(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) – Iraq ruled out any foreign ground intervention to help government forces retake territory lost to jihadists and urged Sunnis to give up such hopes, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al...
(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) - US-led airstrikes have killed "several hundred" jihadist fighters in and around Kobane, but the Islamic State might still capture the besieged Syrian town
(VOVworld) – France and Germany on Thursday pressed for urgent reforms to the European Union's visa-free Schengen travel zone to counter the increasing number of Europeans leaving their home...
(VOVworld) – Turkey's parliament gave the government the green light on Thursday to deploy Turkish armed forces against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria and Iraq
(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 69th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday delivered a message warning the world about Islamic jihadists’ ambitions to conquer the world
(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) – The US delivered a letter to the UN in which Washington said that the reason why the US and Arab allies had launched airstrikes against Islamic State...
(VOVworld) – US national security is facing unprecedented challenges—potential jihads—when American citizens who have fought alongside with extremist groups in Syria and Iraq have returned home
(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) – The European Commission said on Sunday that it had received no particular threat despite rumors that its headquarters in Brussels might be an attack target of jihadists from Syria
(VOVworld) – Foreign ministers from 30 countries attended an international conference on Iraq in Paris on Monday
(VOVworld) - The UN Security Council on Saturday strongly condemned the “heinous and cowardly” murder of American journalist Steven Sotloff by Islamists and declared that the Islamic State must be defeated
(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 Islamic State (IS) is an extremist group responsible for on-going violence across Iraq, and is expanding its activities neighboring Syria. In a report on Wednesday, the United Nations said...
(VOVworld) - The US has begun surveillance flights over Syria. The move could pave the way for air strikes against the self-declared Islamic State, whose fighters are spreading out in...
(VOVworld) – Seven western governments have joined the US to provide urgently needed arms and equipment to Kurdish forces in their fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq
(VOVworld) – Iraq has called for global support for its fight against jihadists after the Islamic State seized large areas of Iraq and neighboring Syria