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....

Sunni Iraqi lawmakers and ministers yesterday boycotted parliament and cabinet sessions to protest against violent attacks against their community in the district of Muqdadiyah, in Diyala province, east of...

Iraq’s Defence Minister Khalid al-Obeidi met with his Egyptian counterpart Sedki Sobhi in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss military issues and means to enhance coordination and cooperation between the...

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) headed by Jalal Talabani, a former Iraqi president, ended on Tuesday a strategic alliance formed in 2007 with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)...

This is the first article of a two part series examining the Iraqi revolution and the five years that followed it. Part II looks at Iraq’s ancient Sunni-Shia division...

Three US citizens have been kidnapped in Al-Dorah neighbourhood, in the south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Al Jazeera reported. Iraqi security forces set up checkpoints in southeast...

A German military delegation and Kurdish military officials yesterday participated in laying the foundation for a military training centre near Erbil, Iraq, to train Peshmerga forces, Turkey’s Anadolu Agency...

Qatar’s Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah yesterday called on the Iraqi government to take responsibility and increase efforts to secure the release of 26 Qataris who were...

Turkey destroyed PKK camps in northern Iraq late yesterday, security sources revealed today. According to the sources, four F-16s and two F-4 combat aircraft belonging to the Turkish Armed...

The northern Iraqi administration is digging trenches along the expansion of Rabia, west of Mosul in the Nineveh province, and reaching to the outskirts of Diyala province. This has...

Daesh has launched a propaganda news channel, a human rights group has claimed. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently reported that Daesh’s media and propaganda division launched the satellite channel...

The day after Mosul fell into the hands of Daesh, a military expert said, “Mosul would not have fallen if the Iraqi army was present.” He went on to...

Germany yesterday dispatched 100 troops to Turkey to oversee the Tornados which will carry out reconnaissance missions in Syria as part of Berlin’s support for the anti-Daesh coalition, Anadolu...

Iraq’s senior Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani condemned on Sunday the Saudi regime’s execution of prominent Shia imam Nimr A-Nimr. “We have received with much sorrow and regret...

The convoy of Iraq’s Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi came under rocket fire in Ramadi shortly after he arrived to salute Iraqi forces for the city’s recapture, Kurdish Rudwa news...

Iraq’s Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said on Tuesday that 80 percent of the city of Ramadi in Anbar province was destroyed by the battles between security forces and Daesh...

The United States will provide military aid worth $200 million to the Peshmerga forces in 2016, a senior Iraqi official revealed. Jabbar Yawar, the secretary general of the ministry...

The representative of Iraq’s top Shia spiritual leader called on Friday for the release of the Qataris kidnapped in Iraq, AlKhaleeonline.com has reported. A group of armed Iraqis kidnapped...

More than 600 Tunisian Jihadists have returned to their homes after fighting in Syria, a spokesman for the interior ministry said on Friday. Speaking to journalists during a conference...

Iraqi forces have been advancing towards the city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province in western Iraq which has been under Daesh control since May,and are likely to...