Some 900 people have fled the Iraqi city of Mosul and crossed the border into Syria, the UN refugee agency says. This is the first large group of civilians confirmed to have escaped since the Iraqi...
The fight in Mosul is projected to last 60 days The battle to recapture Mosul from ISIS could take two months, a Peshmerga military commander told CNN on Tuesday, the second day of the long-awaited...
Kurdish forces are rolling in from the east The EU should be prepared for returning jihadists if the so-called Islamic State (IS) is driven out of its Iraqi stronghold, Mosul, an official warns....
Iraqi pro-government forces have made gains at the start of a large-scale operation to retake Mosul, the last major stronghold of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in the country. Iraqi government...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of military operations to liberate the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants early Monday, launching...
ISIS in hot water as battle for Mosul begins The offensive to liberate Mosul from ISIS control has begun, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a televised statement early Monday. The fight is...
The Iraqi Air Force dropped thousands of leaflets over Mosul on Saturday night to warn residents of a looming offensive on the ISIS-held city. "It's victory time," blares a headline on the...
No one has claimed the attack that has left at least 30 people dead in Baghdad At least 30 people have died in a suicide attack targeting Shia in Iraq's capital Baghdad, officials say. More than 60...
Two of the dismissed recruits of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have revealed on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that, they have received offers from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Boko Haram...
Security Analyst, Irbard Ibrahim, has described the discourse around the dismissal of some 501 military recruits in December 2015 as worrying. The peace ambassador and governance expert in an...
Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres has been officially appointed as the next UN secretary general. Mr Guterres, 67, will become the world’s top diplomat on 1 January when Ban...
Trump’s threat to jail Clinton invites his own prosecution The verbal knife fight between Clinton and Trump at their 2nd debate Because my teenage daughter needed a ride home from her friend's...
“I apologise unequivocally. If I am able to get the opportunity to talk to the president, I will definitely apologise vehemently and if I’m not able to, I’m doing so through your outfit. I do...
“I have often spoken of rumors as ‘terrorism,’ of how you can kill a person with the tongue…If this is valid for an individual person, in the family or at work, so much more it’s valid for...
More than two-thirds of the foreigners seeking to join the Islamic State (IS) group have attended high school or university, according to a new study by the World Bank. Many of the young recruits who...
Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres was officially nominated by the UN Security Council on Thursday to succeed Ban Ki-moon as the next United Nations secretary-general. The 15-member...
Antonio Guterres led the UNHCR through the major crises in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next UN secretary general, UN...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Tuesday the group would publish about one million documents related to the U. S. election and three governments in coming weeks, but denied the release was...
A gun-toting Iraqi housewife has boasted of beheading Islamic State (Isis) militants before boiling their heads in cooking pots. Grandmother Wahida Mohamed Al-Jumaily says her brutal treatment of the...
---Gordon Offin-Amaniampong examines the political jigsaw: Or what the writer calls the ‘Trump Three-Tier-Trap.” I get this question a lot. The latest was yesterday: “I hear people saying that...
