Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says Iraq will be using “within few days” jet fighter acquired from Russia to pound positions of ISIL terrorists across the country, blaming US failure to deliver F-16 warplanes already purchased by Baghdad for his country’s lack of air power to avert recent advances by the Takfiri terrorists.
Iraqi armed forces spokesman has described the areas around the country’s major oil refinery facility of Baiji in Salahuddin Province as the “graveyard of ISIL elements.”
Iraqi armed forces have pushed out armed ISIL terrorists from the al-Mansuriya region of embattled Diyala Province and retaken control over the area, al-Alam’s correspondent reports.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has hosted 'emergency talks' with Washington’s Persian Gulf allies to address the spreading crisis in Iraq, where foreign-sponsored ISIL terrorists have captured a swathe of territory.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague has made a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to urge authorities of the embattled country to unite in the face of a “mortal threat” from the foreign-sponsored ISIL terrorists.
President Obama has announced that 300 American “advisors” would be deployed to Iraq to answer the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group, the American trained and supplied Al Qaeda/Takfiri militant group unleashed on the people of Syria some years ago.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has denied Washington’s responsibility for either the surging terrorism in Iraq or the crisis in Libya in remarks during a surprise visit to Egypt to greet and hold talks with its new president who led the July 2013 coup against the country’s first freely-elected president Mohamed Morsi.
A group of Iraqis have staged a demonstration in the British capital, London, to express their anger at the inflammatory and sectarian reporting of events in the Arab country by the state-run British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Press TV reports.
Takfiri ISIL terrorists in Iraq have released photos of their atrocities and mass execution of civilians in area they have captured in Salahuddin province, claiming that they were army soldiers.
Iran’s top national security official has rejected as “unreal” Western claims on potential Iran-US cooperation in crisis-hit Iraq, insisting that Tehran will consider helping Baghdad if formally requested by the Iraqi government.
Masses of Iraqi volunteers continue to pour into army registration centers across the war-torn nation following a ‘Jihad on terror’ decree issued by the country’s top Shia scholar Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Sistani.
The US military has deployed three warships in the Persian Gulf area in a bid to give the American president the option of potentially ordering airstrikes against suspected al-Qaeda-linked insurgents in Iraq.
Nearly 1.5 million Iraqi citizens have volunteered to join the country’s armed forces to confront foreign-sponsored ISIL terrorists in their bid to destabilize and take over parts of the nation.
Nearly a half-a-million Iraqis have been displaced from their homes in the country's western al-Anbar province due to the foreign-backed terror violence, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says.
The notorious Takfiri terrorist group that calls itself Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has newly released a video footage boasting its gruesome terrorist acts in Iraq.
Militants have attacked a military base in north Iraq, kidnapped 20 soldiers and later shot them dead, officers and a morgue employee say.
Iraqi security forces in the holy city of Samarra have thwarted an attempt by a suicide bomber to detonate a car bomb in the midst of pilgrims and worshipers near the shrine of 10th Shia apostle, Imam Hadi an-Naqi (PBUH), killing the terrorist.
Official figures show more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed and nearly 1,400 others wounded in violent attacks across Iraq last month.
Iraqis have defied a rash of attacks that killed 14 people to vote in the country's first general election since US troops withdrew, with premier Nuri al-Maliki proclaiming "certain" victory.
Attacks in Iraq, including a suicide bombing at a university in north Baghdad, has killed at least nine civilians and wounded several others.