A suicide bomb attack targeted a police checkpoint on Friday in east Lebanon on the Beirut-Damascus highway, killing one police officer and wounding 33 people, the Daily Star reported....

Notwithstanding whatever has already been said about the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), it has accomplished three things that were previously unthinkable. The first, and least...

Much ink has been spilled this past fortnight, since the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) swept through and occupied a large swathe of Iraq. While it seems...

Have you at last seen the original Sykes – Picot map? It annexes Mosul to Great Syria, and this is exactly what is happening now. So, are we witnessing...

As time passes and the military decline continues to affect the rebels in the western Iraqi provinces, it has become clear that what happened in Mosul and other north-western...

Iraq is heading towards a civil war fuelled by hate with unexpected consequences, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal warned yesterday. Al-Faisal also accused the Iraqi government of adopting...

“The Iraqi armed forces laid down their arms in the Sunni city of Mosul because they were uncertain of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s government’s unfair treatment of the people...

If anything is guaranteed to court controversy, it is Tony Blair expressing his views on the Middle East. The former prime minister’s time in office is largely defined by...

The United Nations has warned that Iraq’s neighbours may be overwhelmed by the mass exodus of refugees fleeing unrest in the country. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio...

The Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union in Germany Volker Kauder said he holds the United States responsible for the developments in Iraq. In remarks to the German newspaper...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-led (ISIS) fighters have shot down an Iraqi military helicopter during clashes for control of the country’s largest oil refinery on Wednesday....

An Iraqi TV channel with links to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki aired commercials calling on Iraqis to boycott Turkish and Saudi products. According to the Anadolu news...

In May 2003, less than a month before Baghdad’s fall, I participated in the Ralph Miliband Lecture Series at the London School of Economics and Political Science. These lectures...

A spokesperson for the US State Department rejected on Tuesday statements made by Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki accusing Saudi Arabia of sponsoring terrorism. Jen Psaki described his claims...

The Egyptian government is maintaining direct contacts with its Gulf counterparts regarding the developments in Iraq in preparation for any aggression that would threaten the region, a source at...

It is not difficult to conclude that what is happening in Iraq with regards to the so-called ISIS is a form of deception. It is true that the organisation...

The Chairman for the Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran Alaeddin Boroujerdi denied rumours that Tehran has sent troops to Iraq,...

Iraq’s ongoing conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, commonly referred to as ISIS, is unlikely to be resolved without significant political concessions from, and perhaps...

A senior Iraqi security official said that Iraq has enforced security measures and deployed more troops guarding oil infrastructures and crude oil fields to help protect this vital sector...

A senior Sunni leader in Iraq has claimed that ISIS fighters make up less than one-third of the rebels in the country. Major General Montasir Al-Anbari said that the...

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq has accused Nouri Al-Maliki of following an “Iranian agenda” to ignite civil war in the country. The group also holds the prime...

The former Iraqi Vice President Tarek Al-Hashemi has described the ongoing unrest against the government in Iraq a “Sunni Arab revolt”, Reuters reported on yesterday. He rejected suggestions that...

The Arab League yesterday condemned all terrorist acts carried out by the organisation of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in Iraq. It said ISIS had...

Foreign Minister Steinmeier yesterday said the international community “must prevent the outbreak of a proxy war between the regional powers on Iraqi soil”. In his interview with the German...

The ongoing fighting in Iraq could evolve into a sectarian war, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Erdogan told journalists: “This has gone far beyond an encounter...

US Secretary of State John Kerry asked Gulf States to support efforts in the fight against terrorism in Iraq and Syria. In calls with the foreign ministers of the...

Qatar’s Foreign Minister, Khalid bin Mohamed Al-Attiyah, has said that his country is deeply concerned about events and security developments taking place in Iraq which, he believes, have resulted...

The US needs Iran’s help to stop the advance of extremists towards Baghdad, CBS reported US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham saying yesterday. “We need to coordinate with the Iranians”...

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)’s ability to control large areas in northern Iraq “was expected because of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s sectarian policies and...

Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS) have seized the northwestern city of Tal Afar in the Ninawa Governorate west of Mosul Sunday, security sources told...

In George Orwell’s novel 1984, Winston Smith, whose job it is to edit historical documents so they reflect the party line, reads from Goldstein’s book. “In accordance to the...

Former Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi said that the areas surrounding Baghdad had already fallen and that Iraq is heading to the “partition” scenario. In an interview with CNN‘s...