The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...

The Iraqi government is looking to gain control of Iranian-aligned armed groups that operate inside of Iraq but outside state ...

With the end of the final US-led coalition force in Iraq, the Iranians may feel they have a golden opportunity. But ...

The organisation owes its origin to the ill-advised and ill-conceived invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Baghdad plans to repatriate all Iraqi nationals currently being held in camps for people with links ...

Iraq’s National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday after talks in Baghdad that a joint battle using "all our resources" must be carried out to eliminate both Islamic State and Kurdish militants in ...

The threat posed by the Islamic State has once again hit the headlines following the New Year's Day attack on a crowded street in New Orleans on Wednesday by a man who may have ties to the ...

an acronym for 'Islamic State of Iraq and Syria'. Under the leadership of Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS took advantage of the raging civil war in Syria which was an offshoot of the Arab Spring of 2011 ...

Swedish prosecutors have requested the detention of a Swedish man on suspicion of war and terrorism crimes over the killing ...

The Iraqi parliament has passed an amnesty law that could lead to the release of thousands of prisoners, including Iraqis ...

Family matters - including marriage, divorce and inheritance - will now be under the control of Islamic courts, which some ...