The Iraqi army said on Sunday two drones were destroyed above a base housing US troops, one month after the same base was targeted by an armed drone. The US military's C-RAM defence system was activated to shoot down the drones above the Ain al-Assad base, located in Iraq's western desert, ...

BAGHDAD - Reports on a trove of leaked Iranian intelligence documents drove home the depth of its influence in Iraq on Monday, where anti-government protesters have accused Tehran of meddling and overreach. The New York Times and online publication The Intercept reported that the hundreds of ...

BAGHDAD: Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who purportedly appeared for the first time in five years in an IS propaganda video released on Monday, is the world’s most wanted man who has so far eluded capture. After declaring himself caliph in 2014, Baghdadi held sway over seven ...

In Iraq, two soldiers were killed and five other injured in a clashes between the Iraqi army and Kurdish PKK militants.   The Iraqi military said in a statement, the clashes took place in Sinjar in northwestern Iraq when militants drove a vehicle into one soldier and attacked the ...

BAGHDAD: In an air strike conducted by Iraqi war planes, 44 Daesh (ISIS) miltants were killed in Syria, IRNA reported on Wednesday. Iraqi army media center announced that, the F-16 jetfighters taking advantage of exact information about terrorist positions, bombarded two Daesh bases in Suseh ...

NINEVEH: At least 14 members of the Daesh terrorist group were arrested in a security sweep carried out across Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, according to a statement released by the Iraqi army. The arrests, the army said, were based on intelligence reports indicating that Daesh terrorists ...

BAGHDAD: At least nine people were killed in a terrorist attack in western Iraq, Commander of military forces in Al-Garma Ahmad Mokhlaf said. The Comander told Iraqi media Alsumaria that the terrorists were wearing military uniform, IRNA reported. Probe was ordered into the incident. Despite the ...

BEIJING - China is unleashing stealth drones and pilot-less aircraft fitted with AK-47 rifles onto world markets, racing to catch up to American technology and adding to a fleet that has already seen combat action in the Middle East. Combat drones were among the jet fighters, missiles and other ...

MOSCOW - Russia said on Tuesday that the Taliban had accepted an invitation for talks next month, in what promises to be one of the insurgent group’s biggest diplomatic forays since the 2001 US-led invasion. The announcement of the planned talks comes as the Taliban have expanded their ...

The U.S.-led international coalition has announced that U.S. forces will stay in Iraq to help stabilize the region previously controlled by Islamic State terrorist group. A spokesman for the U.S.-led international coalition Colonel Sean Ryan told a news conference in Abu Dhabi today that the main ...