At least 73 people have been killed after a Shia Muslim armed group opened fired inside an Iraqi Sunni mosque in the country’s eastern Diyala province, medical sources have said. A security source said bodies had been arriving at the hospital in the city of Baquba in Diyala province on[…]
EXCLUSIVE – The Iraqi ambassador to South Africa, Dr Hisham al-Alawi says he has received “credible reports” that several South African citizens have been killed while fighting for the Islamic State (IS). The reports come as the region struggles to come to grips with the radical groups rise in northern[…]
The president of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, on Thursday called the actions of Islamic State “embarrassing” to the religion and urged Islamic leaders to unite in tackling extremism. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the scale of the slaughter wrought by the extremists in overrunning large swathes of Iraq[…]
As global Muslim leaders continue to rebuke the actions of the Islamic State (IS), the Jamiatul Ulama South Africa has added its voice in condemning the reported acts of brutality and mass murders of the people of Iraq and Syria. The IS, or ISIS as they were formally known, is[…]
Washington and Damascus are “not on the same page” in the fight against their common enemy the Islamic State, whose rebels have declared a “caliphate” straddling swathes of Iraq and Syria, US officials said Monday. The United States has been battling IS insurgents just over the Syrian border in Iraq[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Nouri al-Maliki has finally bowed to pressure within Iraq and beyond and stepped down as prime minister, paving the way for a new coalition that world and regional powers hope can quash the Islamic State group. “I announce before you today, to ease the movement of the political process and[…]
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[…]
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