Iraqi forces closed in on the river that runs through central Mosul on Saturday in advances against ISIS that have gathered pace thanks to new tactics and better coordination, a counterterrorism spokesman said. Advances in recent days, including Saturday's push to within several hundred...

Iraq's state TV says the Turkish Prime Minister has arrived in Baghdad in his first visit since the two governments quarreled over the presence of unauthorized Turkish troops in northern Iraq. The Saturday report didn't give details on the schedule of Binali Yildirim's two-day visit. On his...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday announced that some of the millions of Syrian and Iraqis who have fled to Turkey would be given Turkish nationality. "Our interior ministry is carrying out work, and under this work, some of them will be granted our nationality after all the necessary...

The Iraqi army and pro-government tribal fighters captured several villages on Friday -- without facing resistance -- from the Daesh terrorist group in the western Anbar province, according to a military official. Army Major-General Numan Abdel-Zawbaei told Anadolu Agency that Iraqi forces...