Iraq

The bill, passed by the Iraqi parliament this week, also threatens transgender people with up to 3 years in prison.

Umm Fahad made content deemed “obscene” by the Iraqi government, and she is at least the second social media personality to be shot in a targeted killing in the last year.

Multiple reports said the U.S. was informed of the attack in advance, but did not give it the “green light.”

Hareer Hussein Kamel has posted laudatory messages about her late grandfather on Instagram, despite his history of war crimes.

The senior militant led Kataib Hezbollah, a group linked to the deaths of three American service members killed in Jordan last month.

After claiming last week that they’d issued a heads-up that retaliatory strikes were incoming, the U.S. government now says that they only informed Iraq after the fact.

The United States has launched strikes against Iranian targets in Iraq and Syria in response to the deadly drone attack in Jordan that killed three U.S. troops last weekend.