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Islamist militants are closing in on Baghdad after capturing two towns north of Iraq’s capital. Officials said Iraqi soldiers abandoned their posts with no resistance when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) pushed into Diyala province. Militants driving machine gun-mounted pickups entered the towns of ...

British Muslims have been urged by one of the UK’s most senior Shia clerics not to fly to Iraq to battle militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) currently rampaging through the country. In a video appeal, Muslims were told on Friday they should not get involved in armed ...

A senior Hezbollah official Sheikh Naim Qassem says the United States and its regional allies are responsible for the spread of terrorism. On Saturday, the deputy secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah blamed the US and its allies for the spread of terrorism in the Middle East. Sheikh ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) – an al-Qaeda offshoot — has been careful to reveal little about himself and his whereabouts. There are only two authenticated photos of him, and unlike al-Qaeda leaders such as Osama Bin Laden and ...

Iraqi troops have managed to launch a massive operation against a large number of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants and destroyed a convoy of at least 200 vehicles belonging to ISIL near city of Samarra, Al-Alam reports. According to Al-Alam reporter, Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism ...

In the lasts few days, Saudi-funded, Salafi-Wahabi and Deobandi militants in Iraq have seized Mosul and Tikrit, two of the country’s most important cities, and are beginning to drive toward Baghdad. However, as Iraq faces collapse at the hands of the ISIS-ISIL terrorists, Western media continues to misinform and misrepresent ...

Iraqi forces have found equipment made by Arab countries of the Persian Gulf in Takfiri militants’ hideouts, Iraqi state TV says. The country’s security forces found the equipment in hideouts belonging to the al-Qaeda splinter Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Salah al-Din province, reports said on ...

Powerful Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on his supporters to hold a general military parade across the country next Saturday to enhance unity among Iraqis. “Our beloved country is surrounded by peril and enemies have invaded it. To boost unity and readiness, I call on all of you to ...

Heavily armed, well funded, and organized as a professional, standing army, the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept southward into Iraq from Turkey and northeastern Syria, taking the cities of Mosul and Tikrit, and now threaten the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad itself. The United ...

The number of people killed after extremist militants overran Mosul earlier this week may run into the hundreds, U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said Friday, highlighting disturbing reports including the suicide of four women after being raped by ISIL militants. He said his office had reports the killings included ...