(VOVworld) – Iraqi officials said Kurdish forces, backed by US fighter aircraft, have taken back Mosul Dam, the country's largest, from Islamic militants
(VOVworld) – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced his resignation Thursday and expressed his support for his successor Haidar al-Abadi
(VOVworld) – The US government has no intention to expand air strike operations in Iraq more than self-defense actions, said Lieutenant-General William Mayville, a Pentagon offical on Monday
(VOVworld) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed talks in Cairo on Monday to seek a long-term ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The Egypt-brokered indirect negotiation came a day after...
(VOVworld) – France is weighing supplying arms to the Kurds in northern Iraq to fight against Islamic State jihadists but France's military will not intervene in Iraq as the US...
(VOVworld) – Israel began an “unlimited ceasefire” in Gaza on Monday after 21 days of fierce clashes and mounting world pressure to halt hostile acts between Israel and Hamas there
(VOVworld)- Nigerian Boko Haram militants kidnapped the wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister Ahmdou Ali in an attack targeting his house near Far North, bordering Nigeria on Sunday...
(VOVworld) – The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has claimed responsibility for 4 bomb attacks, which killed 20 people last Saturday in Baghdad
(VOVworld) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday ordered the country’s military to begin a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip
(VOVworld) – The German Federal Foreign Office said that Germany, France, Ukraine, and Russia would hold a new round of negotiations for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, after separate talks between...
(VOVworld) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip during a military campaign that has killed 43 Palestinians so far
(VOVworld) – Russia on Tuesday appealed for an emergency meeting of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)’s Standing Committee to present a draft resolution on settling conflicts,...
(VOVworld) – Mikhail Koval, Deputy Secretary of the Ukraine National Security and Defense Council, on Monday said that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had approved a special military campaign in the eastern...
(VOVworld) – Demonstrations took place across Egypt on Thursday to mark one year since President Mohammed Morsi was toppled
(VOVworld) - Iran has not sent military forces to Iraq, said Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham, denying the presence of any Iranian military officials in the crisis-torn country
(VOVworld) - US President Barack Obama warned Sunday that extremist militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant could destabilize other countries in the region
(VOVworld) – Fierce clashes occurred Saturday in the Iraqi border areas with Syria between the government forces and Sunni fighters led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The militants, led by the...
(VOVworld) - The Pentagon said Friday that Iran has sent "small numbers" of operatives into Iraq to help Bagdad fend off the onslaught by Sunni militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and...
(VOVworld) - At least six Palestinians, including women and children, have been injured in a series of Israeli air strikes targeting different parts of the Gaza Strip early on Friday morning. According to...
(VOVworld)- Iraqi military forces killed some 300 Takfiri militants in a series of attacks across the country targeting Islamic insurgent fighters