October 2016

An Iraqi paramilitary coordination group made up of Iranian-backed Shiite militias has been ordered to cut the Islamic State (IS) militant group's access to Syria in northern Iraq, in a bid to prevent thousands of jihadists fleeing to the…

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ASQUF, Iraq — A force of thousands of Kurdish and Iraqi army soldiers wrested territory from Islamic State outside the northern city of Mosul on Monday, facing sometimes fierce resistance at the start of the war. a long-promised…

Iraqi militia fighters are flocking to Syria to bolster the Assad regime's rebel headquarters in Aleppo, further complicating the tangled web of alliances the United States relies on to fight the Islamic State, which can turn an ally into…