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 ...
Read More »Muqtada Sadr calls for a military parade across Iraq
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 ...
Read More »America’s Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq
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 ...
Read More »Iraqi women commit suicide after being raped by ISIL
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 ...
Read More »Repent or die: al-Qaeda forces announce rules for Iraqi territory they now control
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham has set out a list of rules for residents of Mosul as it seeks to impose its Islamist rules on Iraq’s second city. Referring to the area by its ancient name, Nineveh, the group says it has a clear set of instructions for ...
Read More »Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani calls on Iraqi civilians to fight ISIS
Top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani called Friday for Iraqis to take up arms against “terrorists” who have overrun swathes of the country in a major offensive. “Citizens who are able to bear arms and fight terrorists, defending their country and their people and their holy places, should volunteer ...
Read More »ISIS seizes Tikrit as US mulls drone intervention
Militants have seized the Iraqi city of Tikrit as a jihadi offensive sweeps closer to Baghdad, prompting the UN Security Council to convene crisis talks Thursday while the US mulls air strikes on the rebels. The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) seized the second city of Mosul on ...
Read More »ISIS “success” facilitated by betrayal, Iraqi government inadequacies
Baghdad is in a state of panic. The streets are empty. Gunmen are 20 kilometers (12.42 miles) away from the capital. Popular forces armed by the state are deployed around the city to protect its residents from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). All eyes are on Diyala, ...
Read More »ISIL’s Al-Adnanai vows battle will “Rage” in Baghdad, Karbala
The spokesman for the terrorist group, the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani vowed that the battle in Iraq will “rage” in the capital and the holy city of Karbala, a day after the terrorists seized the northern city of Mosul. “Do not relent against your ...
Read More »Iran won’t tolerate violence in Iraq: Rouhani
Iran’s president says the Islamic Republic will not tolerate violence and terror as foreign-backed Takfiri militants wreak havoc in northern Iraq. “As the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will not tolerate the [acts of] violence and terror and we fight violence and terrorism in the region and ...
Read More »