Iraqi armed forces launched an operation today to capture the last Daesh-held enclave in Mosul, according to a military statement. The fall of the city would effectively mark the...

A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed fighting Daesh west of the Iraqi city of Mosul, the Tehran-based Tasnim news agency reported today. It...

The Iraqi air force dropped leaflets yesterday urging residents in the Daesh-held Old City centre of Mosul to flee, raising fears among humanitarian groups for the safety of desperate...

US appeals court judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s revised travel stating that it “drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination”. Trump’s second attempt to reinstate the “Muslim ban”...

The rulers of Saudi Arabia should remember the fate of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and should “accept the desire of their people and not collude with foreign forces”, Iran’s...

Three senior Daesh military leaders and planners were killed in coalition attacks in Iraq and Syria over the past two months, the coalition fighting the militants said in a...

An Iraqi official has appeared to admit to and confirm his country’s armed forces committing war crimes in Mosul during a television broadcast, saying that such actions were acceptable...

An Iraqi parliamentary committee said on Wednesday that it will challenge the maritime navigation agreement with Kuwait. Committee Chairman, Mazen Al-Mazni, told a press conference held in the parliament...

Viyan Amir is seen as she receives the title of the 'Miss Iraq 2017' during Miss Iraq Beauty Contest in Baghdad, Iraq

US officials said today that a military investigation had found that more than 100 civilians were killed after a US air strike on a building in Mosul, Iraq, in...

The Iraqi government today delivered the remains of 135 Iranian soldiers killed during the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988) over to Tehran, according to an Iraqi official. Speaking to the Anadolu...

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Wednesday that the conflicts in Middle East and North African countries are putting the lives of 24 million children in danger, Arab48 ...

Daesh militants have executed 13 Iraqi civilians for trying to flee the northern city of Mosul, a local police officer said Wednesday. The victims were shot dead at the...

Azad and Mohammad are two siblings maintained their lives by selling sesame oil in Mosul before they lost their hands. They were accused of theft by Daesh while they were trying to get back their money after selling sesame oil. Now they work as construction workers to earn money. After they were left homeless, they started to live in a two-roomed house in Al-Hamdaniya district of Iraq.

Iraqi forces “are monsters not heroes” and the US stood by and watched as they tortured civilians, German magazine Der Spiegel reported. The publication’s German-Iraqi journalist, Ali Arkady, who...

The US military lost track of $1 billion worth of arms bound for Iraq and Kuwait, according to an US Department of Defence audit obtained by Amnesty International. The...