4,460 US troops now in Iraq
In the past few days, more than 400 additional US troops have been deployed to Iraq, a military official for the US Central Command (CENTCOM)…
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Twin bombings kill 3 in Iraqi capital
At least three people were killed Thursday in two separate bomb attacks in Iraqi capital Baghdad, according to a local security source. “One person was…
What is the Turkish army really doing in Iraq?
A cannon shot roared into the night. The target was in the town of Bashiqa in northern Iraq, seized by the Islamic State (IS) in…
Bye bye burka: ISIS bans burka in Iraqi city after killings by veiled women
The so-called Islamic State terror group has allegedly banned women from wearing the burka at security centers in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul despite…
Iraq puts out more oil fires at northern field
Iraq has put out fires at six more oil wells in the Qayyara region, which Iraqi forces recaptured from Islamic State late last month, but…
The ‘beginning of end’ for Daesh in Iraq, Syria?
The Daesh terrorist group has suffered a string of military defeats this year after overrunning vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in 2014….
24 people killed in N. Iraq clash with Daesh
At least 24 Iraqi people were killed and dozens more injured in clashes with members of the Daesh terrorist group in Iraq’s northern Saladin province,…
Dozens of mass graves with the bodies of IS victims found in Iraq and Syria
Journalists have found and mapped at least 72 mass graves in Iraq, the most comprehensive survey so far, and expect that many more will be…
Iraqi governor survives assassination attempt
The governor of northern Iraq’s Saladin province, Ahmed al-Jabouri, survived an assassination attempt Thursday, a local police officer said. “A device exploded as al-Jabouri’s motorcade…
‘Un-Islamic’ cultural heritage in jihadists’ crosshairs
From Mali to Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, Islamist fighters have regularly turned their sights on the priceless vestiges of peoples’ cultural heritage — for being…