(VOVWORLD) - Syrian troops and militia retook the desert town of Al-Qaryatain from the ISIS militant group on Saturday, ending a three-week fight-back by the militants
(VOVWORLD) -An Iraqi court on Thurday issued an arrest warrant for Kurdish Vice President Kosrat Rasul for referring to the Iraqi army and federal police as "occupation forces
(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi President Fuad Masum urged Kurdish leaders to sit down with Iraqi leaders to resolve the current crisis
(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi forces took full control of Kirkuk city on Monday, following a 4-hour clash with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters
(VOVWORLD) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has issued a decree forming the board of a National Electoral Commission (NEC), which will be in charge of supervising all national elections...
(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Mahjoub on Saturday called on Turkey and Iran to close border crossings with the Kurdish region in northern Iraq
(VOVWORLD) - ISIS’s last urban stronghold in Iraq has been recaptured, the Iraqi military has said
(VOVWORLD) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Monday called on the Iraqi government and Kurdish authorities to negotiate to resolve their disputes
(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi President Haider al-Abadi said Saturday that Iraq will protect the Kurds from any attack, amid rising tensions after their unilateral referendum on Kurdistan’s independence
(VOVWORLD) - The United States "does not recognise" Iraqi Kurds' "unilateral" referendum on independence and calls on all parties to reject the use of force and engage in dialogue
(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi troops liberated a region from Islamic State in southwest of Kirkuk on Friday, the first day of their second-phase operation against the IS
(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Wednesday demanded that the Kurdistan Regional Government cancel the result of the referendum on independence that was held on Monday
(VOVWORLD) - Iran on Tuesday voiced support for Iraq and Turkey in coping with the consequences of Kurdistan’s independence vote and said the vote might trigger political chaos in the...
(VOVWORLD) -Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Baghdad will not allow the creation of an “ethnic government”
(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi Kurds began casting their ballots in a controversial independence referendum on Monday as tensions between Iraq's largest ethnic minority and the Iraqi government in Baghdad intensified
(VOVWORLD) -Iraqi aircraft conducted dozens of airstrikes last week against more than IS militants in western Iraq, leaving many posts destroyed and killing more than 300 militants
(VOVWORLD) - Iraq’s armed forces have killed 80 Islamic State gunmen in an operation near Tal Afar, west of Mosul
(VOVWORLD) - The Iraqi army on Saturday began large-scale operations aimed at mopping up the remaining Islamic State’s presence in the east-central Diyala province
(VOVWORLD) - Suicide bombers killed seven and wounded another 12 when they attacked a power plant in Samarra, north of the capital Baghdad on Saturday
(VOVWORLD) - The Iraqi government announced on Thursday that its military, after 2 weeks of combat, reclaimed north Tal Afar and the rest of Nineveh province, one of ISIS’s last...