At least 27 Iraqi soldiers have been killed in two suicide attacks northwest of Ramadi as the push to recapture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group continues, military sources say. Ramadi, situated about 120km from the capital, Baghdad, was captured by ISIL in[…]
As Iraqi forces close in on the western city of Ramadi, thousands of civilians are effectively being held hostage inside by Islamic State who want to use them as human shields. Iraqi forces cut the hardline group’s last supply line into Ramadi in November, surrounding the city and making it[…]
More than 100 Turkish soldiers have been deployed to an area near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, currently under control of the Islamic State (IS) group, to replace a unit providing training to Iraqi troops, Turkish media reported on Friday. Around 150 soldiers, backed by 20 to 25 tanks,[…]
Sunni Muslims are facing forced evictions, abductions, and other serious human rights abuses in areas of Iraq freed from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) control, the United Nations said on Friday. Analysts have warned that Sunni Arabs are being discriminated against in Iraq by either the Shia-led[…]
Kurdish Peshmerga forces have entered the centre of Sinjar after pushing out Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters from the northern Iraqi town, sources told Al Jazeera. Sporadic bursts of gunfire could be heard inside Sinjar on Friday as Kurdish fighters filed down the hill overlooking the[…]
Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by US-led coaltion war planes, have launched a major offensive to retake the strategic town of Sinjar in northern Iraq from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. A statement from the Kurdish Regional Security Council on Thursday said about 7,500 Peshmerga fighters were[…]
Iraqi security forces say they have struck the convoy of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, in an air strike near the country’s border with Syria. “The Iraqi air force carried out a heroic operation targeting the convoy of the[…]
A “package of measures” are needed to address political, religious and socio-economic challenges in the Middle East that are fuelling extremism in the region, according to out-going Iraqi Ambassador to South Africa, Dr Hisham Al Alawi. These measures, he says, need incorporate both government and non-government entities and come from[…]
By the time Sheikh Mahmud Barzinji declared himself king of Kurdistan in 1922, over an area that included the city of Sulaimania and its environs, he had already fought dozens of battles; some alongside the British against the Ottomans, others against the British alongside the Arabs, and then several more[…]
Iraq’s deputy justice minister was kidnapped from his vehicle on Tuesday by black-clad gunmen in a north Baghdad district, three security sources said, the second high-profile abduction in the capital in less than a week. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Baghdad has seen a proliferation in recent years[…]
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