Iraqi forces have arrested seven wanted extremist Islamic State (IS) militants in separate counter-terrorism operations ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi security forces on Tuesday arrested seven suspected Islamic State (ISIS) militants in ...

ISIS militants began a full-scale attack in northern and western Iraq in June 2014, taking control of vast areas of land, ...

In June 2014, ISIS launched an all-out offensive in northern and western Iraq, seizing large swathes of territory, including ...

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Iraq sent armoured vehicles on Monday to reinforce ... Similar forces were deployed along the border further north in Nineveh province, it said. The move comes after the Syrian Observatory for ...

Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is calling for an anti-American protest in the Iraqi city of Najaf on April 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. Al-Sadr's statement calling for a ...