Syria war: IS ‘loses control along Turkey border’
Turkey says allied forces have driven so-called Islamic State (IS) from the last stretch of the border with Syria which the militants controlled. The loss to IS would cut off key supply lines to the...
View ArticleBritish troops condemned over Iraqi boy’s death in 2003
Four UK soldiers who “forced” an Iraqi boy into a canal and let him drown have been condemned by a judge investigating civilian deaths in the Iraq War. Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali, who was 15, died in...
View ArticleThe Iraqi housewife who ‘cooked the heads’ of ISIS fighters
“Shut up and stay still,” the woman in black fatigues and a black headscarf snapped over her shoulder at the armed men behind her as she sat down for an interview. Immediately they went quiet, each...
View ArticleEvildoers of Twitter Beware: You Can Now Be Served Lawsuits in a Tweet
A Kuwaiti religious leader who allegedly raised money for jihadist rebels in Syria appears poised to become the first person served a U.S. lawsuit via Twitter. Hajjaj bin Fahd al-Ajmi has been a hard...
View ArticleIraq violence: Dozens dead in Baghdad suicide attack on Shia
At least 35 people have died in a suicide attack targeting Shia in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, officials say. More than 60 were injured in the blast, carried out on a tent in a crowded market in a northern...
View ArticleMosul battle: Hundreds treated over toxic fumes in Iraq
Hundreds of people in Iraq are being treated for the effects of toxic gases after a sulphur plant was set alight in fighting with so-called Islamic State. The US military says IS fighters set the plant...
View ArticleIraq parliament in surprise vote to ban alcohol
Iraq’s parliament on Saturday voted to ban the sale, import and production of alcohol, in a surprise move likely to anger some minorities but also to please influential religious parties. Proponents of...
View ArticleIraq: ISIL suicide bombers kill dozens in two cities
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) fighters have claimed responsibility for several suicide bombings that have killed at least 21 people and wounded dozens in two cities in...
View ArticleWikiLeaks’ Assange to get legal grilling: Sweden
Julian Assange will be questioned in person next week over longstanding rape accusations, Sweden’s public prosecutor’s office announced Monday, saying an Ecuadorian prosecutor would visit the WikiLeaks...
View ArticleMosul battle: IS hangs bodies of 40 civilians from poles in Iraqi city, UN says
So-called Islamic State (IS) shot dead 40 civilians on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after accusing them of treason, the United Nations says. Their bodies were then hung from electricity...
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