The 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...

Kangana Ranaut who will be debuting at Cannes will be the first to walk the red carpet, on May 10.

In 2014, IS killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the community to abuse them as sex slaves.

While its excesses and propaganda won the ISIS thousands of recruits from across the world, it has also united the world’s powers.

But Recip Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's authoritarian-minded president, also used the strikes against ISIS as cover for a Machiavellian power-pl...

"Australia's contribution will continue to be coordinated with the government of Iraq and regional countries," Abbott said.

American fighter jets and drones successfully conducted airstrikes near Irbil and the Mosul Dam, targeting militants, the Pentagon said.

The US has said any evacuation mission on a mountain in northern Iraq besieged by Islamic State extremists is now "less likely".

Britain had earlier clearly ruled out the use of British military force but the government said it might send in troops in a humanitarian c...

The US has continued with its two-pronged mission in Iraq, hitting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant targets and providing humanitar...

US President Barack Obama has pledged support to the new leadership and urged him to form an all-inclusive cabinet.

US today said it stands ready to support a new and inclusive government in Baghdad, particularly in the fight against IS militants.

"We feel confident" that military efforts can prevent ISIS from slaughtering people on Mount Sinjar, where ISIS has been killing many peopl...

US President Barack Obama today said America would intervene everytime it could to prevent "massacre of innocent people".

The US President said that the US military operation in Iraq against the Islamic State terrorists is "limited in scope and duration".

The UN Security Council has condemned attacks on minorities by Islamist militants in Iraq as Ban Ki-moon called for international support.

A car bomb ripped through a crowded commercial district in a mainly Shiite town north of Baghdad, killing at least 32 people and wounding 4...