Tag: iraq

The migrants pouring into Europe have changed routes: the crossing between Turkey and Greece is practically closed, but ever greater ...

A spokesman for the Islamic State group praised jihadist attacks in the Philippines and Iran, in an audio recording broadcast ...

Many Iraqi Kurds hailed last week's announcement of a September referendum on independence as historic, but major obstacles will remain ...

Iraqi Christians in the US are expressing alarm over the arrests of Chaldean immigrants in the Detroit area for deportation ...

US President Donald Trump on Monday promised to reveal details of his long-awaited plan for fighting the Islamic State group, ...

A 22-year-old Singaporean woman who was planning to go to Syria with her child and marry an Islamic State fighter ...

With bare tree branches as diving boards, they take off and plunge into Iraq's Khazir River, a rare moment of ...

Iran has tracked down and killed several suspected jihadists including the alleged mastermind of twin attacks in Tehran last week, ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will on Monday meet African leaders in Berlin on initiatives aiming to reduce the poverty and ...

A Kuwaiti court on Sunday sentenced a professed member of the Islamic State group to life in prison for an ...

Jordanian border guards have killed five people as they approached the country's border from war-torn Syria, the army said on ...

US-backed Syrian fighters said they had seized a second district of Raqa on Sunday and launched a renewed assault on ...

US-backed Syrian fighters captured their first western district of the Islamic State group's bastion Raqa on Sunday, days after seizing ...

US-backed fighters battled on Sunday to dislodge jihadists from a key military base north of Raqa city, the heart of ...

Wazira rocks her tiny baby pleadingly but he is inconsolable, crying for the milk his mother can neither produce herself ...

The Ashti camp in Iraq's northern city of Arbil on Saturday celebrated the return of a girl whose abduction by ...

An Algerian man who attacked a policeman with a hammer outside Notre Dame cathedral was a loner with a deep ...

Iraq's paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi forces said Saturday that they had retaken all areas west of Mosul from the Islamic State ...

Iran voiced its opposition on Saturday to an announcement by Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region that it will organise a vote ...

Syrian pro-government forces now hold more than a fifth of the country's strategic desert, the army said Saturday, after reaching ...