“Islamist fighters” on Monday kidnapped some 300 Kurdish civilians at a checkpoint in northwestern Syria, Kurdish officials and a local journalist told AFP.
ISIS militants have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria they had raided, Christian Syrian activists said, Reuters reported.
Shiite militias allied with Iraqi security forces are flooding into the Iraqi city of Kirkuk to help Kurdish peshmerga soldiers defend the city from the ISIS terrorist group, AP reports.
This is what’s left of the Syrian village of Halimce after fierce fighting between Kurdish forces and ISIS.
Kurdish militia drove the ISIS group from the Kurdish town of Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan and raised their flags on Monday, dealing the terrorists an important blow after months of heavy fighting, E kurd daily reports.
The ISIL terrorist group has executed 150 women in the Western Iraqi province of Anbar for refusing to marry Takfiri militants.
At least 43 ISIL militants were killed and 38 others injured in airstrikes in South of Tikrit, as the Iraqi forces intensified their offensive on the Takfiri group.
ISIL Takfiri terrorists have demolished several mosques and shrines belonging to Shia and Sunni Muslims in the Iraqi province of Salahuddin.
Kurdish Peshmarga fighters continued their push against the ISIL Takfiri group in Nineveh province, and managed to liberate two areas from the control of the terrorists.
ISIL terrorists tortured and abused Kurdish children captured earlier this year near the northern Syrian town of Kobani, beating them with hoses and electric cables, an international rights group said.
Kurdish forces have liberated the Syrian city of Kobani bordering Turkey from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists, Lebanese television channel Al Mayadeen reported Monday.
Kurds have staged anti-ISIL demonstrations in French cities, criticizing Turkey for what they called Ankara’s support for the Takfiri group wreaking havoc on Iraq and Syria
Kurdish troops backed by warplanes battled the ISIL group on three fronts in northern Iraq on Tuesday, clawing back land they lost to the Terrorists in recent months.
Iraq’s President Fuad Masum has praised Iran as the first country to provide weapons to Iraq to fight against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
At least 300 Kurdish fighters crossed from Turkey into Syria overnight to battle ISIL trying to seize a strategic border town, a monitor said Saturday.
Three months after the advance of ISIL terrorist group and its allies in northern and central Iraq, government forces are now gaining ground in the fight against Takfiri militants.
The possible successor to Nouri al-Maliki as Iraq’s next prime minister is a British-educated engineer who is expected to be more conciliatory with Iraq’s Sunnis and Kurds, observers say.
Kurds from Iraq, Syria and Turkey joined forces in north Iraq Wednesday to try to reclaim areas lost to ISIL militants and rescue thousands of civilians stranded in mountains without food or water.
Veteran Iraqi politician Fuad Masum was almost guaranteed to become Iraq's next president after the main Kurdish blocs in parliament agreed on his candidacy Thursday.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who has been in Germany for medical treatment since December 2012, will return home on Saturday, his party said in a statement.