BAGHDAD - Eight Iraqis were killed on Saturday, most of them security personnel, in a United States (US) air strike that apparently targeted them by mistake, a provincial official said. “Eight people — a senior intelligence official, five policemen and a woman — were killed by a US strike ...

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Defence Ministry has said a military helicopter has crashed during a training exercise, killing all seven crew members on board.The statement said the Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter crashed Sunday morning in the central Wasit province. The cause of the accident was not immediately ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iraq’s prime minister early on Thursday announced the start of an operation to retake the last Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) positions in the country’s western border regions.Haider al-Abadi said Iraqi forces have started an offensive to liberate the western border ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iraqi army and popular forces have discovered a number of US-made missiles from a military position of Daesh (ISIL) in the Southern part of Mosul, informed local sources disclosed after the first group of pro-government troops opened their way into Southern Mosul on ...

BAGHDAD- Iraq says it will be taking control of the borders of its northern Kurdistan region — which has voted controversially to break away from the country — in coordination with Iran and Turkey.The Iraqi Defense Ministry said on Friday that the implementation of the central government’s ...

In Iraq, government forces have retaken most of Tal Afar from Islamic State rebels.In a statement, Iraqi military said in Baghdad that fighting is on-going in al-'Ayadiya, a small area just outside the city. Iraqi forces are waiting to retake the city's surrounding areas to declare a complete ...

Iraqi forces say they are in the final stages in their operation to retake Mosul from ISIS.  "According to the Iraqi military, the fighting is still very intense," Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford, reporting from Erbil, said. The military said Iraqi anti-terror units are trying to take control of a ...

MOSUL: Iraqi forces launched a fresh push on the Islamic State group (Daesh)  in Mosul on Thursday, opening a northern front in their battle for the west side of the city, officers said.Forces from the army, the interior ministry and the police "began breaching the western side from the north," ...

Arbil (Iraq) (AFP) - The Islamic State group shot down an Iraqi helicopter operating over Mosul Thursday, as security forces announced they recaptured another neighbourhood in their nearly six-month-old offensive against the jihadist stronghold.The operation to retake west Mosul -- which the ...

ARBIL: (APP) Iraqi forces renewed their assault Monday against jihadists in Mosul's Old City, after days in which the battle was overshadowed by reports of heavy civilian casualties from air strikes. Iraqi forces began the massive operation to retake west Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) group ...