Iraq

The ISIS terrorist group is losing one of the last strongholds of its proclaimed “caliphate,” as coalition forces reach the final stages of pushing it out of the city of Raqqa in Syria. Raqqa was the group’s last major stronghold, following its recent loss of Mosul in Iraq. The terrorist group is now being pushed […]

Iraqi forces won a “swift and decisive victory against ISIS in Hawijah” on Thursday, Oct. 5, according to Coalition sources. “The battle was hard fought and operations to liberate the city took 14 days, with many sources reporting more than 1,000 terrorists surrendered,” reads a statement from the U.S. Central Command. During the Iraq war, […]

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is attempting to rally his followers through an undated audio recording released Thursday, Sept. 28, that urges them to keep fighting despite recent losses. “Beware of retreat, or the feeling of defeat, beware of negotiations or surrender. Do not lay down your arms,” Baghdadi said in the recording. “Oh Soldiers […]

The ISIS convoy that was making its way from Syria’s border with Lebanon to meet up with other ISIS terrorists near the border in Iraq has reached its destination, allowing ISIS to unite once divided forces. U.S.-led coalition forces had harried the convoy with constant aerial surveillance and air strikes and took out 40 vehicles […]

Coalition forces in Syria have killed two senior ISIS leaders as the terrorist group comes under increasing pressure from Iraqi and Syrian fighters. “The removal of these key ISIS leaders disrupts ISIS’s weapons engineering activities,” says a statement from U.S. Central Command. One of the men, Abu Anas al-Shami, was the ISIS weapons research leader who […]

Iraqi forces, with U.S. assistance, are currently fighting the ISIS terrorist group for control of Mosul. And in Syria, various forces, including Syrian government troops with the aid of Russia, are preparing to push ISIS out of Raqqa. When the smoke clears, ISIS will have likely lost its two main bases, and with them, the […]

U.S. and allied forces say that they could attack the Syrian city of Raqqa—the capital of the ISIS terrorist group’s self-proclaimed caliphate—within weeks, according to U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. Just weeks ago, Iraqi forces with the support of some 5,000 U.S. troops launched a major offensive against Mosul, which is considered to be […]

Iraqi troops have captured a cache of chemical weapons that formerly belonged to the ISIS terrorist group in Qayyarah, Iraq, just east of the terrorist organization’s stronghold in Mosul. Photographs taken in mid-October of the weapons along with chemical readings from the stockpile of weapons were provided to Epoch Times by Ed Alexander, chief intelligence […]

The minister for transport in Iraq made a controversial speech at the inauguration of a new airport in southern city of Dhi Qar, in which he stated that ancient Sumerians built the first airports 7,000 years ago and launched spaceships from there to explore other planets. He also claimed that all the world’s angels were […]

A PR firm in the United Kingdom was handed $500 million by the Pentagon to make fake terrorist videos to portray al-Qaeda in a negative light and to track sympathizers. The White House and Gen. David Petraeus signed off on the content produced by PR firm Bell Pottinger, according to a former employee, as reported […]

A radio station that broadcast ISIS propaganda in Iraq was bombed to silence by Iraqi forces, according to reports. The Al-Bayan station, which was one of the most significant propaganda broadcasting tools for the terrorist organization, went silent on Sunday after it was bombed by jets, a spokesperson told NBC News. “They used to broadcast […]

BAGHDAD—An unlikely array of forces is converging on the city of Mosul, lining up for a battle on the historic plains of northern Iraq that is likely to be decisive in the war against the Islamic State (ISIS). The tacit alliance—Iraqi troops alongside Shiite militiamen, Kurdish fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen and U.S special forces—underscores the […]

BAGHDAD—A triple suicide bombing against a security check point north of Baghdad on Saturday killed at least 11 members of the security forces, a police officer said. The spokesman for the Salahuddin province police force, Col. Mohammed al-Jabouri, said three militants rammed their explosives-laden vehicles early Saturday morning into the main check point near the […]

QARQASHAH, Iraq—In the buildup to a long-awaited offensive on the city of Mosul, Kurdish forces are seizing new territory in northern Iraq that they say will become part of their autonomous region. The moves are further straining relations between the Kurds and the Baghdad government and Shiite militias, all ostensibly allies in the fight against […]

AMIRIYAH AL-FALLUJAH, Iraq—As Iraqi political and military attention shifts north in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS), the military victories that have put Iraqi forces on Mosul’s doorstep have left behind shattered cities, towns and communities in Iraq’s Sunni heartland. Anbar has witnessed the most successful military phase of the ground fight against ISIS […]

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) officials manipulated intelligence to downplay the threat from ISIS, a U.S. House task force argues in a report released on Wednesday.

Donald Trump attacked President Obama and Hillary Clinton as the co-founders of the terrorist organization ISIS.

The U.N. refugee agency says it has received reports that the Islamic State group may have captured up to 3,000 Iraqis who were fleeing violence and that 12 of them may have been killed.

Now that Iraqi forces, with the support of the international coalition, are gearing up to recapture Mosul—ISIS’s last major stronghold in Iraq—the question that looms high is what will be the fate of the Iraqi Sunni community following ISIS’s inevitable defeat? I maintain that unless the political discussion begins now between the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government […]

It promises to be the biggest and perhaps last major battle against the Islamic State in Iraq.