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IAEA discounts significance of ISIL-seized N-material

Thu Jul 10, 2014 16:20:34

The United Nations nuclear body has assessed that the nuclear material reported seized by ISIL terrorist at Mosul University in Iraq is not of a high enough grade to pose any major security threat.

ISIL smashes Iraq tombstones with sledgehammers: Video

Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:21:45

The so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Iraq have been filmed ruthlessly smashing centuries-old graves to pieces in the city of Mosul.

Iraq tells UN ‘terrorist groups’ seize nuclear material

Thu Jul 10, 2014 08:49:36

Militant groups in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad."

ISIL boss, former US prisoner in Iraq

Wed Jul 9, 2014 20:41:31

The leader of the terrorist ISIL group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is a former prisoner held by US authorities in Iraq for five years before being released in 2010.

Iraq PM accuses Kurds of harboring militants

Wed Jul 9, 2014 19:14:33

Iraqi premier Nouri al-Maliki has accused the country's autonomous Kurdish region of harboring militants, as the bodies of 53 men who had been bound and executed have been found in a province south of Baghdad.

ISIL arrests Baathi allies to eliminate potential rivals in Iraq

Wed Jul 9, 2014 10:25:25

One night last week, ISIL terrorists in an SUV with tinted windows pulled up at the home of a former Iraqi army officer, one of the men they see as an obstacle to their goal of establishing a caliphate from Iraq to the Mediterranean.

Iraq tells UN ISIL seized chemical arms depot

Wed Jul 9, 2014 08:16:50

Iraq’s government has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to “armed terrorist groups” and is unable to fulfill its international obligations to destroy toxins kept there, the country’s UN envoy has informed the United Nations.

Baghdad bracing against ISIL radicals' threat

Tue Jul 8, 2014 17:05:44

The Iraqi military is reportedly building fortifications near the capital, Baghdad, to repel potential attacks by ISIL Takfiri terrorists.

Iraq reports major effort to recapture Tikrit in two days

Mon Jul 7, 2014 22:34:17

A key member of Iraq’s Salaheddin province’s provincial council says Iraqi army ground forces launched a massive attack on ISIL militant stronghold of Tikrit on Monday, marking a major test for the army to clear the area from terrorist groups within next two days.

Senior Iraq army commander killed: spokesman

Mon Jul 7, 2014 17:02:43

The commander of the Iraqi army's 6th division has been killed by shelling west of Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's security spokesman said in a statement.

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