(VOVworld) - Two car bombs exploded in the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing at least 14 people and wounding at least 30. According to security and medical officials, one bomb exploded on a...
(VOVworld) - Iraqi forces on Saturday broke a months-long siege by jihadist fighters of the country's largest oil refinery
(VOVworld) – Iran is ready to help Iraq fight Islamic State militants, pledged Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri on Monday during talks in Tehran with Iraqi Vice President and former premier...
(VOVworld) – US President Barack Obama has said the deployment of 1,500 more US troops to Iraq marks a “new phase” against Islamic State militants
(VOVworld)-President Obama has approved sending up to 1,500 additional US troops to Iraq, doubling the number being deployed to help Iraqi forces fight the Islamic State. The president also...
(VOVworld) – Iraqi President Fouad Masoum on Thursday called on factions to reconcile to reestablish social order and prepare for the fight against the Islamic State
(VOVworld) – The UK will help Iraq liberate areas occupied by the Islamic State
(VOVworld) – Iraqi Kurdish troops have traveled to south east Turkey to fight the Islamic State in Syria, according to Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency
(VOVworld) – Iraqi officials have said that Islamic State militants used chlorine bombs during clashes with Shiite militiamen last month in the north of Baghdad
(VOVworld) - The Iraqi Kurdish parliament voted Wednesday to send Peshmerga forces to the Syrian town of Kobane to fight against Islamic State militants
(VOVworld) – At least 17 people were killed and 26 injured in a suicide bombing in Baghdad on Monday
(VOVworld) – Iraq ruled out any foreign ground intervention to help government forces retake territory lost to jihadists and urged Sunnis to give up such hopes, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al...
(VOVworld)- Australia has reached a deal with Baghdad for the deployment of about 200 of its special forces to assist Iraqi troops in their fight against Islamic State (IS) militants
(VOVworld) - US war planes conducted 25 airstrikes in Syria and Iraq on Friday and Saturday, targeting Islamic State jihadists and oil infrastructure they control, said the American military
(VOVworld) – 15 members of the UN Security Council have denounced suicide bombings and violence conducted by the Islamic State militants in Baghdad and many localities in Iraq
(VOVworld) - Dozens of US military advisers arrived in Iraq Wednesday to train Iraqi security forces for their fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS). Iraqi officials said 100 US...
(VOVworld) – Islamic State militants reached Amriyat al-Fallujah, the last town under the control of the Iraqi government in western Anbar province, said the town sheriff Aref al-Janabi
(VOVworld) – Iraqi police and medical officers said at least 18 were killed, including 5 police officers, and 51 injured in a Tuesday suicide car bombing at a check-point in Kadhimiya...
(VOVworld) – The self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) admitted having conducted a triple suicide bombing on Sunday targeting a compound housing Kurdish security and intelligence forces in the northeast Iraq province...
(VOVworld) – US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel admitted on Saturday that the fight against IS militants will be difficult and prolonged