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IRAQ'S PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW LEGALISING SHIA MILITIAS
The Iraqi parliament has passed a bill recognising the Shia militia fighters, the Popular Mobilisation Forces, as a government entity operating alongside the military... READ MORE›
IN SYRIA AND IRAQ, THE ISLAMIC STATE IS IN RETREAT ON MULTIPLE FRONTS
Read more Operation launched against Islamic State near base where U.S. Marine killed Today's coverage from Post correspondents around the world... READ MORE›
U.S. MARINE KILLED IN IRAQ AFTER ROCKET ATTACK
Joshua L. Wheeler, of Roland, Oklahoma, who died in October during a rescue mission in northern Iraq... READ MORE›
IF THIS IRAQI DAM COLLAPSES, HALF A MILLION PEOPLE COULD DIE
Concerns are becoming more acute as Iraqi security forces prepare for an offensive to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State, the adviser said... READ MORE›
IRAQI ARMY RETAKES CONTROL OF OIL REFINERY TOWN AS KURDS STAND FIRM AGAINST OVERSTRETCHED ISLAMIC STATE
A shattered 120mm artillery piece, captured by Isis from the Iraqi army but later destroyed by US bombers, lies abandoned near the town's main grain silo... READ MORE›
A U.S. MARINE IS KILLED IN IRAQ, THE SECOND COMBAT CASUALTY OF THE ISIS WAR
She has spent more than 15 years covering the Middle East, including the Iraq war... READ MORE›
ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE WAR AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE, A TANGLED WEB
It also puts the fighters three miles closer to Fallujah, the first Iraqi town to be captured by the Islamic State nearly two years ago... READ MORE›
THIRD U.S. COMBAT DEATH COMES AS AMERICAN TROOPS EDGE CLOSER TO THE FRONT LINES IN IRAQ
An Iraqi army soldier stands by the decomposing body of an Islamic State militant killed in battle days before in Kharbadan last month... READ MORE›
AMERICAN KILLED IN COMBAT IN IRAQ
Joshua Wheeler died assisting Kurdish forces on an Islamic State prison near the Iraqi city of Hawija... READ MORE›
AFTER MORE THAN $1.6 BILLION IN U.S. AID, IRAQ'S ARMY STILL STRUGGLES
An Iraqi army soldier drives a Humvee in the outskirts of the town of Kabrouk, Iraq, in May ... READ MORE›
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: ISIL STEPS UP CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACKS ON KURDS IN IRAQ
Kurdish Cmdr. Mahadi Younis said he believed the weapons were manufactured in nearby Mosul, the Islamic State's stronghold in Iraq... READ MORE›
WAVE OF SUSPECTED ISIL ATTACKS KILL AT LEAST 60 IN IRAQ
Thirteen other members of the security forces were killed in an attack on a military barracks east of Fallujah... READ MORE›
US SERVICEMAN KILLED IN IRAQ AS IS BREACHES PESHMERGA LINES
A US serviceman has been killed in northern Iraq, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has said... READ MORE›
U.S. VOLUNTEERS SEEK ADVENTURE FIGHTING ISLAMIC STATE ALONGSIDE KURDS
I don't really have a timeframe, he said during a recent overnight watch duty less than a kilometer from Islamic State positions... READ MORE›
IRAQI KURDS SAY ISLAMIC STATE ATTACKED THEM WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Chlorine's use as a weapon is prohibited under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention... READ MORE›
AMERICAN SOLDIER KILLED BY 'INDIRECT FIRE' NEAR ISIS STRONGHOLD OF MOSUL IN IRAQ
On Thursday, Putin said Moscow would keep enough forces in Syria to continue the fight against Isis, the Nusra Front and other extremist organizations... READ MORE›
IRAQ ARMY'S MOSUL OFFENSIVE STALLS IN FACE OF FIERCE FIGHTING, DESERTIONS
MAKHMOUR, Iraq -- The Iraqi army soldiers smoked nervously as they described their ordeal... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES GAIN GROUND AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE SOUTH OF MOSUL
Since then, Iraqi forces have made modest gains, capturing a handful of villages on the eastern bank of the river Tigris... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE SEEKS NEWS BLACKOUT IN MOSUL AS IRAQI ARMY NEARS
The Iraqi government waded into the media battle about three months ago with a radio station broadcasting from a concrete shelter at the Makhmour army base... READ MORE›
IRAQ'S HUMANITARIAN WORKERS BRACE FOR MOSUL INFLUX
Kurdish officials have cited security concerns as a reason for keeping some displaced people outside of Kurdish areas... READ MORE›
IRAQ ANNOUNCES START OF OPERATION TO RETAKE MOSUL FROM ISIL
Iraqi forces have begun assembling several thousand troops in Makhmour, though many more will be needed to drive the militants from Mosul... READ MORE›
IRAQI ARMY BEGINS MOSUL OFFENSIVE AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE
The Iraqi military statement named the villages recaptured as al-Nasr, Garmandi, Kudila and Khurburdan... READ MORE›
IRAQ SAYS ISLAMIC STATE CONTROL SHRINKS TO 14 PERCENT OF ITS TERRITORY
After occupying 40 percent of Iraqi territory, now only 14 percent remains, government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi said in a televised statement, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State... READ MORE›
IRAQI ARMY HAS BEEN 'CRUSHING' ISIS, CANADIAN GENERAL SAYS
The Iraqi forces, notwithstanding perhaps somewhat of a poor brand based on how activities occurred in 2014, are quite honestly taking it to Daesh... READ MORE›
TURKISH SOLDIER KILLED IN NORTHERN IRAQ AFTER ISLAMIC STATE FIRES ROCKETS
Islamic State targets identified in the region have been shot back at, the Turkish military said in a statement... READ MORE›
PENTAGON INCREASES US TROOPS AND FINANCIAL AID IN FIGHT AGAINST ISIS
US special forces operating with Kurdish commandos rescued 69 Iraqis in an October raid in the northern city of Hawija, in which one US soldier was killed... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES MAKE SLOW PROGRESS SOUTH OF MOSUL
Both Najat Ali, the peshmerga commander, and the Iraqi army source said the militants had used suicide car bombs... READ MORE›
U.S. SUSPECTS ISLAMIC STATE USED CHEMICAL AGENT AGAINST KURDS IN IRAQ
The United States is investigating whether the Islamic State used chemical weapons, the White House said Thursday, following allegations that the group's m... READ MORE›
ISIL CHEMICAL ATTACKS 'EXPECTED' AS MOSUL BATTLE NEARS
Kurdish forces say they fear an increase in ISIL's chemical attacks to weaken the frontlines as Mosul offensive looms... READ MORE›
NEXT ISIS ATTACK? SYRIAN KURDISH OFFICIALS WARN OF ISLAMIC STATE TERROR THREATS FOR NEW YEAR'S HOLIDAY
Since the Kurds aligned themselves against Assad in the bloody armed conflict, they were stripped of their Syrian citizenship... READ MORE›