The operation to destroy Daesh’s final vestige of rule in Iraq and Syria hit a temporary snag on Thursday, as an expected evacuation of the remaining civilians from its...

The United States will leave “a small peacekeeping group” of 200 American troops in Syria for a period of time after a US pullout, the White House said on...

At least 10 people were killed and a number were wounded on Thursday when a bomb blast hit a minibus carrying workers employed in a major oil installation in...

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) handed over more than 150 Iraqi and other foreign Daesh fighters to Iraq earlier this morning, as controversy as to the fate of...

The Chargé d’Affaires of the US Mission in Iraq Joey Hood said yesterday that the US Embassy in Baghdad has brought about 50 investment companies to Iraq. Speaking at...

The Bahrain Supreme Criminal Court yesterday sentenced six people to varying prison terms and stripped five of them of their nationality after finding them guilty of receiving military training...

Climate change threats – from worsening water shortages in Iraq and Pakistan to harsher hurricanes in the Caribbean – are a growing security risk and require concerted action to...

Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Iraq, Joey Hood said Tuesday that US troops, as well as the international coalition forces and NATO, will leave Iraq if requested...

Switzerland would prefer to have citizens who fought for Islamic State tried on the spot rather than be brought home to face criminal charges, its justice minister said on...

A British teenager who joined Daesh in 2015 will have her citizenship revoked after pleading with the government to allow her to return to the UK, Anadolu Agency reports....

'Drop BP. Drop BP'

The Iraqi Commission of Integrity said yesterday it had referred 11 former ministers to court on charges of corruption in 2018. Commission Chairman, Ezzat Tawfiq Jafar, said at a...

Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers on Monday elected an interim speaker of parliament, an assembly key to regional stability, although the Kurds’ second largest party boycotted the vote due to a...

The United Nations (UN) yesterday called on Iraq to form a government as soon as possible, asking the country’s political parties to fill the four ministerial positions which remain...

A senior French officer faces punishment after publicly condemning the US-led coalition’s military tactics against Daesh in the east of Syria, accusing Washington of prolonging the conflict and disregarding...

The United States will have to sever its military assistance to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) battling Daesh if the fighters partner with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or...

The geographical area occupied by Daesh is diminishing, according to the Pentagon, but the organisation itself will not disappear. The US Secretary of State has told his counterparts from...

Israel’s military intelligence has said that “Iran may use Iraq as a launching pad to target Israel, which would call for a response from Tel Aviv”. “Israeli airstrikes against...

For many Mosul residents, Daesh occupation is a traumatic memory that still dominates daily life, around a year and a half after the jihadist group was forced out of...

The Saudi owned MBC media group is launching an Iraqi channel... and not everyone is happy about it

The Nineveh Criminal Court in northern Iraq today sentenced six brothers to death by hanging for joining Daesh and carrying out attacks against the Iraqi security forces. The media...

Acting US defence chief Patrick Shanahan told Iraqi leaders that Washington understood its forces were in Iraq at Baghdad’s invitation, aiming to steady relations after President Donald Trump said...

Dozens of relatives of foreign fighters including Iraqis, Turks, and Russians fled Daesh’s last bastion in eastern Syria on Tuesday as the jihadists lost ground to US-backed forces, Reuters reports....

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday for an unannounced visit during which he said he would stress the importance of Iraqi sovereignty and broach...

Arms imports to the Middle East were doubled during the period from 2013-2017, compared to the region’s total arms imports in the previous five years, the Munich Security Report...

Is Iraq's economy about to boom?

The United States is likely just weeks away from starting the withdrawal of ground troops from Syria ordered by President Donald Trump, the top US commander overseeing American forces...

Daesh is far from defeated, and instead is morphing into an asymmetrical warfare force after the militant group lost almost all of the territory it once controlled in Syria,...

US officials are considering the controversial military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to house captured suspected Daesh fighters as Washington prepares to withdraw from Syria, according to a report, Anadolu...

Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is believed to have fled an attempted coup by fighters within his own group last month, senior regional intelligence officials have told the Guardian....

Iraqi security forces have closed four “unauthorised” Popular Mobilisation Forces (Hashd Al-Shaabi) outposts and detained a number of its members, according to a local security source. “Security forces late...

Leader of the Abu Al-Fadl Al-Abbas Forces of the Popular Mobilisation Forces, Aws al-Khafaji said on Wednesday that Iraqi renowned novelist Alaa Mashthob was assassinated because he had criticised...