The Iraqi government has executed 36 people by hanging for their roles in the massacre of around 1,700 men in ISIS-held areas...
President Barack Obama will address the nation on the threat posed by Sunni extremist group ISIS on Wednesday, a day before the...
The United States launched new airstrikes against Islamic State militants in western Iraq to keep a vital dam under the control of the...
A Syrian government airstrike targeting an Islamic State stronghold on Saturday killed at least 25 people, 16 of them civilians, most of...
U.S. airstrikes and Iraqi forces reached the Shi’ite town of Amerli in northern Iraq, which has been under siege by the Islamic State forces for...
At least 40 people were killed in the latest string of bombings in mostly Shiite populations in Baghdad and other parts of...
Shi’ite militiamen open fired on a mosque in a Sunni village in Bani Weis, Diyala province in eastern Iraq during prayers on Friday, killing at...
GlobalPost, the Boston-based news organization James Foley worked for, released Islamic State’s (Isis) last email to the Foley family, a week before the...
Even after Sunni Muslim extremists–through the video showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley–demanded the U.S. to stop attacking their territories,...
They tried, but did not succeed. The United States tried to rescue James Foley and other U.S. citizens held captive by Islamic...
The Islamic State, formally known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), beheaded an American journalist to compel the United States...
Pope Francis on Tuesday endorsed the use of force to stop the persecution of religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq following the...
The United States has sent more security advisers to Iraq to rescue thousands of Yazidis trapped in the mountains by extremists who threatened...