Iraqi Military

Iraqi forces affiliated with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have killed around 43 Iraqis and destroyed a number of mosques in Solaiman Beek village in Saladdin Governorate. Iraqi sources...

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry has called on Iraq's security services to "assume their responsibilities" to stop what it described as Iraqi violations of the border area between the two...

The Iraqi authorities have suspended the broadcast licences of Al-Jazeera and nine other TV channels. Al-Jazeera has been told to stop all its operations and activities in the country....

A number of soldiers and officers in the 12th Division of the Iraqi army, stationed in Kirkuk in the governorate of Ta'mim, have announced their defection from the army....

Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, has told cabinet ministers that the president of the Palestinian Authority benefits too much from the current negotiations, making him "incapable of signing a historic...

On Friday chief tribal leader Sheikh Ali Al-Hatem called on all Iraqi tribes to withdraw their sons from the Iraqi army until the latter releases the kidnapped parliamentarian Ahmed...

Insurgents in Iraq are preparing for an assault on their positions by government forces. A group calling itself the Leadership of the Military Council for the Rebels, which was...

The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has criticised the Iraqi government's military intervention in Anbar province, saying that it will complicate the situation further. Massoud Barzani noted that...

A delegation of Iraqi security officials has arrived in Cairo for a four-day visit to discuss cooperation with Egypt in"the fight against terrorism and organised crime", it has been...

The "new Iraq" government and its media are beating the drums of comprehensive sectarian strife. The Iraqi people, drowning in a flood of poverty, poor education and health provision,...

Since the election of Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani last year, there has been a significant thaw in relations with the country's old adversary, the US. This diplomatic shift...