After weeks of strategic silence, Iraqi resistance group Kata’ib Hezbollah has made its position clear on key national security issues, warning that delay in expelling US forces would open the gates of hell.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 2:00 GMT on February 12, 2024.

Nujaba says it will ramp up pressure on US forces despite withdrawal talks between Baghdad and Washington.

The Ain al-Asad air base housing US troops in Iraq has reportedly come under a fresh drone attack amid reports that suggest Washington is mulling troops' withdrawal from Iraq.

A major Iraqi anti-terror group says it will continue its “painful” attacks on American forces until the occupation troops are expelled from the region.

The Iraqi premier says Washington’s military actions in the Arab country are destabilizing.

Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi says “escape” is the ultimate fate of US occupation forces in Syria and Iraq, as it was the case in Afghanistan.