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One of Iraq’s most senior politicians has warned that the country could ask Iran to carry out air strikes against the jihadist group, Isis – if the United States continues to refuse to do so. Speaking exclusively to The Huffington Post UK, Dr Haider Al-Abadi, a member of the Iraqi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

It would be an understatement to say that Iran does not have an interest in the Iraqi parliamentary elections held April 30, and far too simplistic to conclude that Tehran is backing the current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, for a third term. The Iran-Iraq relationship is a complex mosaic of ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of openly funding the insurgents his troops are battling in western Anbar province, in his strongest such statement since fighting started there early this year. Security forces have been fighting insurgents from the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq ...