(VOVworld) - Top officials from 21 countries held talks in London on Thursday on pushing back Islamic Statemilitants (IS) in Iraq and Syria and tackling the growing threat of Islamic jihadists...
(VOVworld) – German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen began a visit to Iraq on Sunday to discuss with Iraqi President Fouad Massoum about Germany’s supplies and training for Kurdish...
(VOVworld) - Militants from the Islamic State group attacked on Kurdish forces in the Gwer area of northern Iraq, killing 26, security officials said Saturday. 45 gunmen of IS were killed in the clashes...
(VOVworld) - Iran has defined a 40-km red zone inside the Iraqi border to prevent any infiltration attempt into its territory by the Islamic State (IS), an Iranian army commander said Tuesday...
(VOVworld) - Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said Tuesday that the Iraqi military has started rebuilding after its near total collapse last summer
(VOVworld) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called for a "tribal revolution" against foreign enemies and emphasized the importance of the tribes and the sons of Anbar province taking part in...
(VOVworld) - A series of photos posted online on Monday showed that Islamic State jihadists have executed 8 people, 4 of them policemen, in Iraq's Salaheddin province
(VOVworld) – Australia will strengthen cooperation with Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State (IS), said Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott during talks with his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi...
(VOVworld) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Sunday called for cooperation among nations of the region to defeat terrorism
(VOVworld) - Iraq and Turkey have pledged to join forces to fight Islamic State (IS) militants who are seizing large areas of Iraq and Syria
(VOVworld) – Iraq’s Army on Sunday retook control of a military airbase outside the town of Tal Afar in the northern province of Nineveh, after conducting several air strikes on...
(VOVworld) - US President Barack Obama issued a tough warning to the IS militants, saying a US-led coalition will permit no safe haven to the group and will destroy it...
(VOVworld) – US Secretary of State John Kerry urged the US Congress to authorise the White House to fight the Islamic State and not rule out using ground troops
(VOVworld) - The foreign ministers of Iran, Syria and Iraq met in Tehran on Tuesday and pledged to work together to battle radical Sunni militants, Syrian and Iranian state media reported
(VOVworld) - Iraqi health officials and police reported 37 deaths and 92 injuries in bombings on Thursday alone
(VOVworld) – The US-led coalition against the Islamic State announced that they have blocked the IS’s moves in Iraq and Syria
(VOVworld) - US Secretary of State John Kerry hosted the first high-level meeting of the 60-member coalition trying to crush the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria at...
(VOVworld) - Iraqi security forces broke the Islamic State (IS) militant group's months-long siege of a town in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala
(VOVworld) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi has ordered more aerial support and weapons for soldiers and Sunni militiamen battling the Islamic State in Anbar province
(VOVworld) - The United States plans to buy arms for Sunni tribesmen in Anbar province, Iraq, including AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades and mortar rounds to help bolster the battle against the...