As U. S.-backed Iraqi forces close in on the Islamic State's hub of Mosul, the leader of the terror network has become so insecure about his own safety that he refuses to emerge from his underground...
Iraqi security forces have discovered two mass graves near the city of Mosul containing around 250 bodies, police said Thursday. The graves were found near the town of Hammam al-Alil and were created...
Islamic State has summarily killed 21 civilians in Mosul it accused of collaborating with U. S.-backed security forces, which said their offensive to recapture the city from the jihadists had made...
The crowd surges for the truck as soon as it arrives. Children are crying as they’re passed along a production line of strangers up into the back of the vehicle’s high-walled metal tray. Mothers,...
A suicide bomber killed six people near Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Monday at the start of a major Shi'ite Muslim ritual, an attack claimed by the hardline Sunni militants of Islamic State. The...
Portual won the Euros for the first time in history New chemotherapy breakthroughs have increased the 5-year survival for pancreatic cancer from 16% to 27% (and is getting better) Child mortality is...
ga fighter decided to invest in an armored car, but he had little clue the vehicle would end up saving the lives of dozens of people. After shopping around, he settled on a bulletproof BMW, and paid...
Iraqi soldiers drive into to Shahrezad village east of Mosul, Iraq Iraqi special forces said they pushed deeper into Mosul on Friday despite heavy resistance from Islamic State militants using...
So-called Islamic State (IS) shot dead 40 civilians on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after accusing them of treason, the United Nations says. Their bodies were then hung from...
Men dressed in Iraqi federal police uniforms are reported to have tortured and killed residents of villages south of Mosul, Amnesty International says. Evidence gathered by the group suggests up to...
The next US President will have a lot of global challenges to deal with, and the Middle East is one of them. Here's what you need to know. Trump on the Middle East "If I become President, the era of...
Six stories you may have missed because of US election Iraqi Kurdish forces seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from ISIL, an official said While the US presidential race between Donald Trump and...
Five people linked to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group have been arrested in co-ordinated raids in Germany, including a senior Islamist figure, reports say. Flats were raided in northern and...
US Secretary of State, John Kerry has touted the United States’ engagement around the world and efforts it has put into supporting people, around the globe. The US, he said, was through various...
Since the Iraqi army took control of Kokejli, the town has come under heavy bombardment from ISIS Along the main road connecting Mosul city centre with Erbil, hundreds of families could be seen...
Wealthy officials from Qatar and Saudi Arabia who donated money to Hillary Clinton's charitable foundation also provided financial support to Isis, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed. In an...
The Iraqi prime minister has warned so-called Islamic State (IS) militants fighting in Mosul to lay down their weapons if they want to live, state media reports. Speaking on a visit to the front line...
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told his followers on Thursday there could be no retreat in a "total war" against the forces arrayed against them, as advancing soldiers battled the...
The Islamic State attack was in response to calls to target citizens of coalition countries. A follower of Islamic State was responsible for a stabbing attack on two youths in the German city of...
The US government has ordered all civilian family members of its Istanbul consulate staff to leave Turkey because of increasing threats from terrorist organizations, according to a travel warning...
