France’s lower house of Parliament voted overwhelmingly yesterday to approve extending French airstrikes against the armed group known as Islamic State (ISIS). As many as 488 deputies voted in...

Iraqi Defence Minister Khaled Al-Obeidi has said that the Iraqi military has started rebuilding itself, but caveated the statement by outlining that: “we are still in the early stages”....

Years of taunts, insults and humiliating caricatures of the revered Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and immigrants, by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has resulted in what the...

In March 2003 the US-led invasion of my country, Iraq, began. I remember sitting in front of the TV watching as the bombs rained down on Baghdad; my parents...

Former French Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin has said that he holds Western foreign policy responsible for the multiplication of terrorism hotspots around the world. He added that he...

The announcement of last month’s breakthrough oil deal between Baghdad and Erbil was widely greeted with positive murmurings in the Western press. The deal, which came into effect on...

Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee Senator John McCain yesterday called on the US administration to deploy ground troops to participate in the war against the Islamic...

Iraq’s Ministry of Defence yesterday held talks with senior security delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government to deepen security and military cooperation between the two sides to counter the...

The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its fleet will be deployed to the Gulf to support operations against the Islamic State (ISIS), Mer et Marine news site...

Kuwaiti authorities have raised the security level on their county’s border with Iraq in wake of the “terrorist attack” perpetrated on the Saudi border earlier this week, Kuwaiti Al-Qabas...

The Islamic State executed 22 Iraqis on various charges in the provinces of Mosul and Salahuddin, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news site reported. Iraqi government war on ISIS The Baghdad Operations...

The commander of the ground forces of the Iranian Army, Brigadier Ahmed Reda Bordstan, warned the Islamic State (ISIS) against getting to within 40 kilometres of the Iranian border....

Iraqi President Fuad Masum today called for building the Iraqi army based on a professional basis, free of partisan or sectarian adherences, the Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement...

The Iraqi defence ministry said yesterday that it has received the first batch of US Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles in order to strengthen the Iraqi army in...

Media reports claim that the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has blocked efforts by Muslims to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). In Iraq, the Muslim...

Nearly 500 police personnel were killed and around 1,500 others injured in clashes with the Islamic State (ISIS) in the Anbar province of Iraq in 2014, Brigadier Jasim Al-Dulaimi,...

The so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has accused Shaikh Omar Mahmoud Othman (Abu Qatada) and Shaikh Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi of “misleading” people. Both men are leaders and well-known figures within...

Deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Lieutenant Gen. Hossein Salami, said that the forces linked to the Iranian revolution in Iraq, Syria and Yemen are 10 times larger...

The Human Rights Commission in Iraq has said that the number of kidnappings in the country doubled in 2014, with 4,583 incidents occurring over the year. Speaking at a...

It will take the Iraqi army five years to rid the country completely of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorist group, head of the Peshmerga’s Makhmur-Gawar...

US President Barack Obama has said that he is “very hesitant” to devote another trillion dollars to help in efforts to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the...

The terrorist organisation known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) has executed nearly 2,000 people in Syria over the last six months, the Syrian Observatory for...

Official Jordanian sources have revealed to Al Jazeera that indirect talks between the Jordanian government and ISIL are taking place for the release of the Jordanian pilot captured by...

Iraqi officials confirmed on Friday that ISIL has seized massive economic resources in several important Iraqi cities during the last six months. They noted this would enable the organisation...

Satellite images show that 290 sites classified as cultural heritage sites have been damaged during the war in Syria, the United Nations announced. In a report issued by the...

Iraq’s budget for 2015 has fallen to $100 billion due to the ongoing drop in oil prices, according to a member of the country’s parliamentary finance committee. On Tuesday,...

The Iraqi government’s High Level Committee for Internally Displaced People announced yesterday that 17,000 Iraqis were displaced during the second half of December, bringing the total number of displaced...

The Jordanian army on Wednesday confirmed that one of its warplanes had been shot down in Syria and its pilot captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant...

The United States officially informed the Iraqi government on Sunday night that it will not deliver the first batch of F-16 fighter jets to Baghdad, a senior official in...

Jordan’s industrial sector has endured more than $600 million in losses due to the deteriorating security situation in Iraq and confrontations with the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014, Chairman...

Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan has experienced an economic boom and an urban expansion in the last few years, especially in the outlying districts, where skyscrapers rise up...

When the first spontaneous explosions of the Arab democratic revolutions erupted in Tunisia in December 2010, many were hoping that this revolt might usher in a new beginning for...