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Iran could be a ‘forever war’ if the Kurds join the fightA Kurdish ground insurgency against Iran could significantly change the course of the current conflict but may also risk creating a prolong...
Left-wing extremist Kurdish MP warns Sweden on compromise with Turkey regarding NATOFormer Peshmerga fighter Amineh Kakabaveh holds the decisive vote and says that the Scandinavian country will lose its dignity and values b...
A fragile partnership in Iraq tries to prevent IS revivalThe scene earlier this month in the small northern Iraqi farming village of Lheiban was a rare instance of coordination between the federal...
In a northern town brutalised by Islamic State, Iraq tests its powerThe hoisting of the national flag in Sinjar, home to Iraq's Yazidi religious minority, is the result of a deal months in the making for the...
IS extremists step up as Iraq, Syria, grapple with virusThe assaults are the latest in a resurgence of attacks by the Islamic State group in northern Iraq. The first was a brazen suicide mission ...
ISIS on the run, will soon be wiped out: Donald TrumpThe US President had yesterday spoken with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and congratulated him on "the liberation of Mosul" by Iraqi...
Allegations of abuse, mismanagement shadow gains against ISThe Trump administration's decision to provide Syria's Kurds with more advanced weapons has raised concerns among the various players in Sy...
US deploying elite force to boost fight against Islamic StateCarter said the new force will be larger than the one being sent into Syria, but did not specify how many troops it will include.
US military official: 'We were outraged' when Turkey began launching airstrikes right after anti-ISIS dealThe US is moving away from its $500 million Syrian train-and-equip program and embracing a partnership with YPG - Syrian Kurds who are clos...
Conflict between groups fighting the Islamic State terror group in IraqIt seems that Kurds, an ethnic group, have been seizing on the opportunity to take over territory that they expel ISIS from.
Iraq's divisions will delay counter-offensive on Islamic StateAmericans' training mission aims to prepare Iraqi troops for a spring offensive to retake territory, incl Mosul and Islamic State's powerba...
This British man has to pay for your promise: ISIS killer tells David CameronThe brutal murder comes just a day after the aid worker's family issued a public plea for his captors to contact them.
Cold War and Islamist spectres reawaken: 2014’s geopolitical outlook has turned decidedly stormyIf the events of 1991 and 2011 were seen to have definitively ended two major threats to world peace, the last couple of months have destro...
Barack Obama risks falling into a trap in SyriaTop American officials now acknowledge that the US must confront ISIS in both Iraq and Syria, but there is a lack of policy as to how that ...
Retaking Iraqi dam: US airstrikes have deadly effect on militants of the Islamic StateIt was not until President Barack Obama authorized airstrikes by the US military on August 7 that the Sunni fighters' advance was halted.
Air strikes aimed at stopping any advance of ISIL in IrbilIslamic State militants claimed that the US airstrikes were not hurting them at all and they were going to keep going.
- Oil wealth fans ethnic flames in Iraqi town
In a mirror image of Kirkuk, the Kurdish town of Khanaqin near the border with Iran that holds sizeable oil reserves is being exposed to et...