Iraq

Iraqi officials confirmed on Friday that ISIL has seized massive economic resources in several important Iraqi cities during the last six months. They noted this would enable the organisation...

Satellite images show that 290 sites classified as cultural heritage sites have been damaged during the war in Syria, the United Nations announced. In a report issued by the...

Iraq's budget for 2015 has fallen to $100 billion due to the ongoing drop in oil prices, according to a member of the country's parliamentary finance committee. On Tuesday,...

The Iraqi government's High Level Committee for Internally Displaced People announced yesterday that 17,000 Iraqis were displaced during the second half of December, bringing the total number of displaced...

The Jordanian army on Wednesday confirmed that one of its warplanes had been shot down in Syria and its pilot captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant...

The United States officially informed the Iraqi government on Sunday night that it will not deliver the first batch of F-16 fighter jets to Baghdad, a senior official in...

Jordan's industrial sector has endured more than $600 million in losses due to the deteriorating security situation in Iraq and confrontations with the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014, Chairman...

Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan has experienced an economic boom and an urban expansion in the last few years, especially in the outlying districts, where skyscrapers rise up...

When the first spontaneous explosions of the Arab democratic revolutions erupted in Tunisia in December 2010, many were hoping that this revolt might usher in a new beginning for...

Washington is to send 1,300 soldiers to Iraq next month to train Iraqi security forces, the Pentagon announced on Friday. The announcement was made in a media conference by...

Countries east of the Mediterranean Sea have sustained economic losses amounting to $35 billion due to the Syrian war and the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS), the World...

Within the framework of the "War on Terror", the administration of former US President George W. Bush proposed the idea of promoting democracy in the Middle East as an...

The US Congress allowed two Kurdish groups to be removed from a terror blacklist under US immigration laws. The move was part of a wider defense spending bill passed...

Iran's deputy foreign minister has said that his country will support Iraq with military forces and advisors in its fight against ISIS, it was announced yesterday. Hossein Amir Abdollahian...

US Congress voted in favour of authorising President Barack Obama to carry out military operations against the Islamic State (ISIS) for three years. During a speech before Congress, US...

Iraqi Shia cleric and head of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr yesterday ordered his Peace Brigades to prepare within 24 hours for jihad against the Islamic State (ISIS) attacks....

Islamic State (ISIS) militants seized control of more villages in the Iraqi province of Anbar, while clashes broke out between Iraqi forces and ISIS near the city of Samarra,...

A Lebanese military court yesterday acquitted Saja Al-Dulaimi, the ex-wife of the head of the Islamic State (ISIS), as well as Alaa Oqaily, the wife of a senior ISIS...

Saudi Arabia, with nearly $60 billion in defence spending each year, is the world's fourth largest military spender after the United States, China and Russia. In the Middle East,...

Sources in the Iraqi army said on Wednesday that the Islamic State group (also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS) has dismantled a small...

The world's newest bête noire, the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or simply Islamic State ("Da'esh" in Arabic) has barely been out...

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday said that an Iranian military strike against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq would be "positive". Kerry's remarks came after the US...

The Shia-Sunni Alliance of New Jersey issued a joint statement on Tuesday openly condemning the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as "Da'esh". Signed by 28...

The Israeli foreign ministry said yesterday that it has opened an "immediate investigation" into reports that an Israeli citizen, who was fighting with the Kurdish People's Protection Units, has...

Was it a case of bad journalism focusing on sensationalism, or was it driven by a rush to judgement despite lacking substance? I'm referring of course to the front...

Islamic State militants blew up the Badush prison, 25 kilometres of Mosul, yesterday after transferring all the prisoners, a police officer in the Nineveh province said earlier. In a...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu emphasised that air strikes alone will not be enough to remove the threat posed by ISIS. Çavuşoğlu's statements came in the form of a...

Five planes loaded with support for security forces and tribes fighting ISIS, including weapons, have arrived in the city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province. Sabah Karhot,...

Neither the coalition forces nor the US are serious in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Head of Iraq's Parliament Security Committee Hakim al-Zamili...

Reports in Turkey claim that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have trained Iraqi volunteers to fight against ISIS. Anadolu news agency reported on Friday that the news was confirmed by...

Iraq's Anbar province police chief said the Islamic State (ISIS) has launched an attack on the four corners of the city of Ramadi in the heaviest strike by the...

Last Thursday, the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) announced that they will be minting their own currency, together with design mock-ups of how the coins will look. According to a...