ISLAMABAD- Baghdad, French Defence Minister Florence Parly held talks in Baghdad on Thursday, pledging continued support for Iraq's fight against remnants of the Islamic State group. Parly is the second French minister to visit the Iraqi capital this summer after Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian ...

BAGHDAD - In Iraq, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces have rejected a warning from the country's paramilitary force to withdraw from a strategic junction in south of Kirkuk.Ex-Governor of Kirkuk Najmiddin Karim told reporters today after visiting Kurdish protestors on the streets of Kirkuk that people ...

ARBIL, Iraq, Jan 8 (APP/AFP): Elite Iraqi forces battling the Islamic State group in eastern Mosul on Sunday reached the Tigris River that splits the city in two for the first time, a spokesman said.Counter-Terrorism Service forces "reached the Tigris River from the eastern (side) of the fourth ...

TEHRAN: (APP) Iran showed off missiles, warplanes, tanks and marching troops on Wednesday in a display of military strength in the face of growing regional tensions.READ MORE:   Iran holds mighty Military Day Parade in TehranThe Islamic republic used the 36th anniversary of the start of the ...

PARIS (APP) - America's response to the 9/11 attacks augmented rather than defeated the militant threat, with the consequences of the Iraq war now being felt in terror-scarred France, President Francois Hollande said Sunday.In a Facebook post commemorating the victims of the attacks Hollande echoed ...

LONDON, July 6, (APP/AFP) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair took his country into a badly planned, woefully executed and legally questionable war in Iraq in 2003, according to the findings of a long-delayed inquiry into Britain's role in the conflict. The Chilcot report found the decision ...

KIRKUK, Iraq, April 24, (APP): Iraq War worst clashes between Iraqi Kurds and Turkmen Shiites. Kurdish peshmerga forces and Turkmen Shiite paramilitaries were Sunday engaged in clashes that have killed nine people in a flashpoint town and closed the highway to Baghdad, officials said. Tuz ...