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As the regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan (KRG) has announcement victory in the referendum on Iraqi independence, there is an increased risk of military escalation between Kurdish and Iraqi forces and militias in disputed areas,…

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah recently angered Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi after he organized the expulsion of hundreds of IS fighters from Syria and Lebanon to!-->…

On September 15, Iraqi forces outside the city of Akashat in Anbar province prepare for military operations against the Islamic State. (Moadh Al-Dulaimi/AFP/Getty Images) IRBIL, Iraq — Iraqi forces backed by US airstrikes launched…

A little-noticed provision to arm Iraqi Christians in the house version of a defense bill to be passed inadvertently fuels unrest between rival militias in the Nineveh Plains, an Iraqi melting pot. The non-binding provision, inserted by…

Several years ago, the United States debated providing the Syrian rebels with high-tech weapons such as anti-tank and surface-to-air missiles. Critics have argued that the weapons could fall into the hands of "terrorist organizations"…

By Thaier Al-Sudani, Kawa OmarTAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have taken over almost all of Tal Afar, the Islamic State stronghold in the northwest of the country, the Iraqi army said on Sunday.After just eight days of fighting, all…

BAGHDAD/ERBIL — Iraqi forces have taken over almost all of Tal Afar, the Islamic State stronghold in the northwest of the country, the Iraqi army announced on Sunday.After just eight days of fighting, all 29 neighborhoods of Tal Afar town…

By Thaier Al-Sudani, Kawa OmarTAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi government forces broke through Islamic State lines inside Tal Afar on Friday, reaching the old city center and the area around the Ottoman-era citadel, according to a military…

ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have made further progress in their offensive to dislodge Islamic State from Tal Afar, seizing five more villages on the eastern and southern outskirts of the city, the Iraqi government said on Thursday.…

Members of the Iraqi Shia militia Imam Ali Brigades, part of the Shia Popular Mobilization Forces, rest during a live ammunition drill in Najaf, southern Iraq, on August 14. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said the Shia…

By Raya Jalabi, Ahmed RasheedBAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Five weeks after claiming victory in Mosul, Iraqi forces have taken up positions around the town of Tal Afar, their next objective in the U.S.-backed campaign to defeat militants…

An exclusive investigation by Kurdish broadcaster Rudaw has revealed that the Iranian-backed Shiite militia Hashd al-Shaabi trained hundreds of child soldiers in northern Iraq, in violation of international humanitarian law. Commanders of…

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces on Thursday regained control of Imam Gharbi, a village south of Mosul, from Islamic State militants who seized it as they defended their stronghold in the city was collapsing, Iraqi police said.The…

The last major Iraqi city held by Islamic State has been taken over by Iraqi government forces, the US-led coalition confirmed on Monday.Iraqi security forces continued to clear Mosul's old city of explosive devices, but "Mosul is now…

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi forces attacked the last Islamic State redoubt in the old city of Mosul on Friday, a day after hailing the end of the insurgents' self-declared caliphate with the capture of a historic mosque that…

Photo 1: Qassem Soleimani allegedly near the Syrian border with Iraqi militias, posted on May 29. Major General Qassem Soleimani, head of the extraterritorial operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Quds Force,…

Iraqi militiamen, who drove IS fighters out of the ancient city of Hatra this week, found that ISIS had destroyed relics more than 2,000 years old. "The carvings and carved images are destroyed, but the walls and towers of the Kingdom of…

Members of the Iraqi Badr Brigade, a Shiite militia, form the last line of defense between ISIS militiamen and the capital Baghdad on August 25, 2014. Photo: Jerome Starkey/ Flickr A new report from Amnesty International, released…

Report by Kalah Sur, Iraq - In significant departure from past policy, US-led forces in Iraq began to arm and train hundreds of fighters belonging to Shiite militias historically known for their ties to Iran.Sectarian militias are trained…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Islamic State militants staged near-simultaneous attacks on state-sanctioned militia positions west and south of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, apparently taking advantage of poor weather…

Security officials said on Wednesday that Iraqi-led forces had successfully cut Mosul from its western supply lines, with "Islamic State" (IS) now under siege in and around the city. The news was confirmed by Peshmerga sources, who said…

Iraqi Shiite militias say they hunted ISIL fighters from an airbase west of Mosul.Victory, if confirmed, would threaten the Sunni group's supply route from Syria to its last major stronghold in Iraq.#BREAKING: #PMF announce the full release…

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…

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…

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Iraqi government-backed militias are recruiting child soldiers from refugee camps, while staging a key operation against ISIS.Families said young boys were taken from a camp in northern Iraq earlier this month in the latest reported use of…

Iraqi militia leaders cite government 'corruption' The Iraqi popular militias do not plan to merge with the army, reports Jean Aziz from Beirut, where a meeting was held between diplomats and Western representatives, non-governmental…

Qassem Soliemani (left, green hat) and Abu Mahdi al Muhandis (right, black hat), visiting the battlefield near Fallujah. Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, the leader of the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Kata'ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Brigades) and…

The recent influx of Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia militias into Syria has helped swing the fight for Aleppo in favor of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and perhaps portends the emergence of the militias as "a more important and…

The violence raised tensions between the US military and US Embassy officials. Diplomats wanted the perpetrators of the murders brought to justice. Military officials were more willing to turn a blind eye.A US diplomat said senior…

BAGHDAD — In the scorching Baghdad night, sweat ran down the faces of Iraqi teenagers as they marched through a schoolyard, training to fight against the Islamic State group. It's a summer camp in Iraq, set up by the country's largest…

BAGHDAD — In the scorching Baghdad night, sweat ran down the faces of Iraqi teenagers as they marched through a schoolyard, training to fight against the Islamic State group.It's a summer camp in Iraq, set up by the country's largest…

BAGHDAD — Powerful Iraqi Shiite militias vow to drive Islamic State fighters out of Fallujah, sparking panic in the city where US Marines saw their bloodiest combat of the Iraq War. The militias' campaign to besiege the city 40 miles west…

Published on: 06/11/2015 - 17:25Amended: 06/11/2015 - 17:39 Iraqi Shiite militias told FRANCE 24 they had regained…

Iraqi militias have begun mobilizing towards the predominantly Sunni province of Anbar in a belated effort to push back the Islamic State, which seized the region's capital on Sunday."We urge our people in Anbar to stand firm and hold firm…

Republicans in the House of Representatives have proposed supporting irregular Kurdish Peshmerga and Sunni forces directly, rather than aiding US partners in the war against Islamic State through the Iraqi government which nominally…

Iraqi security forces and Shia militias destroyed entire villages and displaced thousands of Sunni civilians during a campaign against Islamic State in northern Iraq last fall, a national watchdog has said. rights.Human Rights Watch's new…

Volunteers from the Shia Badr Organization, who joined the Iraqi army to fight against the predominantly Sunni militants of the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who took control of Mosul and other northern…

Members of the Mehdi army militia, which once fought US…

In the Middle East, alliances have a strange way of shifting. And as the United States once again becomes deeply involved in the conflict in Iraq, it also finds itself making strange alliances.…

BAGHDAD: Shia militia forces executed 15 Sunni Muslims and then hanged them from electric poles in a public square in a town northeast of Baghdad yesterday, police said.A police officer at the scene in Baquba, a mixed Sunni-Shia town 65 km…

Things look set to get worse in Iraq. Sunni militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - now…

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces yesterday attacked a militant stronghold in the crisis-ridden Anbar province, while authorities found 14 bodies riddled with bullets in scenes reminiscent of the worst of Iraq's sectarian war.As parliamentary…

Stanford report, October 22, 2008 Through Dan Stober THE Cicero Army terrorism expert Col. Joseph Felter, national security affairs officer at the Hoover Institution, presented once-secret intelligence documents that…

Iraqi and US forces attacked a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad on Monday, triggering a shootout that left three people dead, while 12 others were killed elsewhere, including five at a hair salon that was pelted with gunfire!--#WIREFRAME:339-334-->…