Iraq

Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was freed from captivity, revealed in an interview how she used her captors’ carelessness to gather sensitive intelligence about them. After her release, the information she passed to the FBI helped strengthen the case against a senior Iraqi *Kataib Hezbollah* figure accused, among other things, of involvement in an attempted assassination plot against President Donald Trump.

According to a report in The New York Times, alongside a base that had already been exposed, Israel established another base deep in Iraq’s desert. The report says the United States knew about the move, but deliberately concealed the presence of Israeli forces on Iraqi soil from Iraq.

Four detained and two escaped after a May 1 attempt on Bubiyan Island near Iraq and Iran; Tehran has not responded, Kuwait says.

Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq move forces toward the border as rumors of a U.S.-backed incursion rise

Disguised at times as a sheikh, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Gabay recounts his daring journeys through hostile Muslim countries, admitting, “I’m not even sure I should be telling this story.”

With help from U.S. soldiers, Dr. Nissan Sharifi brought an ancient Torah scroll from Baghdad to safety in a Netanya synagogue