(Reuters) - Iraqi forces have entered al-Qaim, one of the last remaining territories in the country still held by Islamic State militants, the Joint Operations Command said on Friday. Units from the Iraqi army, Counter-Terrorism Services, Sunni tribal and Iranian-backed Popular...

Iraqi forces captured Thursday the Akkas gas field from Daesh (ISIS), Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi told reporters in Baghdad. Iraqi forces launched last month an offensive to oust the militant group from the last area still under its control in Iraq, on the border with Syria, where the...

Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of Ramallah Thursday to protest on the 100th anniversary of Britain's Balfour Declaration, which helped lead to Israel's creation and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas used the occasion to denounce the...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s Kurdistan region said on Thursday it has offered a joint Kurdish-Iraqi deployment at a strategic crossing into Turkey, with the participation of the U.S.-led coalition that was helping fight Islamic State. The offer was disclosed hours after Iraqi armed...