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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. ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has expressed Iran’s strong opposition to US interference in Iraq’s internal affairs. Addressing a meeting with Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani and judicial officials in Tehran on Sunday, the Leader added that arrogant Western powers led by the US ...

Members of Australia’s Iraqi community have rallied in Sydney and Melbourne against insurgent group ISIS and its actions in Iraq. ‘Australian brothers’ call in ISIS video The protesters say they are from different ethnic and religious groups, but have joined together to support the Iraqi government. Protesters told SBS they are ...

The Iraqi army forces have killed one of the top commanders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Takfiris in Tikrit as they continue to push back the terrorists. Saudi national Abu Khabib al-Jazaeeri, was killed on Thursday during the clashes in Baiji, north of Tikrit. The ...

Takfiri terrorists, fighting together to capture swathes of Iraqi territory, have turned their weapons on each other during clashes in Kirkuk province that left 17 of them dead, sources say. The fighting erupted on Friday evening between the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the so-called ...

One of the more remarkable aspects of the recent news coverage of Iraq — the Maliki government’s loss of control over the northern region of the country, the deadly confrontations taking place between Iraqis and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL or ISIS), and the clashes between Kurds and the Islamic ...

Ayatollah Hussaini Bushehri, leading the Friday prayers in the holy city of Qum, at the shrine of Lady Fatima al-Ma’suma (s), spoke about the situation in Iraq, the role of America, the virtues of the month of Ramadhan and the responsibility of the scholars in the blessed month. His eminence ...

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. ...

Ayatollah Abbas-Ali Soleymani, the representative of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, in the province of Sistan and Bolouchestan and the Friday prayer leader of Zahedan, has explained that the actions and behaviours of the terrorist groups “The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ...