Iraq
U.S. to send more troops to Iraq ahead of Mosul offensive
The United States is stepping up its military campaign against the Islamic State by sending hundreds more troops to assist Iraqi forces in an expected...
Oldest Christian monastery in Iraq is razed by Islamic State
The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State’s relentless destruction of...
U.S. denies conducting special forces helicopter raids in northern Iraq
The U.S. ambassador to Iraq has denied reports that the United States has been carrying out helicopter raids against Islamic State militants in northern...
US-led airstrike ‘kills nine Iraqi soldiers’ in friendly fire incident
An airstrike by the US-led coalition aimed at Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq has killed nine Iraqi soldiers, according to Iraq’s Defence Minister. The...
US-led airstrike may have killed Iraqi soldiers in ‘friendly fire’ incident
An airstrike by the US-led coalition aimed at Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq may have inadvertently killed up to 10 Iraqi soldiers, the US military...
Iraqi officials say Baghdad market bombings kill 26 people
A pair of car bombs exploded Wednesday at crowded popular markets in predominantly Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least...
At least 115 killed in Iraq car bomb attack: officials
A car bomb blast claimed by the Islamic State group ripped through the crowded heart of an Iraqi town north of Baghdad Friday, killing at least 115 people,...
At least 90 killed in Iraq car bomb attack: officials
A car bomb blast claimed by the Islamic State group ripped through the crowded heart of an Iraqi town north of Baghdad Friday, killing at least 90 people,...
More than 100 people killed in Iraq car bomb attack on packed market
More than 100 people have been killed and others wounded in a car bombing north of Baghdad, according to police and medical sources. The attack happened...
At least 35 killed in Iraq car bomb attack: officials
A car bomb blast claimed by the Islamic State group ripped through the crowded heart of an Iraqi town north of Baghdad Friday, killing at least 35 people,...
Iraq claws back land from IS near Ramadi after bloody battle
Iraqi forces retook territory from the Islamic State group east of Ramadi late Saturday night, commanders said, in their first counterattack since the...
Iraq claws back land from IS near Ramadi
Iraqi forces retook territory from the Islamic State group east of Ramadi Saturday, commanders said, in their first counterattack since the jihadists’...
Iraq army ‘driving IS out of the country and winning the battle’
A senior commander in the Iraqi army has revealed they are taking back crucial territory from the Islamic State group in Anbar province. Special forces...
In Iraq, a historic Christian library saved from militants
The Syriac Orthodox Christians of Mar Matti, a monastery that dates back to the 4th century, moved to rescue their centuries-old library of around 80 manuscripts...
12 years after US-led invasion, Iraq re-opens famed national museum
Iraq’s national museum officially reopened on Saturday after 12 years of painstaking efforts during which close to a third of 15,000 pieces looted...
Holy war: Westerners join Iraqi Christian militia to fight Islamic State
Thousands of foreigners have flocked to Iraq and Syria in the past two years, mostly to join the Islamic State, but a handful of idealistic Westerners...
Westerners join Iraqi Christian militia to fight Islamic State
Thousands of foreigners have flocked to Iraq and Syria in the past two years, mostly to join Islamic State, but a handful of idealistic Westerners are...
Suicide bombings, clashes kill 23 in Iraq’s Anbar
Two suicide bombings followed by clashes in Iraq’s Anbar province west of Baghdad killed 23 security personnel on Tuesday, officers and a doctor...
15,000 killed in deadliest year in Iraq since 2007
Violence in Iraq killed more than 15,000 civilians and security personnel in 2014, government figures have shown, making it one of the deadliest years...
Three top Islamic State leaders killed in airstrikes: U.S. officials
Three of Islamic State’s top leaders have been killed in U.S.-led airstrikes against the militant group in Iraq, U.S.
U.S. plans to arm Iraq’s Sunni tribesmen with AK-47s, RPGs, mortars
The United States plans to buy arms for Sunni tribesmen in Iraq, including AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades and mortar rounds, to help bolster the battle...
Iraq forces break jihadist siege of main oil refinery as top U.S. general arrives
Iraqi forces broke a months-long siege by jihadist fighters of the country’s largest oil refinery Saturday as the top US officer flew in to discuss...
Iraqi Prime Minister sacks 26 military commanders following corruption claims
Iraq’s prime minister has dismissed several top military commanders in a move seen as his boldest since he came to office in September.
'New phase': Obama deploys more U.S. troops to Iraq to fight IS
President Barack Obama said Sunday that deploying additional troops to Iraq signals a “new phase” in the fight against the Islamic State group,...
Airstrikes take aim at IS militant leaders on Iraq-Syria border
U.S.-led air strikes on Saturday targeted a gathering of Islamic State (IS) leaders in Iraq in a town near the Syrian border, possibly including the group’s...
U.S. troops in Iraq will double with 1,500 more on the way
President Barack Obama on Friday authorized the U.S. military to deploy up to 1,500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces...
Death toll from Islamic State massacre of Sunni tribe in Anbar surges
Iraqi officials upped the death toll of a massacre of Sunni Arab tribesmen by the self-styled Islamic State today to 322, making it among the largest massacres...
Turkey U-turn as Iraqi Kurds granted access to beseiged town of Kobane
Turkey has given permission for Iraqi Kurdish fighters to reinforce fellow Kurds in the Syrian town of Kobane in a major policy change on Monday.
United Nations: Iraq has executed 60 people this year
Iraqi authorities have executed at least 60 people so far in 2014, a United Nations report said Sunday, expressing concern that “irreversible miscarriages...
Iraq PM to visit Iran for talks on fight against IS
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi is to visit Iran on Monday for talks on Baghdad’s battle against the Islamic State group (IS), which holds swathes...
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