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Mr. Carter is in Iraq to meet with Iraqi leaders and military commanders The US defence secretary has arrived on ...

Fighters from the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group have attacked government buildings in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing at ...

European Union leaders warned Russia at a summit on Thursday that they will consider sanctions over its role in the ...

Several Nigerian soldiers are missing following an attack by suspected militant Islamists on their positions near the border with Niger, ...

Some 900 people have fled the Iraqi city of Mosul and crossed the border into Syria, the UN refugee agency ...

The fight in Mosul is projected to last 60 days The battle to recapture Mosul from ISIS could take two ...

Kurdish forces are rolling in from the east The EU should be prepared for returning jihadists if the so-called Islamic ...

Iraqi pro-government forces have made gains at the start of a large-scale operation to retake Mosul, the last major stronghold ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of military operations to liberate the northern city of Mosul from Islamic ...

ISIS in hot water as battle for Mosul begins The offensive to liberate Mosul from ISIS control has begun, Iraqi ...

The Iraqi Air Force dropped thousands of leaflets over Mosul on Saturday night to warn residents of a looming offensive ...

The Saudi-led coalition bombing Houthi rebels in Yemen has said it attacked a funeral hall in the capital, Sanaa, based ...

The Gulf of Guinea has become the new hub for African piracy. An international summit in Lome, Togo is looking ...

Two missiles were fired at a US warship from rebel-held territory in Yemen as it passed through the Red Sea ...

The funeral was being held for the father of the interior minister A Saudi-led coalition air strike has hit a ...

Mogadishu (AFP) - Heavily-armed Shabaab fighters seized control of a Somali town near the Kenyan border on Friday after an ...

ISIS is facing a ‘state of collapse’ in its largest city Military vehicles of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces are seen ...

Every effort must be made to stop the legal system being abused over allegations of serious misconduct by UK troops, ...

Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, has told western leaders that shutting their doors to migrants who seek entry into their ...

Islamic State militants may have fired a chemical rocket at American troops based in Iraq, the US military says. A ...