Iraqis protest over killing of YouTube star by her father

Iraqis are protesting to demand a law against domestic violence, days after a YouTuber was strangled by her father in a killing that sparked outrage.

Report says nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed over the past 20 years

Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published by Reporters Without Borders.

Airstrike kills 10 at Iraq-Syria border

At least 10 people have been killed as an airstrike hit a convoy carrying fuel across the Iraqi border on Tuesday evening, according to The Times of Israel.

Islamic State militants kill ten Iraqis in ‘fierce clashes’

At least ten members of an Iraqi militia group have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants.

A statement released by the Shia-dominated Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) said the deaths came during “fierce clashes” with IS.

Breaking!!! Iran 'revenge' missile attacks on base housing US troops were 'just the first step'

Iran's ballistic missile attacks on US targets in Iraq was the "first step" and Tehran will not spare American troops, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander has warned.

How President Trump threatened Iran with attacks on 52 sites

In a series of tweets Saturday, US President Donald Trump responded to Iranian threats of avenging Major General Qassem Soleimani’s assassination in a US airstrike, by warning that the US will hit 52 Iranian sites, dear to Iran.

US national team cancel winter training camp in Qatar after killing of Commander of Iran's Quds Force by US government

The men's US national team has called off plans to go to Qatar for a winter training camp due to the tension in the Middle East after the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Unit, Qasem Soleimani, was killed in a United States airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump. 

Leave Iraq immediately - US government tells its citizens after its airstrike killed a top Iranian General, Qasem Soleimani

The United States government has told its citizens to leave Iraq immediately, hours after their airstrike killed a top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani (leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq.

More tragedy as armed men storm TV station after 80 die in Iraq protests

Armed men dressed in black have stormed the offices of a news broadcaster in Iraq, the station has said.

The Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel says some of its staff have been injured and equipment has been destroyed in the raid which came after days of threats to the broadcaster.

KABOOM! 'Islamic State-infested' island wiped out by 40 tonnes of explosives

US warplanes have dropped 40 tonnes of explosives on an island in northern Iraq to annihilate an Islamic State hideout.

F-15 and F-35 fighter jets were used in the joint operation between US-led coalition forces and the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service, which targeted Qanus Island in the Tigris River.

Iraq condemns German woman to death for belonging to IS

An Iraqi court said Sunday it had condemned to death by hanging a German woman of Moroccan origin after finding her guilty of belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group.

She is one of hundreds of foreign jihadists held by Iraqi authorities, who in December announced the defeat of IS after a gruelling three-year battle.

Disaster as over 130 killed in Iraq, Iran strong earthquake

More than 120 people were killed in Iran and at least several others in Iraq when a powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the region, state media said, as rescuers stepped up efforts overnight to find dozens trapped under rubbles.

At least 129 people were killed in Iran’s Kermanshah province on the Iraqi border, the provincial deputy governor told state television.

Several killed in twin suicide bomb attacks in Iraqi city Kirkuk

Two suicide bombers struck in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding more than 20 others, police and medical sources said.

The interior ministry said the attacks targeted a Shi'ite Muslim mosque on Atlas Street in central Kirkuk and gave an initial casualty toll of one killed and 16 wounded.

Former Iraqi president and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani has died at 83

Ex-Iraqi president and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani died on Tuesday in Germany, officials in his party told AFP.

Talabani, 83, was Iraq's president from 2005 to 2014 and a key figure in Iraqi Kurdistan, where voters last week overwhelmingly backed independence in a disputed referendum.

Iraq forces defeat IS group incursion near Ramadi

Islamic State group fighters seized areas around Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on Wednesday in an apparent attempt at a diversion from offensives on its last Iraqi footholds but were swiftly defeated, security sources said.

The jihadist infiltrators briefly occupied three areas near the city, which is the capital of mainly Sunni Arab Anbar province, long a bastion of insurgency, the sources said.

French soldier killed in Iraq-Syria military zone, Élysée Palace says

A French soldier from the 13th regiment of paratroopers was killed saturday morning while fighting in the Iraq-Syria region, the French presidency announced on Saturday.

The Élysée Palace said in a statement that President Emmanuel Macron had "learned with great sadness" of the death of a soldier who was killed in combat in the Levant this morning (saturday).

Scores killed in twin southern Iraq attacks claimed by IS group

Gunmen and suicide car bombers killed at least 74 people Thursday near the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, in the deadliest attack claimed by the Islamic State group since it lost second city Mosul.

The assailants struck at midday, opening fire on a restaurant before getting into a car and blowing themselves up at a nearby security checkpoint, officials said.

Iraq declares victory over IS group in 'liberated' Tal Afar

Iraqi Prime Minister Hayder al-Abadi declared victory over Islamic State militants in Tal Afar and the entire province of Nineveh on Thursday, despite continued fighting in the small town of al-‘Ayadiya.

Tal Afar had become the next target of the US-backed war on the jihadist group following the capture of Mosul, where it had declared its “caliphate” over parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.

Tal Afar’s historic city centre recaptured from IS group, say Iraqi forces

Iraqi forces announced Saturday the ouster of Islamic State (IS) group fighters from central Tal Afar and its historic citadel, leaving them poised to fully recapture one of the jihadist group’s last urban strongholds in the country.

The advance, less than a week into an assault on the strategic city, came after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory in Mosul, where the IS group declared its "caliphate" in 2014.

Tragedy as two US soldiers killed in Iraq, five injured

Two US soldiers were killed and five wounded in northern Iraq on Sunday during “combat operations”, a statement from the American military said.

“Initial reports indicate the incident was not due to enemy contact,” said the statement from Centcom, the US military command in the Middle East.