Far from appearing out of nowhere, the radical Islamic State group is the result of a transformation rooted in the Sunni insurgency that followed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, argues Joby Warrick
Iraqi forces have recaptured a key air base from the Islamic State militant group, a victory hailed by the government as a major step ahead of the long-awaited operation to retake the northern city of Mosul.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi fired the three top security officials in Baghdad on July 8 following a series of deadly attacks.
Islamic State militants have fired mortars on a crowded Shi'ite shrine north of Baghdad, creating a state of confusion that enabled three suicide bombers in military uniforms to infiltrate the compound and blow themselves up, Iraqi authorities say.
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board has approved a $5.34 billion program for Iraq to help strengthen the country's finances.
The death toll from the massive July 3 bombing in Baghdad is still rising as more human remains are recovered from the blast site.
A seven-year public inquiry ordered by the British government into the circumstances and "lessons" of the 2003 invasion of Iraq has concluded that the country's leadership went to war "before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted."
The United Nations says a Shi’ite militia that fought alongside the Iraqi military in Fallujah may have seized some 900 civilian men and boys and killed nearly 50.
Iraq’s interior minister says he has submitted his resignation to the prime minister following one of the worst bombings in Baghdad since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Iranian state television aired a documentary claiming that militants detained last month and linked with Islamic State had been paid to carry out assaults in Tehran like the ones in Brussels and Paris.
Iraq observed the first of three days of mourning for at least 213 people killed in a massive Baghdad truck bombing claimed by the Islamic State group.
A camp for Iranian dissidents near Baghdad's international airport was shelled, injuring several people, Iraqi officials and camp residents said on July 4.
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