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Iraq’s president on Monday named Haider al-Abadi as the country’s new prime minister, an appointment that came amid speculation that the embattled incumbent, Nouri al-Maliki, would cling to power even after his country had dissolved into chaos and the United States made it clear that it would not support him as ...

A commander with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was recently killed while on a “jihadi mission” in Iraq, officials in Lebanon said Thursday. The officials, who are close to the Shiite Hezbollah, said that Ibrahim Mohammed al-Haj was killed sometime in the past week. They did not provide any details ...

An 18-year-old Australian man was behind a deadly suicide bomb attack in Iraq last week, authorities said Monday, with Attorney-General George Brandis calling it a “disturbing development.” The blast last Thursday near a mosque in Baghdad left several dead, including the teenager, who left Melbourne for the region last year. ...

The Iraqi army has regained almost full control of the province of Diyala, amid the brutal militancy that rages in the country. Iraqi officials said on Friday that the armed forces are in full control of all areas of the eastern province except for the Sa’adiyah district, which is still ...

A spokesman for the Office of the Adjutant General of the Iraqi armed forces has said that his country has returned 130 military aircraft to Iraq, which were held in Iran for more than 20 years. General Qassim Atta explained in a televised press statement that the Iranian authorities have ...

More than 2 million Iraqis have volunteered to fight against militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Iraqi Energy Minister Hussein al-Shahristani says. The government has no capacity to process any more volunteers, he adds. “No one knows when this battle will end, but we will ...

Watching mainstream media get into a tizzy about the prospect of “groundbreaking military cooperation” between Iran and the US, is quite pathetic. Aside from US official statements, the basis of this misplaced enthusiasm is the much trumpeted Rouhani press conference where he declared that “If we see that the United ...

The mask has fallen. Mosul is governed by former officers of the old army and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) controls the top administrative positions in the city. Three days were sufficient to uncover the conspiracy facing Iraq. ISIS began calling around the city that it came ...

Iraqi security forces and local tribesmen have thwarted an attack by ISIL terrorist elements in a strategic city in Nineveh province. According to reports on Sunday, at least 18 insurgents belonging to the so-called ISIL were killed and five vehicles destroyed after the attack on Tal Afar was repelled. Militants ...

The mayor of Iraq’s city of Salahuddin has confirmed that the army retook large parts of the city after it fell to rebels from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL). Mayor Ahmed Abdullah said in a statement that the army had retaken the districts of Ad-Duluiya, ...