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The International Union of Muslim Scholars, led by influential Sunni cleric Dr Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, released a statement on Friday concerning the recent declaration of a “caliphate” by the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIS). The union said that the caliphate declaration is “null and void” and “lacks any realistic ...

Based on territorial gains in Syria and Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), the recent declaration of an Islamic State (Khilafah) has laid to waste President Obama’s claim that the U.S. (having withdrawn military forces from Iraq in 2011) left behind “a sovereign, stable and self-reliant ...

The head of the Samarra Special Operation Command says militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group are escaping en masse from Salaheddin province as Iraqi troops score more victories in their fight against ISIL terrorists. “Iraqi security forces have won great victories against ...

WASHINGTON — The threat posed by a network of Sunni extremists sweeping through Iraq and Syria is changing the political calculus in the Middle East, Israeli President Shimon Peres said in an interview this weekend after receiving the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington. Israel, he said, is no longer the ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) has reportedly declared the areas it occupies in Iraq and Syria as a new Islamic state, removing Iraq and the Levant from its name and ushering in “a new era of international jihad”. The announcement will see the Isis now simply ...

Iraqi cleric Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr has vowed to “shake the ground” under the feet of the ISlamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists.Sadr, whose movement long battled US occupation forces in Iraq, also voiced opposition Wednesday to American military advisers meeting with Iraqi commanders.“We will shake the ground ...

BAGHDAD — Whether a person is a Shia or a Sunni Muslim in Iraq can now be, quite literally, a matter of life and death. As the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, has seized vast territories in western and northern Iraq, there have been frequent accounts of fighters’ ...

Iraq’s army has thwarted a fresh attack by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists on the Baiji oil refinery, killing scores of militants, Iraq’s Army Spokesman General Qassim Atta said. The ISIL terrorists using eleven vehicles had launched an assault on the Baiji oil refinery. ...

A prominent Iraqi cleric has said that militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) must be expelled from the country before it gets too late. Sheikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai who is a representative of Iraq’s top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said the al-Qaeda-linked ...

Iraq’s army has regained full control over towns in Diyala province that Takfiri militants had overrun a few days ago This comes as Iraqi security forces continue to fight the militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by launching counter-offensives in the city of al-Muqdadiyah. ...