Government forces are continuing an offensive to retake Iraq’s northern city of Tikrit from Sunni rebels. Aircraft have struck at…
Iraq’s PM Nouri al-Maliki has confirmed that Syria carried out air strikes on ISIS militants inside Iraqi territory this week.…
US troops have been deployed to Iraq to assist the Iraqi army in combating a growing Sunni militant insurgency, the…
US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil to hold talks with Kurdish…
Iraq’s government has lost control of its western borders after Sunni militants reportedly captured crossings to Syria and Jordan. Officials…
Iraq forces are battling Sunni militants for control of the country's biggest oil refinery. A military spokesman said troops had…
Iraqi Islamist militants have invaded the country's biggest oil refinery, after pounding it with mortars and machine guns from two…
Heavy clashes took place between Iraqi government forces and Sunni Islamist militants who have made major advances in the past…
The northern Iraqi buffer city of Tal Afar has been seized by Sunni militants, officials and residents say. Sunni militants…
The US is sending a major warship into the Gulf to provide it with military options should the situation in…