A pilot of the Jordanian Air Force, which is contributing to the US-led coalition battling ISIS from above, has been captured after his jet was shot down while on a combat mission.
The government of Iran has been carrying out airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Iraq, illustrating that the group is such a threat rivals such as the United States and Iran both seek its demise.
The Iraqi government and the country's Kurds have reached an important agreement on oil revenues and plans to fight the Islamic State, boosting hopes that the group can eventually be defeated.
A new report reveals that a major factor in the collapse of the Iraqi Army in the wake of military advances by the Islamic State was the weakening of the army due to corruption that reached into its highest ranks.
The White House has announced plans to send more than 1,000 troops to Iraq supplement the roughly 1,400 already in the country to advise the Iraqi military in its battle against the Islamic State.
On Monday U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had a meeting with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, to evaluate Turkey's contribution to the coalition to fight the Islamic State.
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the current United Nations human rights chief who has taken office recently, gave his first speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. He called for international action to end the conflict in Syria and Iraq, The New York Times, reported.
The families of Iraqi soldiers who have been taken hostage by the terrorists of the Islamic State have stormed the Iraqi Parliament demanding news of their captive loved ones.
President Barack Obama has authorized surveillance flights over Syrian territory, the first step in the process of launching airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Syria.
A suicide bomber blew himself up inside the headquarters of Iraq's intelligence agency one day after a sectarian massacre has brought the possibility of establishing an inclusive Iraqi government into doubt.
A Shiite militia has massacred at least 50 Sunnis as they gathered to pray in a village mosque in the Iraqi province of Diyala.
Airstrikes by the United States on various targets and positions of the Islamic State have enabled Kurdish pesh merga and Iraqi Special Forces to retake control of the Mosul Dam, one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure in all of Iraq.
The Islamic State has continued its lightening expansion throughout Syria and Iraq, claiming new territory in Syria along the Turkish border, while the United Nations estimates that the Islamic State controls Iraqi territory where 40 percent of Iraq's wheat is grown.
The embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bid to retain power, despite the election of a replacement favorable to both Iraqi patrons Iran and the United States, seems to have come to an end.
The United States has announced plans to send another 130 military advisers to Iraq in an effort to bolster the force of 300 already in the country to help advise Iraqi forces on how best to deal with the expanding threat posed by the Islamic State.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
