Extremists from Daesh (ISIS) and fighters from Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary coalition were locked in fierce clashes near Mosul Tuesday, with nearly 30 reported dead, the coalition said. Mosul, Iraq's second city, was retaken from Daesh in July after a massive months-long...

Iraqi pro-government paramilitaries launched an offensive against Kurdish troops on Tuesday near the Turkish frontier, pushing towards a strategic border crossing and oil export pipeline hub that Baghdad says must come under its control. The Iraqi government has transformed the balance...

Kurdish Peshmerga forces on Monday redeployed from positions on Iraq’s Sinjar-Dohuk highway to a nearby border crossing. The Faysh Khabur crossing links the Duhok province in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region to both Turkey and Syria. “Peshmerga fighters have reclosed the...

Kuwait's emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah has warned that the Gulf crisis was posing a threat to regional security.  Addressing the opening session of the National Assembly on Tuesday, the emir said the crisis would have dangerous consequences on the Gulf security. ...