Germany's Defense Ministry says it is stepping up arms supplies -- including armor-piercing missiles -- to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters battling Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq.
Officials and eyewitnesses say Islamic State (IS) militants have burned at least three people alive in Iraq's western Anbar Province.
Iraq's cabinet on February 3 approved a draft law on creating a National Guard, a move Sunni political leaders say is necessary for national reconciliation between Sunnis, Shi’a, and Kurds.
Iraqi officials say Kurdish Peshmerga forces have discovered another mass grave in northern Iraq containing the remains of about 25 members of the Yazidi minority, including women and children.
Iraq’s Trade Ministry says the country’s grain board chief has been removed from his post and replaced by a man who was previously sacked from the position.
A tribe elder in Iraq's western Anbar province has said Islamic State (IS) militants carried out execution-style killings of nearly 300 tribesmen.
The U.S. military has confirmed that a U.S.-led coalition has intensified air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Syria -- launching six attacks since October 7 near the city of Kobani on the border with Turkey.
Heavy fighting has continued in Iraq's Sunni-dominated Anbar Province between Islamic State (IS) militants and Iraqi government forces that are supported by U.S.-led coalition air strikes.
Angry relatives of Iraqi military cadets who are believed to have been massacred by Islamic State militants earlier this year gathered outside Baghdad’s parliament on September 16 to demand accountability and compensation.
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq reports that U.S. warplanes have carried out fresh air strikes against Islamic State militants near the strategic Haditha dam in Anbar Province.
Dozens of relatives of missing Iraqi soldiers have begun a sit-in in the main parliamentary chamber in Baghdad demanding information about their loved ones.
A wave of bombings has struck Baghdad and southern Iraq, killing at least 43 people amid heightened sectarian tensions.
The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for a series of car bombings in mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods of Baghdad that killed at least 27 people.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s political party says the Kurdish political leader will return to Iraq on July 19 after more than 18 months of medical treatment in Germany.
Reports from northern Iraq say the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized a mainly Turkoman city near Mosul -- despite claims by Iraq's government that it had "regained the initiative" against the Al-Qaeda splinter group.
Islamist militants have seized key buildings in Mosul, effectively taking control of one of Iraq's largest cities.
Sporadic clashes are reportedly continuing at a university campus in the Iraqi city of Ramadi stormed by Al-Qaeda-linked militants two days ago.
A suicide bombing at a Kurdish political party office has killed at least 18 people and injured some 55 in a town northeast of Baghdad.
A double car bombing targeting the Shabak ethnic minority in northern Iraq has killed at least four people and wounded more than 40 others.
Fierce fighting between Iraqi security forces and insurgents has taken place in the western province of Anbar.
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