Tag: iraq

Yemen's war has claimed thousands of lives and pushed millions to the brink of famine. Now the conflict threatens to ...

It was the second deadliest conflict in the world last year, but it hardly registered in the international headlines. As ...

King Abdullah II of Jordan, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou are among leaders invited by Saudi King ...

German police have arrested a second soldier over a far-right plot to assassinate politicians and blame it on migrants. The ...

Thirty-four people have died of cholera-related causes and more than 2,000 have been taken ill in less than two weeks ...

Armed men have kidnapped seven young Iraqi anti-corruption activists in central Baghdad, security sources and a civil society leader said ...

Iraqi forces announced on Tuesday they had retaken yet another neighbourhood of western Mosul, tightening the noose around jihadists holed ...

Key members of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria meet in Copenhagen on Tuesday ...

The final proposals for a planned troop increase in Afghanistan are expected to cross President Donald Trump's desk this week. ...

The United States is closely examining whether a Russia-brokered deal to establish safe zones in Syria can work in the ...

President Donald Trump's amended travel ban will face a key test on Monday, when a US appeals court is set ...

The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan -- believed to be the mastermind behind several high-profile attacks including an assault ...

The head of ISIL in Afghanistan was killed in an operation led by Afghan Special Forces in the eastern province ...

At least 570 suspected cases of cholera have surfaced in war-torn Yemen in the past three weeks, sparking fears of ...

Dozens of Islamic State group fighters cornered in a northern part of Syria's Tabqa are holding off US-backed forces that ...

The first blast came from a package that was being delivered by a man on a motorcycle At least two ...

Two years on from the corruption crisis which consumed FIFA, football's governing body meets for its latest annual Congress in ...

Several plumes of smoke rise above Iraq's main Christian town Qaraqosh, but this time it isn't the Islamic State jihadist ...

The campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron says it has been the target of a "massive hacking attack" after ...

A 21-year-old from northern Ghana was last year stopped from joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the ...