Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guards stand in a corridor in a prison run by the Syrian Democratic Forces and housing alleged ISIL members in Hasakah in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syrian government forces pictured last month near al-Aqtan prison in Raqqa, Syria, where numerous ISIL-linked detainees were held ...

The United States has announced the completion of the transfer of more than 5,700 suspected ISIL (ISIS) detainees from Syria to Iraq. “The 23-day transfer mission began on Jan 21 and resulted in US ...

Ex-prime minister Nouri al-Maliki is often seen as responsible for sectarian tensions and military mismanagement that made the "Islamic State" possible in Iraq. He's just been nominated as Iraq's next ...

Air strikes have targeted the headquarters of the Iran-aligned Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, ...

Iraqi forces supported by U.S. airstrikes advanced Sunday toward Fallujuah and pressed to re-take the key western city from the Islamic State, which has controlled it for nearly two years. An Iraqi ...

IRBIL, Iraq — Iraqi officials have begun the excavation of what is believed to be a mass grave left behind by the Islamic State extremist group during its rampage across the country a decade ago.

Iraqi forces are facing tough resistance on the outskirts of Fallujah, as they attempt to retake the key city held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS group), where ...

MUNICH, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Iraq is in talks with other countries including Arab and Muslim states to repatriate Islamic State prisoners, its foreign minister said, and the U.S. military said it had ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime to stage a comeback ...