(VOVworld)-Islamic State (IS) militants executed an Iraqi news cameraman and 12 other people on Friday. The militants shot dead Raad al-Azzawi, a 37-year-old cameraman for local news channel Sama Salaheddin, his...
(VOVworld) – The US Army has deployed its helicopters in the counter-Islamic State campaign in Iraq for the first time
(VOvworld) – Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said that international assistance in the fight against the Islamic State jihadist group should respect the country's sovereignty
(VOVworld) – The US has underestimated the possibility that the Syrian civil war gives jihadists a space to thrive and grow rapidly, US President Barack Obama said Sunday in an interview...
(VOVworld)-Russia once again strongly condemned the US launching of air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria, saying at all counter-terrorism actions needed to comply with international law
(VOVworld) – 2 weeks after its establishment, the international alliance against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East has taken its first steps to eliminate this group. 54 countries have...
(VOVworld) – The Jund al-Khilafah, an Algerian group, has kidnapped and threatened to kill a Frenchman unless Paris halts air attacks in Iraq against its ally, the Islamic State (IS)
(VOVworld) - American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission, US President Barack Obama said during a speech at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida...
(VOVworld) – Almost half of Iraq's army is incapable of working against Islamic State (IS) militants. General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Wednesday...
(VOVworld) - America's top military officer raised the possibility Tuesday that US troops could become involved in ground attacks against the Islamic State, despite repeated pledges to contrary from President...
(VOVOworld) – The world's top diplomats have pledged to support Iraq in its fight against Islamic State militants by "any means necessary", including "appropriate military assistance
(VOVworld) – US President Barack Obama announced Wednesday a comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy which expands air strikes against the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria
(VOVworld) - US President Barack Obama Monday pledged continued close cooperation with Iraq on combating the self-declared Islamic State (IS) militant group
(VOVworld) - Iraq's parliament approved a new government headed by Prime Minister Haider Abadi on Monday. The defense and interior ministers are still unnamed due to political differences
(VOVworld) - Iraq's Parliament convened on Monday to vote on a new cabinet amid the country's military battle against the self-declared Islamic State in northern Iraq
(VOVworld) - The US military forces used fighter and remotely piloted aircraft to conduct two airstrikes on terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Friday and Saturday
(VOVworld) - Iraqi Kurdish forces and Shiite militants on Friday discovered mass graves containing 35 bodies after retaking the town of Sulaiman Bek from jihadists
(VOVworld) – The top aid of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a strike in the ISIS-held city of Mosul, in...
(VOVworld) - Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi said Monday that the establishment of a unified government might be finalized within the next one or two days because talks concerning...
(VOVworld) – Iraq has called for global support for its fight against jihadists after the Islamic State seized large areas of Iraq and neighboring Syria