(Reuters) U.S. and Iraqi officials believe the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left operational commanders behind with diehard followers to fight the battle of Mosul,
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(Reuters) The Kurdish group which controls Iraq’s Kirkuk oilfields has reached an agreement with Baghdad to keep crude flowing from the region through a pipeline to a Turkish
(Reuters) Iraq will continue to hit Islamic State targets in Syria, as well as in neighboring countries if they give their approval, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on
(Reuters) Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday it was unfortunate that some of Turkey’s allies had chosen the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia as a partner in the
(Reuters) U.S.-backed Syrian militias will tighten the chokehold on Islamic State’s base in Raqqa, after cutting the last main road out of the city, a spokesman
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The defeat of Islamic State militants in Mosul is “inevitable”, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Tuesday during a tour of military deployments in western Mosul as
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State’s command has ordered senior leaders of a subsidiary militia in Mosul to withdraw to the Syrian city of Raqqa, the base of the
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State extremists executed late Monday eight civilians in the group’s stronghold town of Hawija, Kirkuk, for helping fellow locals flee the region, sources said.
(Reuters) U.S.-backed Syrian militias cut the last main road out of Islamic State-held Raqqa on Monday, severing the highway between the group’s de facto capital and
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Authorities in Kirkuk province have run into a mass grave containing the bodies of Kurdish Peshmerga troops, officials say. Shakhwan Abdullah, a member of the Iraqi