholic Church were on hand Saturday afternoon to greet an Iraqi family of five as they arrived at the Baton Rouge airport. They join other family members CCDBR resettled last year. The family initially fled to Turkey after... more »
  • Lafourche Parish Council stands with Jindal on blocking refugees

    November 26, 2015 5:21 PM

    LAFOURCHE PARISH - The Lafourche Parish Council is standing with the state congressional delegation and more than half of U.S. governors in asking the president to halt the acceptance of Syrian refugees into the country. The council approved a resolution in a 6-3 vote Tuesday requesting that President Obama... more »

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