Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abad was defiant. Addressing the Iraqi people in a nationally televised statement, Abadi declared that the military operation to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State ...

WASHINGTON — Iraqi security forces routed Islamic State fighters at a key hamlet in the first major fighting since pushing them from the strategic city of Ramadi, a senior Defense official said ...

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) recently declared Mehmet Görmez, the head of Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs – the “Diyanet” as it is often referred to – an apostate. The ...

Being the world's top superpower is not all it is cracked up to be. The American brand is still a strong one worldwide but the United States is increasingly viewed as a nation with its own self ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iraqi troops are continuing to battle ISIL militants in pockets of the city of Fallujah, days after the government declared the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kurdish Peshmerga Forces have described how they face attacks from chemical weapons as they seek to push back ISIL forces on the ...

There are conflicting reports that militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have overrun the strategic city of Tal Afar in Nineveh province. Some reports on the situation in Tal ...

WASHINGTON — Last week was a good week for the U.S. coalition fighting militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS), as they took back three key locations across Iraq and Syria ...

Syrian army units are said to have inflicted heavy losses upon ISIL fighters in the hills surrounding the archaeological city of Palmyra. However it is not clear if an apparent retreat of the ...

Editor’s note: The authors are both former Marine Corps officers whose combined service includes experience in wars ranging from Vietnam to Afghanistan. In March 2016, the authors visited the front ...

Iraqi soldiers from the elite counter-terrorism service check buildings in industrial area on the outskirts of Ramadi as they search for suspected Islamic State (IS) group collaborators on January 13, ...