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Militants taking-over parts of Iraq make no bones about broadcasting their reign of terror. Fresh footage from the ISIS-occupied territories shows Iraqi soldiers being taunted and executed by exuberant militants. Videos were published on one of the jihadist websites which appear to show the same event. A group of five ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has warned that Takfiri insurgents triggering terror within Iraq have nowhere to hide as the country’s armed forces are advancing toward their strongholds. Maliki made the remarks in a speech to volunteer fighters on Sunday at a military camp in Mahmoudiya, 30 kilometers south of ...

Iranian president Sheikh Hasan Rouhani asserted that Tehran is ready to respond to terrorism in Iraq at Baghdad’s request, noting that the Iraqis are able to eliminate the terrorists without being in need of a foreign intervention.Rouhani made the remarks in a televised press conference participated with over 200 domestic ...

Iraq’s Shi’a are mobilizing against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). In addition to fears of ISIS advances towards Baghdad, the Iraqi Shi’a threat perception is magnified by their desire to prevent an ISIS attack on the al-Askari shrine in Samarra. The February 2006 attack on the shrine ...

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 ...

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 ...