Today, Iraqi Interior Minister Abdul Amir al-Shammari said that the ministry has deployed over 6,000 officers on the Iranian and Turkish borders of the country. "We have deployed more than 6,000 troops in Iraqi Kurdistan on the …
Several U.S. service members were injured during last week's Iranian missile attack on Al-Asad airbase in Iraq despite the Pentagon initially saying that no casualties had taken place. "While no U.S. service members were killed …
Four people were wounded yesterday in an attack on Balad air base in northern Iraq which houses U.S. personnel. The Iraqi military said in a statement that eight Katyusha rockets had been fired at the base, about 80 km north of …
Iraqi security forces have regained control of the area around the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after the compound was rocked by a second day of mass protests. Yesterday, security personnel fired tear gas and rubber bullets at hundreds of …
Iraqi F-16 fighter jets on Saturday launched eight airstrikes against sites and depots belonging to Daesh terrorist group in Rawa and al Qa’im towns in western Anbar, the Iraqi military's War Media Cell said in a statement, Egypt Today …
Iran deployed a dozen tanks supported by artillery at the border with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region on Monday, a Kurdish official said, “The tanks can be seen from the Kurdish side,” Reuters cited the official in …
Iranian and Iraqi central government forces are to hold joint military exercises near their borders as part of Tehran’s effort to support Baghdad after the Kurdish independence referendum, Reuters reported citing Iran’s state …
Iraqi government forces on Saturday recaptured a bridge across the Tigris River from Islamic State (IS) militants in the old city in the western side of Mosul, a security source said, Xinhua reports. "The federal police …
The Iraqi Air Force destroyed several explosives production facilities of ISIS to the west of Mosul, the military command of the country said. "The mine production facility has been destroyed, the explosives production …
ISIS blew up a historic mosque in Mosul that was the ideological heart of the terror group and the birthplace of its self-declared caliphate, the United States and Iraq said. ISIS, through its news agency, said US warplanes were …
Iraqi forces have stormed the Islamic State-held Old City of Mosul, in an assault they hope will be the last in the nine-month old campaign to seize the militants' stronghold, ABC Online reports. The historic district is the …
The Iraqi air force killed 100 Islamic State (ISIS, Daesh) militants in drone aerial bombardments in the west of Iraq, the Joint Operations Command (JOC) said on Tuesday (May 9), NRT reports. Warplanes launched 11 anti-ISIS …
Iraqi forces say they are pushing into the Old City of Mosul and closing in on a key mosque despite fierce resistance from ISIS militants. Federal police chief Lt-Gen Raed Jawdat said officers were besieging the area …
Iraqi government forces fighting to drive ISIS from western Mosul on Tuesday recaptured the main government building, the central bank branch and the museum where three years ago the militants had smashed statues and artifacts. An elite …
Iraqi Federal Police have captured the cousin of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the ISIS terrorist group, the Al Sumaria channel reported, citing its own sources. The ISIS leader's relative was captured after an …
Iraqi forces have regained control of the airport in Mosul, part of a months-long operation to push ISIS militants from the key city. The airport is now fully under Iraqi Federal Police control, the commander of the Rapid Response Unit …
Iraqi security forces closing in on the Isis-held western half of Mosul stormed the city's airport and a nearby military base early on Thursday, state television said. Counter-terrorism service (CTS) troops and elite interior …
Islamic State militants attacked an Iraqi army outpost and a police station near the city of Tikrit on Friday, killing at least four soldiers and wounding 12 others, military and police sources said. The militants used a car bomb and …
The forces from the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service stormed into al-Quds neighborhood in the eastern side of Mosul after fierce clashes with ISIS, Alsumaria News …
The Iraqi army has announced the liquidation of one of chieftains of the Daesh terrorist organization, Abu Anas Ash-Shishani, in the outskirts of Mosul, TASS reports citing Iraq's Akhbar website. According to the …
