Iran’s Khamenei Hails Iraq’s ‘success’ Against Jihadists
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday praised the "success" of Iraqi forces in the battle against the Islamic ...
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US-Led Coalition Says Syria Strike Killed ‘top IS Cleric’
The US-led coalition said Tuesday it had killed the Islamic State group's self-proclaimed top cleric in an air strike in ...
Iraqi Forces Advance In Mosul Old City, Rescue Civilians
Iraqi forces said Tuesday they were fighting fierce battles with the Islamic State group and rescuing escaping civilians as they ...
Iraqi Forces Show Strong Stand For IS-Mosul Battle
Iraqi government forces started on Sunday a major operation to enter the last Islamic State (IS) stronghold of the old ...
Iraqis Hunt For Their Cars In Devastated Post-IS Mosul
Saliha Sultan searches in vain for the family car among mounds of charred car skeletons and mangled trucks blocking roads ...
Russia ‘may Have Killed IS Head Baghdadi’
Russia's defence ministry is investigating whether one of its air strikes in Syria killed the leader of the Islamic State ...
Ramadan Comes With Bitter Taste For Families of Iraq’s Mosul
For Umm Mohammed and other residents of areas of war-battered west Mosul recaptured from Islamic State group jihadists, this year's ...
Ramadan Comes With Bitter Taste For Families of Iraq’s Mosul
For Umm Mohammed and other residents of areas of war-battered west Mosul recaptured from Islamic State group jihadists, this year's ...
IS Chemical Attacks Down In Syria
The Islamic State group is launching fewer chemical weapons attacks in Syria as their Iraqi stronghold in Mosul, where the ...
Terrified Civilians Hide From Gunfire In Mosul Pre-School
The bullets of jihadists rain down outside the Mosul kindergarten, where dozens of terrified Iraqi civilians are sheltering from fighting ...
Hundreds Sick, Two Dead In Food Poisoning At Mosul Displaced Camp
A mass food poisoning at a camp for displaced Iraqi civilians outside Mosul has left at least two dead and ...
Journey To Statehood Still Long For Iraq Kurds
Many Iraqi Kurds hailed last week's announcement of a September referendum on independence as historic, but major obstacles will remain ...
Trump Promises Press Conference On Islamic State Fight
US President Donald Trump on Monday promised to reveal details of his long-awaited plan for fighting the Islamic State group, ...
Down To the River For Youths From Iraq’s Embattled Mosul
With bare tree branches as diving boards, they take off and plunge into Iraq's Khazir River, a rare moment of ...
Tired, Traumatised Mosul Mothers Unable To Breastfeed
Wazira rocks her tiny baby pleadingly but he is inconsolable, crying for the milk his mother can neither produce herself ...
Iraqi Girl Reunited With Family 3 Years After IS Abduction
The Ashti camp in Iraq's northern city of Arbil on Saturday celebrated the return of a girl whose abduction by ...
Iraq Paramilitaries Make Fresh Progress West of Mosul
Iraq's paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi forces said Saturday that they had retaken all areas west of Mosul from the Islamic State ...
Suicide Bomber Kills 20 In Market South of Baghdad
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a market in the town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad, on Friday killing ...
Iraq On Cusp of Mosul Victory Three Years After Major Defeat
Three years after the Islamic State group routed them in Mosul, Iraqi forces are now on the cusp of retaking ...
IS Is Reorganizing, Targeting Europe
Despite defeats in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group has reorganized and is now "more focused than ever" on ...