(VOVworld) - Militants of the Islamic State in Iraq killed at least 36 more people in its execution campaign targeting a tribe that fought against it. The militants "executed 36 people, including four women and...
(VOVworld) - Israel announced the reopening of two border crossings with Gaza that it had closed over the weekend, an army spokeswoman said on Monday
(VOVworld) - Singapore will provide military support for the US-led coalition to fight the Islamic State (IS), but will not take part in combat operations
(VOVworld) - Foreign militants from more than 80 countries have flocked to fight in Iraq and Syria on an “unprecedented scale”, according to extracts of a UN report published by...
(VOVworld) – Iraqi Kurdish troops have traveled to south east Turkey to fight the Islamic State in Syria, according to Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency
(VOVworld) - Egypt began setting up a 500-meter wide buffer zone along about 10 kilometers of the border with Gaza Wednesday to prevent militant infiltration and arms smuggling
(VOVworld) – Iraqi officials have said that Islamic State militants used chlorine bombs during clashes with Shiite militiamen last month in the north of Baghdad
(VOVworld) - The Iraqi Kurdish parliament voted Wednesday to send Peshmerga forces to the Syrian town of Kobane to fight against Islamic State militants
(VOVworld) – Moscow would continue supporting Syria and Iraq in counter-terrorism, possibly providing them with weapons to fight Islamic State
(VOVworld) – The US military said on Sunday that it has airdropped weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to Kurdish forces defending the Syrian city of Kobane against Islamic State militants
(VOVworld)- Australia has reached a deal with Baghdad for the deployment of about 200 of its special forces to assist Iraqi troops in their fight against Islamic State (IS) militants
(VOVworld) - US war planes conducted 25 airstrikes in Syria and Iraq on Friday and Saturday, targeting Islamic State jihadists and oil infrastructure they control, said the American military
(VOVworld) – 15 members of the UN Security Council have denounced suicide bombings and violence conducted by the Islamic State militants in Baghdad and many localities in Iraq
(VOVworld) - Suspected Al-Qaeda militants have captured Udain town in southwest Yemen
(VOVworld) - Dozens of US military advisers arrived in Iraq Wednesday to train Iraqi security forces for their fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS). Iraqi officials said 100 US...
(VOVworld) – Islamic State militants reached Amriyat al-Fallujah, the last town under the control of the Iraqi government in western Anbar province, said the town sheriff Aref al-Janabi
(VOVworld) – US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel admitted on Saturday that the fight against IS militants will be difficult and prolonged
(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) - Syrian troops on Thursday thwarted an infiltration attempt by the al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front in the al-Qalamoun region north of the capital Damascus, killing 57 of...
(VOVworld) – At least 6 people died and 20 others were injured in Kurdish protests on Thursday against the Turkish government’s lack of military support for the defenders of the...