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'A MOST TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE' - IRISH BACKPACKERS TRAVEL TO IRAQ BORDER WITH FREEDOM FIGHTERS BATTLING ISIS
Will, from Blanchardstown, told Independent.ie that they wanted to experience what life in Kurdistan regions was like... READ MORE›
IRAQ BOMB KILLS DOZENS RETURNING FROM RELIGIOUS CEREMONY
There has been an uptick in suicide and car bombings since Iraqi security forces launched an operation toA drive ISILA extremists from Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city... READ MORE›
JAPANESE REPORTER DETAINED IN IRAQ TO BE RELEASED SOON, KURDISH MEDIA SAYS
Journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka, who has been detained by local authorities in Iraq while covering the battle to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, is... READ MORE›
IRAN-TRAINED MILITIAS JOIN U.S-BACKED CAMPAIGN ON MOSUL, FLYING SHI'ITE FLAGS
But Amnesty International says that in previous campaigns, the Shi'ite militias have committed serious human rights violations, including war crimes against civilians fleeing Islamic State-held territory... READ MORE›
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AMID SYRIAN CHAOS, IRAN'S GAME PLAN EMERGES
It was taken by militias along with Iraqi forces on 22 September, delivering another blow to the terrorist group and an important boost to Iran's ambitions... READ MORE›
IRAN'S AIR FORCE BOMBS ISIS IN IRAQ, SAYS PENTAGON
Washington and Tehran deny coordination as part of US-led coalition against Islamic State... READ MORE›
DAVID CAMERON TO DELAY PUBLICATION OF IRAQ WAR INQUIRY UNTIL AFTER EU REFERENDUM
It is beyond appalling that the Government should casually extend their misery further by delaying the publication of the Chilcot report... READ MORE›
ISIS KILLS HUNDREDS OF IRAQI SUNNIS FROM ALBU NIMR TRIBE IN ANBAR PROVINCE
Iraqi officials are trying to raise a national guard that would be led by Sunni tribal leaders and partnered with the beleaguered national army... READ MORE›
BEN CARSON'S REMARKABLE GIBBERISH ON SYRIA AND IRAQ, EXPLAINED
This makes a bit of sense The Islamic State defines itself as a caliphate, so if you destroy it, then presumably you have destroyed the group... READ MORE›
US CONFERRED WITH IRAN BEFORE IRAQ INVASION BOOK SAYS
After being named ambassador to Iraq in 2005, Mr. Khalilzad continued to argue privately for opening a channel to Iran... READ MORE›
INSIDE LOOK AT U.S.-LED COALITION'S DEADLIEST SINGLE ATTACK ON ISIL
That same evening, the coalition began getting reports of another large Islamic State convoy forming in Albu Bali, a village northwest of Fallujah... READ MORE›
IRAQ USING INFO FROM NEW INTELLIGENCE CENTER TO BOMB ISLAMIC STATE
Iranian military advisers help direct Baghdad's campaign against Islamic State, which aims to expand its self-proclaimed caliphate in the Middle East... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE KILLS 85 MORE MEMBERS OF IRAQI TRIBE
Albu Nimr had held out for weeks under siege by Islamic State, but finally ran low on ammunition, fuel and food... READ MORE›
IRAQI SHI'ITE MILITIAS PLEDGE TO FIGHT U.S. FORCES IF DEPLOYED
Forces deployed in the country after the United States said it was sending an elite special unit to help combat Islamic State... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE SUICIDE BOMBERS STRIKE IN IRAQI REFINERY TOWN
Islamic State fighters are still holding positions in three neighborhoods in Baiji and they are still receiving reinforcements, said one of the army colonels... READ MORE›
CAR BOMB IN BAGHDAD'S SADR CITY KILLS 16, SOURCES SAY
BAGHDAD A car bomb in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood killed at least 16 people on Wednesday and wounded more than 40 others, Iraqi police and hospital sources said... READ MORE›
IRAN ONCE QUIET ON CASUALTIES NOW GLORIFIES THEM
But most of Mr. Shemshadi's posts concern the increasing number of Iranian casualties in Syria and Iraq... READ MORE›
SHIA LEADERS IN TWO COUNTRIES STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OVER IRAQI STATE
Iraq's revered ayatollah Ali Sistani is pitched against Iran's ayatollah Ali Khamenei in battle for influence... READ MORE›
ISIL ATTACK NORTH OF BAGHDAD KILLS AT LEAST 11
Iraq ISIL attack north of Baghdad kills at least 11... READ MORE›
SCALE OF 'WORLD'S BIGGEST' CEMETERY IN IRAQ REVEALED IN BREATHTAKING DRONE VIDEO
Translated as the a??Valley of Peacea??, the graveyard is an Islamic cemetery located in the city of Najaf, Iraq... READ MORE›
SCALE OF 'WORLD'S BIGGEST' CEMETERY IN IRAQ REVEALED IN BREATHTAKING DRONE VIDEO
Translated as the a??Valley of Peacea??, the graveyard is an Islamic cemetery located in the city of Najaf, Iraq... READ MORE›
TWO SUICIDE BOMBERS KILL 15 AT SHI'ITE MOSQUE IN BAGHDAD
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 15 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants... READ MORE›
IRAQ'S SHI'ITE RIVALRIES RISK TURNING VIOLENT, WEAKENING WAR ON ISLAMIC STATE
After a string of deadly bombings in Baghdad last week claimed by Islamic State, politicians from Badr and Sadr's bloc accused each other of complicity... READ MORE›
BLAST IN NORTHWEST BAGHDAD CLAIMED BY ISLAMIC STATE KILLS SIX
Amaq, a news agency that supports Islamic State, said a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest had targeted security forces at the entrance to the Khadimiya neighborhood... READ MORE›
TURKEY PREPARED TO 'TAKE MEASURES' IN IRAQ, PM YILDIRIM SAYS
Yildirim, speaking to a group of reporters, also said Turkey could not remain idle over the situation in Iraq, given its 350-km (220-mile) border with the country... READ MORE›
IRAN'S PRESIDENT SAYS SAUDI ARABIA CAN'T HIDE 'CRIME' BY CUTTING DIPLOMATIC TIES
Iran's president says Saudi Arabia cannot cover its crime in executing a Shia cleric by severing ties with the Islamic Republic... READ MORE›
IRAQ: ISLAMIC STATE TRUCK BOMB KILLS SCORES IN BAGHDAD MARKET
Security forces and militia groups are fighting Islamic State in Anbar province, the sprawling Sunni heartland in western Iraq... READ MORE›
IRAN'S PRESIDENT IS GETTING FED UP WITH COUNTRY'S 'MORALITY POLICE'
The morality police have long irked young Tehranis, who have just gained a new and powerful ally Iranian President Hassan Rouhani... READ MORE›
FORGOTTEN YAZIDIS: SHOULD CANADA BE DOING MORE TO HELP? | TORONTO STAR
Yazidi advocates are frustrated by the Liberal government's failure to admit more Yazidis as refugees... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE TARGETS SHIITE PILGRIMS IN IRAQ, BUT DETONATES TRUCK BOMB IN A MARKET INSTEAD
The Islamic State claimed it had killed nearly 100... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE'S NO. 2 HAJI MUTAZZ REPORTED KILLED BY DRONE STRIKE IN IRAQ
2 leader of the Islamic State militant group was killed in a US drone strike near Mosul, Iraq, this week, CNN reported earlier on Friday... READ MORE›
BOMB ATTACKS AT SWIMMING POOL IN NORTHERN
The attacks in the town of Tuz Khurmatu about 175 km north of the capital Baghdad left 45 others wounded... READ MORE›
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AS OBAMA LEAVES THE WORLD STAGE
A front-page headline in Israel's most widely circulated daily, Israel Hayom, summed up the feeling Barack Obama, the worst U.S. president in history... READ MORE›
US AND CANADA PREVENT OIL DRILLING IN ARCTIC WATERS
Trump picked a renowned climate change denier and fossil fuel industry defender last week as his top environmental official... READ MORE›
OBAMA SAYS MOSUL CAN BE TAKEN QUICKLY, PLANS TO STRATEGIZE WITH IRAQI LEADER
President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will strategize about the upcoming offensive to take back the northern city of Mosul when t... READ MORE›
BARACK OBAMA SAYS 'AMERICA IS NOT AS DIVIDED AS SOME HAVE SUGGESTED' IN THE WAKE OF DALLAS POLICE SHOOTINGS
The black community is much closer to the police than in other cities... READ MORE›
OSCAR PISTORIUS SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS JAIL FOR REEVA STEENKAMP MURDER
Pistorius was found guilty of murdering Steenkamp by an appeals court last December... READ MORE›
MCCAIN: OBAMA 'DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE' FOR ORLANDO SHOOTING
So the responsibility for it lies with President Barack Obama and his failed policies, McCain said... READ MORE›
MERKEL, OBAMA SAY EU-U.S. FREE-TRADE DEAL WOULD BENEFIT BOTH SIDES
Merkel is expected to discuss the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP with Obama when he visits a trade show in Hanover on Sunday and Monday... READ MORE›
OBAMA TO VISIT SAUDI ARABIA FOR DEFENCE TALKS
Obama plans to also discuss Afghanistan and Russian moves in Ukraine with Cameron and Merkel, the White House officials said... READ MORE›
OBAMA NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT LIVE STREAM
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with French President Francois Hollande R at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., March 31, 2016... READ MORE›
SOLDIERS FIGHT TO STOP ISIL'S EXPANSION IN LIBYA
01 36 AP exclusive video shows Iraqi security forces liberating the Islamic State group stronghold of Tikrit Wednesday... READ MORE›
U.S.-LED COALITION SEES FEWER FIGHTERS, LOWER PAY IN ISLAMIC STATE
We see them in a defensive crouch, Warren told reporters in London, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE GROUP MEMBER WHO TOOK PART IN BEHEADINGS IDENTIFIED, REPORTS SAY
Media reports say Alexanda Kotey was part of group that killed journalists, aid worker, other hostages... READ MORE›