The US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh terror group in Iraq is reportedly preparing to evacuate troops from a military base in the city of Abu Gharib, west of the capital Baghdad.

A senior member of Iraqi movement Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq - an offshoot of the Popular Mobilization Units or Hashd al-Shaabi - warned that the US is working on a long-term plan to stabilize its military presence in Iraq.

The US-led military coalition purportedly formed to fight the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has officially handed over a strategic air base in Iraq’s western province of Anbar to the country’s government forces.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message referred to the US' background of sabotage and assassinations and warned Americans to stop aiding war crimes.

The anti-terror Iraqi resistance group Kata’ib Hezbollah has held a military drill, dubbed ‘Hunting the Crow’, to prepare itself for battling occupying US troops after suspicious American activities recently.

An Iraqi security source says the US-led military coalition purportedly formed to fight the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh has handed over a strategic air base in the northern province of Nineveh to the Arab country’s military.

US troops are planning to withdraw from two bases in Iraq’s northern provinces of Kirkuk and Nineveh, an Iraqi military source says, only a few days after forces from the US-led military coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group pulled out from a base on the Iraq-Syria border.

In a televised message addressed to the Iranian nation to congratulate Nowruz and the beginning of the year 1398 in the Solar Hijri calendar, President stated, "It is unity, integrity and ethics that can create a good future for us".

Iran's President described year 1398 as the year of honour for the great Iranian nation and the year of economy without relying on oil, saying, "The government is doing its best to ease the enemies' economic pressures on the people".

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said that it seems that there is a link between the plan of the assassination of Lt. Gen. Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the US claim regarding the attack on Camp Taji.

Two Americans and a British personnel are killed after over a dozen Katyusha rockets hit a military base housing American troops near the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a report says.

As the Secretary-General of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said in a tweet that the blood of the Martyrs Lt. Gen Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis ensures and guarantees the 'unbreakable bond' between the Iranian and Iraqi nations.

A petition that Iranian people have signed against the US after the American assassination of top commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani was submitted to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced recent remarks by US President Donald Trump about US’ purported counterterrorism efforts, stressing that Lt. General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by Washington, was the Daesh terror group’s “number one enemy”.

Stating that Phase 1 of the Tehran-North Freeway has been built during sanctions by Iranian engineers, President said, "We are proud of our engineers, workers and managers”.