Topic: Camp Ashraf

Four Iranian exiles have filed a complaint in US court against senior Iranian and Iraqi officials for their alleged role in an April attack on Camp Ashraf, a site for Iranian dissidents in Iraq.The Iranians, three of whom received political asylum in ...

Details of Attack on Camp Ashraf Unveiled

Stop Fundamentalism, 19 April, 2011, Paris- According to documents, commander of the Iraqi Army’s 5th Division issued a classified order on April 8th describing Ashraf residents as the enemy, assigning five battalions of his division to use force in occupying various sections ...

Iraqi army bars burials at Iran rebel camp

Iraq-based Iranian rebels who lost 34 members in a clash with the Iraqi army this month were barred from burying the dead at a cemetery inside their base, spokesmen for both sides said on Sunday.The People's Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI) wanted to ...
Last week's deadly Iraqi raid on an Iranian opposition base inside its territory signals the growing influence of neighbouring Iran, as US forces prepare to withdraw at the end of this year."Baghdad has no interest in taking a hostile attitude toward Iran, ...
Iraqi authorities have released 36 Iranian dissidents who had been imprisoned for months, were on hunger strike for weeks and also lately refused water, a spokesman for the prisoners said on Wednesday.The members of the People's Mujahedeen, an exiled opposition group, were ...
Amnesty International on Thursday called for a probe into " apparent excessive use of force" by Iraqi forces when they stormed a camp housing Iran's main exiled opposition.Hundreds were wounded in two days of violence but Iraqi police said on Thursday that ...

US 'monitoring' Iraqi actions at Iranian camp

The United States is " "We've seen these media reports and we're looking into them," spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday, as scores of members of the People's Mujahedeen were reported hurt when Iraqi soldiers and police stormed Camp Ashraf, near Baghdad. "The ...
Iraqi soldiers and riot police stormed a camp housing Iran's main exiled opposition on Tuesday, triggering violent clashes that left at least 260 people wounded.The seizure of Camp Ashraf, which was disarmed by the United States in 2003 and surrounded by American ...

Iraqi army storms Iranian opposition camp

The Iraqi army seized control on Tuesday of the main base for Iran's main armed opposition in exile after months of a tense standoff, military officials said.The storming of Camp Ashraf, which was disarmed by the United States in 2003 and surrounded ...