President Barack Obama has authorized targeted air strikes against Islamic militants in northern Iraq but will not send US troops…
More than 25% of Iraq's Christians are reported to be fleeing after Islamic militants seized Qaraqosh, the minority's biggest town…
An air strike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has killed at least 30 people, reports say. Some of…
Emirates has decided to suspend flights over Iraq to protect against the threat of Islamic militants on the ground. The…
At least 29 people have been killed after gunmen have stormed two buildings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, officials say.…
A caliphate is an Islamic state ruled by a single political and religious leader, or Caliph. Caliphs are regarded by…
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has called on Muslims to obey him, in his first video sermon. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi…
Forty six Indian nurses, who were trapped in fighting engulfing parts of Iraq, have been freed, Indian authorities say. The…
ISIS militants have announced they are establishing a caliphate, or Islamic state, on the territories the Islamist group controls in…
Iraq's PM Nouri al-Maliki has rejected calls for a national salvation government to help counter the offensive by jihadist-led Sunni…
The US will send 300 military advisers to Iraq to help fight Islamist-led insurgents, President Barack Obama has announced. Barack…
Iraq's most senior Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has issued a call to arms while Sunni-led insurgents seize more…
ISIS insurgents in Iraq have seized the city of Tikrit, their second major gain after capturing Mosul on Tuesday, security…
Iraq's PM Nouri Maliki has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency, after Islamist militants effectively took control of…
A series of bomb attacks killed at least 26 people in central Iraq, police and medical officials say. Fifteen died…
Secretary of State John Kerry has said the US will help Iraq fight al-Qaeda-linked militants, but that it is not…
Iraqi army has lost control of the strategic city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, eyewitnesses say. Al-Qaeda-linked militants now control…
Iraqi troops arrested MP Ahmed al-Alwani and killed his brother and at least three of his guards during a raid…
Al-Qaeda has claimed two mass jailbreaks in Iraq, which freed hundreds of prisoners including senior leaders of the Islamist militant…
At least 19 people have been killed in two car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say. The…
Waves of bomb attacks and shootings in north of Baghdad have killed at least 82 people, say security and medical…
Two car bomb and suicide attacks killed at least 10 people and wounded another 15 in the northern Iraqi town…
At least 27 police officers have been killed in the western Iraqi city of Haditha after dozens of gunmen launched…
At least 48 people died and dozens have been injured in a wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq, police…
At least 63 people have been killed and around 185 injured in a wave of apparently co-ordinated bomb attacks in…