The US will not launch any major operation to recapture Mosul from Daesh’s group this year, a senior intelligence official said yesterday. During his speech to Congress, Marine Lieutenant...

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has attributed the country’s economic crisis to the sharp decrease in oil prices in the global oil market, calling for a reshuffle of the...

Are Russia, Ukraine and Georgia part of the “East” or the “West”? What of Turkey, whose largest city, Istanbul, home to 13 million people, is the third most populous...

The Arab nation is witnessing one of the worst phases of its political, military and social life. Sectarianism is tearing apart its social fabric, instilling the roots of hatred...

One key demand for which people took to the streets in the Arab Spring countries back in 2011 was uprooting corruption.It was hoped that, in that part of the...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Sunday that Turkey had no choice but to take in 3 million migrants of Syria and Iraq so far. Speaking during...

The Iraqi defence ministry has begun the construction of a concrete wall around Baghdad, in an effort to prevent Daesh attacks, a military statement revealed yesterday. “The security barrier...

Around 5,000 families in Fallujah are facing starvation and death as food and medicines run out due to the siege imposed by the Iraqi security forces, AlKhaleejonline.com has reported....

The world has been sucked into a whirlpool of wars since the beginning of the 21st century. Millions of Muslims have lost their lives in the occupations of Iraq...

Indeed, the Sunnis of Iraq are angry. This is the reality of the situation and the signs were clarified by the statements made by Saudi Ambassador Thamer Al-Subhan during...

A source from the US Department of Defence has said that the Pentagon has increased the budget allotted to fight Daesh in Syria and Iraq. US Defence Secretary Ashton...

The US-based watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that members of Shia militias, who the Iraqi government has included among its state forces, have abducted and killed scores...

 The Union of Muslim Scholars has strongly condemned the negligence of successive Iraqi governments regarding the maintenance of the Mosul Dam, warning of serious dangers if it was to...

Canadians fighting with or training Kurdish fighters may be breaching Canada’s anti-terrorism laws and could face prosecution, Canadian media reported Thursday. A secret document labeled “For Canadian Eyes Only”...

Danish lawmakers voted Tuesday in favour of controversial legislation empowering authorities to seize cash and valuables from asylum seekers to pay for their upkeep. The law was passed in...

Head of the Iraqi Islamic Party Ayad Al-Samarrai has criticised his country for not joining the Saudi-led anti-terror coalition and stressed that Turkey planned to help Iraq secure the...

A letter written by a Turkish soldier has been published in the local media in Turkey. The soldier is currently fighting against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in...

This is the second article of a two part series examining the Iraqi revolution and the five years that followed it. Part I looks at Iraq after the Arab...

The question of ‘Why is Daesh not shut out of the internet?’ seems so unpretentious, but the answer to such a question is certainly problematic and sophisticated. In the...

Imagine Daesh as a solar system; then imagine a white-hot sun in the middle. That is the die-hards, the ideologues, the unpersuadable few whose minds cannot be changed. Their...

Iraqi citizens are now being asked for fees at healthcare facilities around the country, a source at the Ministry of Health has informed Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. The oil-rich country has...

Once famous for its heroic resistance to the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, Fallujah is now better known primarily as the epicentre of children born with horrendous deformities. The...

An Iraqi Sunni group has accused Shia militias in Diyali of carrying out systematic assassinations of Sunni imams and scholars, Alamatonline.com reported on Friday. The details have been revealed...

Algerian diplomat and former United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria said that Daesh is the illegitimate child of the American occupation of Iraq and Iran’s increased...

US intelligence agencies are investigating the abduction of three American citizens in Iraq, focusing on three groups linked to Iran, government sources revealed yesterday. Reuters quoted the sources saying...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday there is no difference between the Islamic State and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) because both organisations carry out terrorist operations against...

Russia’s presence in the Middle East has for long been viewed as a controversial matter. Its actions in Syria and Iraq, and facilitation of Iran’s expansionist policy, have become...

It seems it is not only the far right that seizes the opportunity of every calamity that befalls us and every terrorist attack to unleash their exclusionary and hateful...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said there will be no more talks with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Democratic People’s Party (HDP) or any other organizations associated...

Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has called for the establishment of an independent Kurdish state, Israel’s Yediot Ahronot newspaper reported. “We must openly call for the establishment of a...

The U.S.-led anti-Daesh effort will increase the number of troops in Iraq that will train more Iraqi fighters ahead of a Mosul operation, a coalition spokesman said Wednesday. “That’s...

Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional government (KRG) has recently been digging trenches from Rabia, near the Syrian border west of Mosul, to the outskirts of the eastern province of Diyala....