ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi counterterrorism forces on Sunday arrested “one of the most dangerous” members of the Islamic ...

The prisoners included those affiliated with Islamic State and those convicted of common crimes, according to an Iraqi ...

The US Embassy in Baghdad said Saturday that Washington remains deeply concerned about the continued operations and territorial expansions of the Daesh/ISIS and al-Qaeda terror groups, stressing that ...

European governments' refusal to take back citizens from refugee camps, while providing little economic support, plays a role in preventing the region from healing.

Outnumbered and outgunned in Syria and Iraq, Isis is expected to intensify the guerrilla campaigns that became its signature acts in both countries over the past 2½ years, in which it ran rampant ...

As an imam for the ISIS fighters remarked yesterday, Iraq has experimented with secular governments during the Ba’athist era, as well as during the monarchy that was overthrown in the Fifties.

Isis is a shadow of the powerful force that conquered an area the size of Britain across Iraq and Syria in 2014, ruling about 8m people. But last month its fighters staged a new offensive, killing ...

The ISIS group still has up to 500 active fighters in Iraq, a senior military official estimated Sunday in the country where extremist cells continue to launch sporadic attacks. But Iraqi General ...

‘A clear pattern is emerging whereby ISIS is deliberately targeting Iraq’s minorities as well as others suspected of opposing the group’ - Donatella Rovera The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) ...

I n the summer of 2014, Iraq was staring into the abyss. Isis controlled a third of the country and the army had collapsed. There was only one fighting force capable of leading the fightback.

Baghdad declared victory against ISIS just over a year ago, claiming the group had been reduced to a handful of lawless troops. Now, the militants are waging a fresh guerrilla campaign from their ...

The spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria declared the group’s chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the leader of the new caliphate, or Islamic state, and called on Muslims everywhere ...