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ISIS attack in western Iraq kills 10 soldiers

Extremist fighters killed at least 10 soldiers in the western Iraqi province of Anbar Tuesday in their latest deadly attack on security forces in the area, officers said. The latest attack near the remote outpost of Rutba brought to at least 26 the number of members of the Iraqi security...

Iran to keep up military support for Syria regime

Iran will maintain its support for the Syrian government despite the deaths of hundreds of its advisers and volunteers in the six-year civil war, a commander said in comments published Tuesday. Shiite Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah are the Syrian regime's most important military...

Iraqi state gas firm official shot dead in Kirkuk city

Gunmen shot dead a senior official of Iraq's state-run North Gas Company (NGC) Tuesday as he was heading to his office in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police and company sources said. Deputy NGC manager Mohammed Younis, an Iraqi Kurd, and his driver were killed instantly when assailants...

US airstrike turned a home in Iraq's Mosul into a death trap

Accounts from witnesses and survivors cast doubt on American suggestions that ISIS was to blame for the deaths of more than 100 people taking refuge in a house hit by a U.S. airstrike earlier this year in Mosul, the deadliest single incident of the months-long campaign to retake the Iraqi city....