Publisher -

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…

(Loveday Morris, Adam Taylor, Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister declared an end to Islamic State's hold on Iraqi territory on Thursday as government forces recaptured the site of a historic…

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Wednesday began a push towards the mosque in Mosul where the Islamic State declared a so-called caliphate three years ago, military officials said.A flag of Islamic State militants is seen…

MOSUL, Iraq — Iraqi forces faced snipers, mortar fire and booby traps as they launched an assault on Mosul's Old City on Sunday, entering a maze of narrow streets and alleys where hundreds of militants Islamic State hardliners should make…

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Friday captured one of four districts in the Islamic State-held enclave of Mosul, a military statement said.Elite Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) units took Sihha district about a week into…

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,…

Security forces launched a large-scale military operation on Saturday to take over the remaining neighborhoods under ISIS control in western Mosul, the country's Joint Operations Command said.The soldiers storm the Shifa district and the al…

By Maher Chmaytelli, Isabel ColesBAGHDAD/MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The Iraqi Air Force dropped leaflets on Friday urging residents of the Islamic State-held center of Mosul's Old City to flee, sparking fears among groups aid for the safety of…

By Isabel Coles, Ahmed RasheedMOSUL/BAGDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces battled on Monday to retake areas of western Mosul still under Islamic State control, aiming to secure victory ahead of the holy month of Ramadan.A member of the Federal…

Iraqi forces backed by the US-led coalition are stepping up operations against a resurgent Islamic State (IS) in remote desert border areas, according to Iraqi and US officials. While much of the international attention is focused on the…

Iraqi security forces are increasing pressure to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria out of western Mosul, Iraq, Navy Captain Jeff Davis, director of press operations, told reporters today. Pentagon. !--image-->…

BAGHDAD — Just after dawn on Thursday morning, Iraqi forces began a push along the northern edge of the western half of Mosul where Islamic State group fighters are clinging to a cluster of neighborhoods, the ministry spokesman said. of…

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…

MOSUL/BAGDAD, IRAQ — Iraqi forces have gained ground in door-to-door fighting in the old city of Mosul, a military spokesman said on Monday, as the US-backed offensive to capture the de facto capital of Islamic State in Iraq was entering…

BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces launched a new attack on the Islamic State in Mosul's Old City on Sunday, military officials said, trying to break the deadlock in attempts to seize the militants' last stronghold. Mosul, Iraq's second-largest…

Iraqi police say taking over al-Kur and al-Tawafa will allow civilians to move to safer areas.Iraqi forces in Mosul said they had captured two key neighborhoods in their offensive to retake the western part of the city from the Islamic…

Published on: 03/13/2017 - 07:49Amended: 03/13/2017 - 08:56 Iraqi forces have retaken a third of western Mosul…

IRBIL, Iraq — Iraqi forces claimed to have recaptured Mosul's main government compound from Islamic State on Tuesday, marking a strategic and symbolic advance in the northern city at the heart of the militant group's self-proclaimed…

Nearly three weeks into the final phase of the Battle of Mosul, Iraqi forces have begun to push into the most heavily fortified and deadliest corners of the ruined city.This weekend, the fighting in the city, the last urban stronghold of…

By Isabel Coles, Maher ChmaytelliMOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi forces captured the second of Mosul's five bridges on Monday, boosting their attack on the Islamic State's last stronghold in the western part from the…

Iraqi security forces recaptured Mosul International Airport in Iraq after days of heavy fighting to liberate western Mosul from the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the commander of Combined Joint Task Force…

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…

Amnesty International released a report yesterday detailing how tribal fighters aligned with the Iraqi government are torturing and humiliating civilians who lived in areas southeast of Mosul that were recently recaptured from Daesh. The…

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…

…

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…

In this file photo from September 1, 2014, Shiite militiamen hold the flag of the Islamic State group that they captured, during an operation outside Amirli, about 170 kilometers north of Baghdad.The Associated PressIraqi Shiite militias…

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-->…