ISIS ENSHRINES A THEOLOGY OF RAPE

Continue reading the main story Calculated Conquest The Islamic State's formal introduction of systematic sexual slavery dates to Aug... READ MORE›

ISIS PUSHES BIRTH CONTROL TO MAINTAIN SEX-SLAVE SUPPLY

In its own manual, the Islamic State outlines the abstinence method as one option... READ MORE›

DOZENS OF YAZIDIS ENSLAVED BY IS IN IRAQ NOW FREE

Kurdish Peshmerga forces regained control in 2015 but many Yazidis were held captive by IS elsewhere as the group took over large swathes of northern Iraq... READ MORE›

ANIMAL THERAPY COMFORTS TRAUMATISED IRAQI CHILDREN

Animals can help the children psychologically various research has shown this, and it is certainly applicable to children affected by the wars in Iraq and Syria... READ MORE›

KRG: MOSUL VICTORY DEPENDS ON ISIL FIGHTERS' MORALE

Al Jazeera There is an ongoing dispute between Baghdad and Ankara over Mosul... READ MORE›

THE ISLAMIC STATE'S HORRIFYING PRACTICE OF SEX SLAVERY, EXPLAINED

The islamic state's horrifying practice of sex slavery explained... READ MORE›

IRAQ: SCORES KILLED IN PETROL STATION HILLA ATTACK

Fighters claim responsibility for blast targeting Shia Muslims returning from Arbaeen pilgrimage in city of Karbala... READ MORE›

ISIS HELD US AID WORKER AS SEX SLAVE BEFORE DEATH

DOHUK Iraq Somewhere in territory controlled by the Islamic State Kayla Mueller an American aid worker was chained in a room with other female captives... READ MORE›

IRAQI FORCES 'LIBERATE' EAST FROM ISIL FIGHTERS

Mosul Iraqi forces 'liberate' east from ISIL fighters... READ MORE›

TURKEY CALLS NATO TALKS ON IS AND PKK

Turkey has called a special meeting of Nato ambassadors to discuss military operations against the Islamic State IS group and PKK Kurdish separatists... READ MORE›

KURDS HEADING INTO THE TEETH OF ISIS OPEN A NEW FRONT

The hostages would be killed, the Islamic State had warned, it the pesh merga attacked... READ MORE›

AS KURDISH BORDERS CLOSE WAR OF WORDS HEATS UP

Mr. Ali also scoffed at Iraqi threats to move troops into Kirkuk, the oil-rich city claimed by both Arabs and Kurds... READ MORE›

AFGHAN 'PLASTIC BAG BOY' EXCITED ABOUT MESSI MEETING

Five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi delighted after Afghan Football Federation says Messi's management wants to arrange trip... READ MORE›

THREE YEARS SINCE ISLAMIC STATE ATTACK, YAZIDI WOUNDS STILL OPEN

Nearly 3,000 Yazidi women and children remain in Islamic State captivity, and control over Sinjar is disputed by rival armed factions and their regional patrons... READ MORE›

TRUMP TRAVEL BAN LEAVES IRAQ'S PERSECUTED YAZIDIS IN LIMBO

Germany, Canada and the United States are usually the top desired destinations for Iraq's Yazidis, Khidr said... READ MORE›

TURKEY LAUNCHES AIR STRIKES ON PKK TARGETS IN IRAQ

The raids took place in several Turkish provinces, including Istanbul, Ankara, Konya in central Turkey and Manisa in the west, the Radikal online newspaper said... READ MORE›

DESPERATE IRAQI YAZIDIS ARE JOINING THE EXODUS TO EUROPE

Desperate Iraqi Yazidis are joining the exodus to Europe... READ MORE›

KURDS INVESTIGATE REPORTS OF MASS GRAVE OF YAZIDIS

Kurdish and Yazidi fighters retook the town of Sinjar on Friday from the Islamic State, which had controlled it since August 2014... READ MORE›

LIFE UNDER ISLAMIC STATE RULE IN MOSUL ONE OF CONSTANT FEAR

Aws said the Islamic State has become an efficient, if brutal, bureaucracy in the past year... READ MORE›

THE YAZIDI PEOPLE: WHO ARE THEY AND WHY ARE THEY ON THE RUN?

Both Islamic and Christian traditions show the devil as a fallen angel, which leads many people to believe the Yazidis are devil worshippers... READ MORE›

ERDOGAN WARNS OF 'ETHNIC WAR' RISK OVER IRAQI KURDISH INDEPENDENCE VOTE

Large numbers turned out in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region for Monday's vote, which went ahead despite fierce objections from Baghdad, Turkey and Iran... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE USES BIRTH CONTROL TO MAINTAIN SUPPLY OF SEX SLAVES

Modern methods allow the Islamic State to keep up its systematic rape of captives under medieval codes... READ MORE›

TURKEY UNLEASHES WAVE OF AIRSTRIKES AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE, KURDISH MILITANT TARGETS

Forces for the use of its Incirlik base for airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, according to American and Turkish officials... READ MORE›

IRAQI FORCES CAPTURE WEST MOSUL'S MAIN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN PRE-DAWN RAID

Iraqi forces capture west Mosuls main government buildings in pre-dawn raid... READ MORE›

The Other Side Of The Mosul Operation How Do You Help One Million People Who Need Food, Water And Shelter?... READ MORE›

FORGET JONATHAN FRANZEN. HERE ARE SOME STORIES OF IRAQI ORPHANS.

CNN visited an orphanage in Sadr City, a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, in 2012... READ MORE›

NO ESCAPE FROM MOUNT SINJAR: THE FORGOTTEN YAZIDIS | TORONTO STAR

The 2014 attack by Islamic State radicals on Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq, was a massacre. The survivors say they are still in danger... READ MORE›

ANGELINA JOLIE APPOINTED VISITING PROFESSOR AT LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

Angelina Jolie Pitt, the Oscar-winning actress and special envoy for the U.N... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE USING BIRTH CONTROL TO KEEP SUPPLY OF SEX SLAVES

Far from trying to conceal the practice, Islamic State has boasted about it and established a department of war spoils to manage slavery... READ MORE›

TENSIONS RISE AS IRAQ KURDS DEFY BAGHDAD IN INDEPENDENCE VOTE

Erdogan also said Turkey's Habur border crossing with Iraqi Kurdistan would be closed... READ MORE›