Men wearing military uniforms have stormed a construction site in Baghdad and seized 20 workers, including at least 17 from Turkey and several from Iraq, security sources have told Al Jazeera. They say the workers were employed by a Turkish construction company, Nurol Insaat, contracted to build a sports complex[…]
With much of the world focusing on the Islamic State (IS) and its offensive on Kobane, very little is known about the Kurdish people, who call the Syrian-Turkish border town home. The Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East and Central Asia. The Kurdish question is a term[…]
At least 55 people have been killed and 200 others injured in a massive truck bomb attack in Baghdad, police and sources have told Al Jazeera. The attack on Thursday morning took place in a crowded vegetable market in Sadr City, a Shia district in the northeast of the Iraqi capital.[…]
At least 22 Iraqi soldiers and fighters from the Popular Mobilisation Forces have been killed in a double suicide car attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in east Fallujah, local police sources have told Al Jazeera. Wednesday’s attack was carried out with a confiscated Iraqi[…]
Explosions have rocked a string of Shia neighbourhoods across the Iraqi capital, killing at least 35 people and wounding another 70, police have said. The deadliest bombing took place in Baghdad’s northern Shaab neighbourhood when a man detonated an explosive vest in a crowded market, killing nine people and wounding[…]
Iraqi security forces, backed by Shia-dominated militias, are laying siege to the western city of Falluja in an attempt to cut off vital supply routes being used by the Islamic State, security sources and militia commanders have told MEE. Falluja, a relatively small city west of Baghdad near the Euphrates[…]
The UN’s culture agency, UNESCO, wrapped up its annual meet on protecting monuments on Wednesday by praising efforts to protect the Middle East’s treasures in the face of war, looting and relic-destruction by religious zealots. At talks in Bonn, the World Heritage Committee added 24 sites to its list of cherished[…]
An Iraqi plane accidentally dropped a bomb on an eastern Baghdad neighborhood on Monday, police and residents said, killing at least five people and destroying several houses. The Sukhoi jet had been taking part in an air strike against Islamic State radicals, Iraqi television said. One of its bombs failed[…]
President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered the deployment of 450 more U.S. troops to Iraq’s Sunni heartland to advise and assist fragile Iraqi forces being built up to try to retake territory lost to Islamic State. The plan to expand the 3,100-strong U.S. contingent in Iraq and open a new[…]
On one side of a small mountain bordering Dohuk and Nineveh provinces in northern Iraq, rows of soldiers march in green fatigues and red berets, rifles slung across their shoulders. On the other side is Mosul, the de facto Iraqi capital for fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and[…]
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