Civilian Deaths Soar In Iraq, Syria
The US-led coalition attacking the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria killed as many as 744 civilians in June, an independent monitor said Wednesday. Airwars -- a London-based collective of...
Tag: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
ISIS Admits Its Leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi Is Dead
ISIS has finally admitted its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, according to reports in Iraq. The terror group is said to have confirmed that the 45-year-old was killed in an air strike in the...
Tunisia Tries 21 Over Deadly Bardo Attack
A trial opened in Tunisia on Tuesday over the 2015 attack on the Bardo museum that killed 21 foreign tourists and a police officer, court officials said. Two gunmen opened fire at the National Bardo...
IS Chief Reported Dead After Jihadists Lose Mosul
Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reported dead on Tuesday, a day after Iraq declared it had driven the jihadists from their one-time biggest stronghold of Mosul. The Syrian...
Boko Haram Executes Eight For Defying ‘Sharia Police’
Boko Haram have publicly executed eight villagers in northeast Nigeria who opposed the enforcement of its hardline form of Islam, according to a graphic video seen by AFP. The eight were blindfolded...
Mosul’s Once-Thriving Old City Now A Grey Wasteland
Once the beating heart of Iraq's second-largest metropolis, the Old City of Mosul is now a broken wreck, its winding streets piled high with rubble and hardly a building spared from destruction....
Syria Monitor Says IS Chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Dead
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Tuesday it had information from top Islamic State group leaders confirming the death of the jihadist organisation's chief Abu Bakr...
UN Rights Chief Urges Justice and Healing After Mosul
UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called Tuesday for accountability and dialogue to heal the trauma of Mosul after Iraqi troops retook the country's second city from the Islamic State group. Zeid...
Amnesty Calls For Commission To Probe Mosul Crimes
Amnesty International on Tuesday called for a commission to investigate crimes against civilians in Mosul by all sides in the battle to liberate the Iraqi city from jihadists. "The horrors that the...
Trump Congratulates Iraqi PM On Mosul ‘victory’
President Donald Trump on Monday hailed the "victory" of Iraqi forces over the Islamic State group in the northern city of Mosul. The retaking of the devastated city after nearly nine months of...
India Begins Search For Missing Citizens After Mosul Victory
India on Monday announced it will send a top minister to Iraq in an effort locate dozens of its missing citizens after Mosul was all but recaptured from the Islamic State group. Thirty-nine Indian...
Iraqi Troops Clearing Last IS Militants
Iraqi security forces are clearing the final pockets of resistance by Islamic State militants in the city of Mosul. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi went to Mosul on Sunday to congratulate his troops...
Iraqi Forces Push To Clear Last Pockets of IS In Mosul
Iraqi forces fought to eliminate the last pockets of Islamic State group resistance in Mosul on Monday after the premier visited the devastated city to congratulate troops on securing victory. With...
Iraqi Forces Fight To Clear Last Jihadists From Mosul
Iraqi forces engaged in "heavy" fighting with the Islamic State group on Monday as they battled to clear the last jihadist-held pockets in Mosul's Old City, a senior commander said. Iraqi Prime...
UK Warns More To Do To Combat IS After Mosul Victory
Britain's Defence Minister Michael Fallon praised Iraq on Sunday for defeating the Islamic State group in Mosul but warned that more has to be done to combat the jihadists. Earlier on Sunday Iraq...
World Jihad’s Low-Profile Boss
Discreet in his youth and invisible as the world's most wanted man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rose through the ranks quietly and patiently to become global jihad's undisputed supremo. The reclusive...
Mosul Loss Huge, But Not Deadly, Blow To ‘caliphate’
Mosul was the largest city in the "caliphate" proclaimed by the Islamic State group and its loss is a huge blow to the jihadists' statehood experiment -- but not a fatal one. The northern Iraqi city...
Iraq’s Second City and Cultural Jewel
Mosul, wrested from the Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday, is Iraq's second city and one of its cultural jewels. The jihadists seized it in a lightning offensive in June 2014 that humiliated...
The Islamic State Group In Iraq, Syria
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory Sunday in the "liberated" city of Mosul, the Islamic State group's last urban stronghold in Iraq, as the IS Syria bastion Raqa is surrounded. -...
Exhausted and Mourning, Families Emerge From Mosul Ruins
With the battle to retake Iraq's Mosul from the Islamic State group drawing to an end, dozens of women and their children emerge exhausted and grief-stricken from the ruins. Around 15 women and...