Diplomatic sources have revealed that military leaders from around the world will meet in Riyadh on Wednesday to evaluate the path of the war against ISIS. According to Agence...

Islamic State militants have kidnapped 120 youths near the city of Tikrit in Iraq’s Salahuddin province, 160 kilometres north-west of the capital Baghdad, Anadolu agency reported today. A spokesman...

ISIS militants on Monday took over the highway connecting the Iraqi cities of Samarra and Tikrit, Arabi 21 has reported. The head of the People’s Militia in Salahuddin Governorate,...

The European Parliament urged the European Union to organise an international conference to raise financial assistance for refugees in Iraq and Syria and the countries that host them, the...

January oil exports in Iraq fell to 2.56 million barrels a day compared to 2.94 million barrels per day in December, the country’s Ministry of Oil revealed. The ministry’s...

US General John Allen, advisor to the American president and special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS, has said that “Iraqi troops will begin a major...

Following on from the tragic and brutal murder of the Jordanian fighter pilot Mu’ath Al-Kaseasbeh at the hands of his ISIS captors, many people have been thinking about other...

Jordan has deployed “thousands” of ground troops along its border with Iraq, US’s ABC News quoted a Jordanian source as saying. According to the source, the troops will likely...

The video of ISIS gang members burning alive the Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh in a disgusting semi-celebratory ritualistic manner prompted a shift in the kingdom’s public opinion. It caused...

Algeria rejected a request to send military aircraft to participate in the war against ISIS last November due to “technical and logistical difficulties”, a diplomatic source has revealed. The...

The US coordinator for the international coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) John Allen said yesterday that a ground offensive against the organisation will start soon. “In the weeks...

Germany has decided to supply $13m worth of military aid to Kurdish fighters in Northern Iraq to help in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) extremists, Anadolu reported on...

Barack Obama’s candidate for Defence Secretary, Ashton Carter, has said he has concerns regarding Iran’s activities in Iraq that could undermine US efforts against ISIS (also known as ISIL)....

An Egyptian court on Saturday banned the Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas – Palestine’s Islamic resistance movement. The decision meant that Egypt now lists Al-Qassam...

When the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) seized control of huge swathes of Iraq last summer, it was hoped that this grave threat to the country’s security might lead...

Following the horrific murder of Jordanian air force pilot Muadh Al-Kasasbeh by ISIS, the world is, rightly, convulsed with anger. There is growing disbelief at the depths of depravity...

Former minister in the post-occupation Iraqi government Mowaffak Al-Rubaie has put the rope used to execute the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein up for sale. He has kept the...

The scene of the Jordanian pilot being burnt to death by Islamic State (ISIS) militants caused controversy on Egyptian social media pages, Arabi21 observed. An internet video released by...

Jordanian authorities executed two Iraqi Al-Qaeda prisoners, including Sajida Al-Rishawi, in the early hours of this morning, hours after the killing of a Jordanian pilot by the Islamic State...

Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood group yesterday condemned the execution of Jordanian pilot Mu’ath Al-Kaseasbeh by the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group. “We condemn this criminal act that violates the rights...

Since the forces of the Islamic State (ISIS) blitzed through northern Iraq all the way down to the outskirts of Baghdad last summer, Iraq has been in the news...

“Oreo cheesecake à la @OumMujahid93 and me,” declares a tweet, showcasing the delicious-looking cheesecake to her social media followers. It’s the sort of tweet sent by thousands of young...

Iraq’s powerful Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr expressed his unequivocal opposition to allowing former Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki take control of the popular troops, a group of Shia volunteers setup to...

Germany’s lower house of parliament has approved a decision to send a military mission consisting of 100 German soldiers to train Kurdish peshmerga forces fighting against the Islamic State,...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has said that US-led air strikes on ISIS fighters in his country must be based on a prior agreement with Damascus, and that Syrian troops...

Jordan could comply with a hostage swap to save the life of a Japanese journalist held by Islamic State (ISIS) militants – but only if ISIS also throws in...

“There are aspects to Israeli policy and behaviour that do immense damage in the eyes of the international community” One of the most senior figures in the Catholic Church...

A FlyDubai plane carrying 154 passengers came under fire on Monday while approaching Baghdad International Airport. The incident prompted the United Arab Emirates aviation authority to issue a ban...

We are fast approaching the anniversary of Colin Powell’s now infamous speech before the United Nations as the Bush administration ramped up the case for invading Iraq ten years...

The British media’s coverage of the civil war in Syria since 2011 has been simply woeful. From the start is has been dominated by the illusions and self-interest of...

Fate had it that Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz died on the same day that the Houthis seized authority in Yemen after it secured their control over the...

The Diwaniyah governorate, south of Iraq, signed a $1.35 billion deal with Kuwait’s Al-Nasriyah Co. for the establishment of an airport, commercial areas and others for storage. Iraq’s international airports...