BAGHDAD: Security forces entered Iraq’s largest refinery for the first time Tuesday after months of battling ISIS militants who had surrounded it, a police...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces entered the country's largest refinery for the first time Tuesday after months of battling ISIS militants who had...
BAGHDAD: The systematic massacre of hundreds of Iraq’s Albu Nimr tribe by ISIS militants should have been an unmistakable wake-up call for a country that may...
BAGHDAD: Islamic State's systematic massacre of hundreds of Iraq's Albu Nimr tribe should have been an unmistakable wake up call for a country that may not be...
BAGHDAD: Iraq's most influential Shiite authority said Friday that corruption in the armed forces had enabled ISIS to seize much of northern Iraq,...
BAGHDAD: Iraq's most senior Shiite authority called on the government Friday to rush to the aid of Sunni tribes battling ISIS, after the militant group...
SURUC, Turkey/BAGHDAD: U.S.-led airstrikes hit ISIS positions around the Syrian border town of Kobani on Friday in an apparent bid to pave the way for...
BAGHDAD: ISIS militants executed at least 220 Iraqis in retaliation against a tribe’s opposition to the jihadist group’s takeover of territory west of...
BAGHDAD: Lt. Gen. Mahdi Gharawi knew an attack was coming. In late May, Iraqi security forces arrested seven members of militant group ISIS in Mosul and...
BAGHDAD: When ISIS fighters tried to storm the Tigris River town of Dhuluiya north of Baghdad this week, they were repelled by a rare coalition of Sunni...
BAGHDAD: ISIS militants are changing tactics in the face of U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq, ditching conspicuous convoys in favor of motorcycles and...
BAGHDAD: Around 200 Iraqi soldiers were trapped in an army camp in western Iraq Wednesday, besieged by ISIS militants who routed hapless army forces in a raid...
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry this week that airstrikes on ISIS militants should not kill...
BAGHDAD/DUBAI: Sometimes they came pretending to buy things. Sometimes they texted, sometimes they called, but the message was always the same: “Give us...
BAGHDAD: Tribal leaders and preachers from Iraq's Sunni heartland said Friday that they would be willing under certain conditions to join a new government...
BAGHDAD: Iraq's most influential religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, threw his weight Friday behind the new prime minister, calling for...
BAGHDAD: The governor of Iraq's Sunni heartland Anbar Province said he has asked for and secured U.S. support in the battle against Islamic State of Iraq and...
BAGHDAD: After fleeing from Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria militants, thousands of ethnic Yazidis stranded on a mountain were hoping that Iraqi...
BAGHDAD: Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) fighters seized control of Iraq's biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns Sunday after...
BAGHDAD: Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his security officials are to blame for the rise of Sunni insurgents who have seized parts of Iraq, the...
BAGHDAD: Iraq's parliament elected a senior Kurdish lawmaker president on Thursday, a significant step in a delayed process to create a government capable of...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces have withdrawn from the militant-held city of Tikrit after their new offensive met heavy resistance, in a blow to the government effort...
NAJAF, Iraq: Responding to an appeal from Shiite religious scholars, Salah al-Waili signed up earlier this month with a militia near Baghdad fighting the...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi government forces backed by helicopter gunships began an offensive on Saturday to retake the northern city of Tikrit from Sunni Islamist...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi helicopters fired on a university campus in Tikrit Friday to dislodge insurgents who overran the city in an onslaught that has given them...