Iraqi prime-minister Nuri al-Maliki succumbed to both internal and international pressure on Thursday, when he announced he would be stepping down from the post, giving his full support for successor Dr Haider Al-Abadi. The move comes in light of an increasing threat in Northern Iraq, where the Islamic State group[…]
Fierce fighting is raging around the Mosul dam, Iraq’s largest, as Kurdish Peshmerga troops and Iraqi forces try to recapture it from Islamic State fighters who seized it just over a week ago. Speaking from the town of Badriya on Monday, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said: “The dam is right[…]
Syrian government warplanes pounded an Islamic State group stronghold as well as other towns controlled by the rebels, conducting a wave of airstrikes Sunday that killed at least 11 people, activists said. For more than a year, President Bashar Assad’s air force rarely targeted territory controlled by the Islamic State[…]
The US carried out more air strikes on Friday, the military said, after receiving reports that Islamic State “terrorists were attacking civilians” in the area. As aid groups tried to cope with the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by IS advances in northern Iraq, ingredients of a fight-back began falling[…]
Indonesia’s president dismissed a call to arms to Indonesians by the Islamic State rebels in the Middle East Friday, saying the group’s version of Islam is heretical. IS’s attempt to spread its ideology “is a threat to our identity,” Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told parliament ahead of Independence Day. “Leaders across[…]
“We cannot remain silent when such atrocities are perpetrated in the name of Islam. The sanctity of human life is a supreme value in Islam and nothing is worth the cost of a human life. Such heinous acts of murder and violence are dishonourable and betray any expression of faith[…]
The United Nations has declared its highest level of emergency in Iraq even as fresh clashes between government troops and Sunni rebels killed four children west of Baghdad. Fighting erupted early on Thursday in the rebel-held city of Fallujah, about 65km west of Baghdad. The clashes on the city’s northern[…]
The United States has deployed a further 130 military advisers to the Iraqi region of Kurdistan, in a bid to assess an escalating crisis near the Northern town of Sinjar. Thousands of Iraqi Yazidis have been forced to flea to Sinjar Mountain, after the town was overrun by rebels from[…]
Islamic State fighters have captured two key towns and several villages near Syria’s northern border with Turkey after pushing out rival fighters in fierce clashes, opposition groups and activists said. Activists said fighters from the group captured the towns of Akhtarin and Turkmanbareh after fierce clashes with rebels who are[…]
The United States has sent 130 more military advisors to northern Iraq to assess the scope of the humanitarian crisis there, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday. “I recommended to the president and the president has authorized me to go ahead and send about 130 new assessment team members[…]
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