The Iraqi trade attache in Iran Shaker Rawan Al-Daami has declared that the two countries have agreed to establish a joint bank to facilitate financial transactions between them. The...

The European Union Ambassador in Iraq, Jana Hybášková, has accused some European countries of purchasing oil from the Islamic State, or IS, Anadolu news agency reported. Hybášková’s remarks came...

The United Nations Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) announced the death of 1,688 Iraqis, and the injury of 2,166 more, during August due to acts of violence in different parts...

Many argue that the Islamic State (IS) wouldn’t have taken northeast Syria as a safe haven if Washington had taken action to resolve the situation militarily with the Syrian...

Islamic State fighters have used ground-fired cluster munitions in at least one location in northern Syria in recent weeks, Human Rights Watch said today. In a statement released earlier,...

A Sunni political coalition in Iraq has withdrawn from negotiations to form a unity government under Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, an Iraqi lawmaker has said. MP Khaled Al-Mafraji, the...

The militant group ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) controls a huge swathe of territory straddling Iraq and Syria. The human rights abuses they have committed have...

Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen has said that an Israeli drone, similar to the one downed several days ago by Iran, has been downed in Baghdad. Al-Mayadeen reported that sources...

The US is seeking to form a regional alliance to fight the Islamic State (IS), the Anadolu news agency reported. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said yesterday during the...

Sources close to the organisation of the Islamic State in Syria told Anadolu news agency’s correspondent on Wednesday that the organisation killed about 200 soldiers from the Syrian regime’s...

Iraqi’s Prime Minister-designate Haider Al-Abadi yesterday “stressed the need to dry up terrorists resources in Iraq and the region in order to maintain stability as Iraq is currently facing...

US President Barack Obama said yesterday uprooting “cancer” like ISIS will not be quick and easy. He added that the US will build a coalition to fight the “barbaric...

The Palestinian resistance showed the world that Palestine is “unforgettable” and crimes committed against it are “unforgiveable”, top Islamic Jihad Leader Ramadan Shallah said yesterday. In the wake of...

US President Barak Obama’s decision to send aircraft to assist the Kurdish Pashmerga forces against ISIS attacks in northern Iraq excited those who which had almost lost hope in...

What is happening in Iraq is a tragedy the country has not seen for the past 20 years, spokeswoman of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Natalia Prokopchuk said....

The Iraqi Jafari Shia council condemned the “terrorist massacres” and “genocide” of Sunnis in Iraq by “the gangs of Nouri Al-Maliki and Iran”, a statement said yesterday. The Jafari...

Contrary to what many believe, the war between ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and the Kurds did not begin with the former’s control of Mosul and...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has felt desperate recently with the massive popular criticism of his country’s savage war against the people of the Gaza Strip, which so far...

Iraq’s Uniters for Reform coalition, or Muttahidoon, a Sunni coalition led by Usama Al-Nujayfi, said on Monday that armed militias backed by security forces are active in the “Baghdad...

Outside the Catholic Church in Marj el Hamam, Jordan, two teenage boys diligently put together a set of shelves. They pass time as they wait for the line outside...

The Iraqi National Movement (INM), led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi (a Shiite secularist politician) handed prime minister-designate Haidar Abadi a paper comprising 14 demands related to the...

I have no idea where the Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL or whatever name it uses came from, and I’m just as baffled by the roots of its violent ideology. While I...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Friday that Iraq’s Kurdistan region has received 700,000 displaced Iraqis who were forced to leave their homes to escape...

At least 65 Sunni worshippers were shot dead by unidentified Shiite militants while performing the Friday prayers yesterday in the eastern Iraqi governorate of Diyala, officials told Al-Arab Al-Yawm....

A senior US official said yesterday that the US Department of Defence plans to send an additional 300 US soldiers to Iraq at the request of the State Department....

Hamas’s senior leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar said on Wednesday that comparing Hamas with the Islamic State is “a deception” that aims to “incite” the world against the Palestinian resistance movement,...

A tanker carrying crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan reappeared unladen on 19 August nearly 30 km from the coast of Israel, Reuters Live AIS ship tracking system showed. Al-Quds...

When the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia enters an alliance with Iran and the US coordinates security with President Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime (against which, a year ago, America was...

The Iraqi Oil Ministry welcomed, in a statement issued on Wednesday, the decision by the UN Security Council that anyone caught buying oil from the Islamic State (IS), formerly...

Syria has become home to some 50,000 Islamic State (IS) fighters, including more than 6,000 members who joined the organisation in July, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said...

Before Britain gets involved in another intervention against Sunni insurgents in Iraq, David Cameron should read the Koran. Verse 216, Chapter 2 says: “You may hate a thing which...

A few months ago, I hosted an Iraqi media figure close to the ruling regime in Baghdad, who surprised me by saying, “If we knew that the fall of...