Iraqi officials say at least 47 people were killed and dozens more injured by a suicide car-bomb attack near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on March 6.
Syrian rebel fighters seized control of a crossing on the Iraqi border, activists said, after air strikes from the U.S.-coalition battered Islamic State fighters, pushing them back from the Syrian side of the border.
The New York Times reports that U.S. special operations forces have captured a “significant” Islamic State (IS) operative in Iraq.
Iraq has signed a deal with a European company to repair and maintain the Mosul Dam in the north of the country.
Iraqi government troops, backed by Shi’ite paramilitary militia forces and U.S. air support, launched an offensive on March 1 aimed at recapturing key areas north of Baghdad from the militants group that calls itself Islamic State (IS).
Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov said in an interview with a German newspaper that he may shut down the so-called Balkan route for migrants altogether later this year.
The United States will provide more support for Iraqi forces to retake Mosul from Islamic State (IS) militants than it did in the recapture of Ramadi, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on February 29.
A suicide bomber has detonated his explosive vest at a Shi'ite Muslim funeral in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, killing at least 30 people and wounding at least 58 others.
The U.S. Embassy in Iraq has issued evacuation recommendations it says could help save up to 1.5 million lives at risk from the possible collapse of the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq.
Authorities in Iraq say the death toll from a double bombing at a market in Baghdad’s Shi’ite neighborhood of Sadr City rose to 73 on February 29 after several critically wounded victims died overnight.
A twin suicide bombing has killed at least 59 people and wounded nearly 100 in a crowded outdoor market in Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.
Iraqi security forces were battling on February 28 against Islamic State militants in Baghdad's western suburb of Abu Ghraib in what officials described as the largest attack near the Iraqi capital in months.
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