Iraq Conflict

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  Iraq's Sinjar Remains In Ruins Even A Decade After ISIS Horrors

  The area near the Syrian border still bears the scars of the fighting in 2014- it was here that the jihadists committed some of their worst atrocities, including mass executions and sexual slavery, before being dislodged by Kurdish forces

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  Iraqi Forces Near Mosul Mosque Where ISIS Declared 'Caliphate'

  Elite Iraqi forces battled house by house in the Old City of Mosul on Saturday, inching towards the mosque where the ISIS proclaimed its 'caliphate' in 2014, a spokesman said.

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  Iraq Drone Strike Mistake Kills 9 Militiamen: Spokesman

  An Iraqi drone strike killed nine members of the pro-government Popular Mobilisation paramilitary force near Tikrit in an apparent case of so-called "friendly fire", a spokesman said Sunday.

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  Iraq Defence Minister Predicts Ramadi Victory By Year's End

  Iraq's Defence Minister predicted today that security forces backed by US-led coalition air strikes would retake full control of the city of Ramadi by the end of the year.

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  US Troops in Iraq's Anbar as Anti-Islamic State Campaign Expands

  A team of US troops was on the ground in Iraq's Anbar province on Tuesday as Washington steps up efforts to help Iraqi forces battle the Islamic State jihadist group.

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  Iraq Kurds to Send up to 200 Fighters to Syria Next Week

  Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region will send next week up to 200 fighters from its peshmerga security forces to aid the embattled Syrian town of Kobane, a spokesman said on Friday.

• Suicide Car Bomb Kills 10 in Iraq's Baquba

  A suicide car bomb blast at a police checkpoint in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Thursday killed at least 10 people and wounded 11, security and medical sources said.

• As Iraqi Body Count Grows, Shi'ites Start to Demand Answers

  As an undertaker in Iraq's Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala, Faris al-Kaa'bi has had an unusually busy summer. His niche is burying the bodies of the unclaimed and the unidentified from all over Iraq, which in the last few months has meant hundreds of victims of the fight against Sunni Islamist militants.

• Iraq Prime Minister Abadi Retires Two Top Generals After Islamic State Conquests

  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi retired two senior generals on Tuesday as part of an overhaul of armed forces that collapsed this summer in the face of Islamic State insurgents who seized wide areas of northern and western Iraq.

• Car Bomb Attack Kills Eight People in Baghdad

  Iraqi authorities say a car bomb blast near a Shiite mosque has killed eight people in Baghdad.

• US Conducts 14 Strikes on Islamic State Fighters

  US aircraft conducted 14 air strikes against Islamic State militants near Iraq's largest dam in the past 24 hours, officials said Wednesday, amid IS threats to kill a second US journalist.

• Barack Obama: Iraq has Regained Control of Mosul Dam

  President Barack Obama says the recapturing of Mosul dam in northern Iraq by Iraqi and Kurdish forces is a "major step forward" in the battle against Islamic State militants.

• Barack Obama Orders Action to Prevent Iraq 'Genocide'

  President Barack Obama ordered US warplanes back into the skies over Iraq on Thursday to drop food to refugees and, if necessary, launch air strikes to halt what he said was a potential "genocide."

• 17 More Indians Evacuated From Iraq

  India has evacuated 17 more of its nationals from the conflict zone of Iraq with the help of local authorities taking the total number of those rescued so far to 34 and also advised its citizens to leave on voluntary basis by commercial means in view of the "fragile" security situation.

• At Least 1,075 Killed in Iraq in June: United Nations

  At least 1,075 people, the vast majority of them civilians, have been killed in Iraq during June as a Sunni insurgency overtakes key areas of the country, the United Nations said on Tuesday.