Members of the Iraqi parliament have voted on a new government, a key moment for the country as it tries to mount a counter-offensive against the Islamic State group, according to Iraq stateTV. Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abbadi is trying to cobble together a cabinet, which is scheduled to be approved[…]
The United States has begun carrying out air strikes near Iraq’s Haditha Dam which was under threat from Islamic State (IS) fighters, a US defence official has said. It is the first time that the US is targeting IS fighters in the area as the group tries to capture the[…]
“As much as many Iraqi’s and Syrians dislike ISIS, they have greater problems with their own regimes. Because of this, they are willing to put up with what they view as the lesser of two evils”. These were the words of Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC) researcher, Omar Shaukat, addressing the[…]
A significant number of Islamic State group fighters have withdrawn from northern Iraqi cities, officials in Tikrit and Mosul say, as government forces prepare for another major ground and air offensive. Sources told Al Jazeera that security forces had entered the outskirts of Tikrit from three directions, including Tikrit University[…]
The UN Human Rights Council has unanimously agreed to send an emergency mission to Iraq to investigate Islamic State (IS) atrocities, as Baghdad warned the country was “facing a terrorist monster”. The 47 members of the United Nations’ top rights body reached their decision on Monday after spending the day[…]
Iraqi Kurdish forces and Shia armed volunteers have retaken more northern towns from the Islamic State group, killing at least two of its senior fighters, sources have told Al Jazeera. A day after breaking the siege in the town of Amerli north of Baghdad, government forces retook the town of[…]
More than 400 people have left Germany to join militant groups in Iraq and Syria, and at least five have died in suicide bombings, the chief of Germany’s domestic security agency said Sunday. “We have to expect that these people will return and commit attacks here,” Hans-Georg Maassen, the chief[…]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday slammed “brutal killings of civilians” by Islamic State rebels in northern Iraq, saying the Sunni radical group was tearing apart whole communities. The rebels have taken control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria, and have declared a “caliphate” in the territory they[…]
Mass killings, systematic rape and enslavement have become the calling cards of the Sunni extremist group Islamic State in the parts of Iraq it now controls, the top UN human rights official said Monday. The group is committing “horrific” human rights abuses every day, Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner[…]
Sunni politicians in Iraq have suspended talks to form a new government, in protest of a mass killing inside a mosque in the northeastern province of Diyala. In a statement on Saturday, Salim al-Jabouri, speaker of the Iraqi parliament, denounced as “terrorists” the Shia armed group suspected of killing at[…]
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