Gunmen have kidnapped an Iraqi female journalist after posing as members of the security forces and bursting into her home in Baghdad, authorities said Tuesday. Afrah Shawqi Hammudi was abducted Monday at around 10:00 pm (1900 GMT) from her home in a southern neighborhood of the capital,...

Iraqi forces will resume their push against Islamic State inside Mosul in the coming days, a U.S. battlefield commander said, in a new phase of the two-month-old operation that will see American troops deployed closer to the front line in the city. The battle for Mosul, involving 100,000...

At least five Daesh members were captured alive in an operation carried out Monday by the Iraqi army’s 16th division and Nineveh Guards Force, according to an officer in the Iraqi army. Iraqi army’s Brig. Gen. Mahmoud Saad Zubeiri told Anadolu Agency that "a joint fighting force of...

At least 30 civilians were killed and many others were wounded on Sunday after ISIS launched an attack in the Syrian town of al-Bab to prevent people from fleeing, the Turkish military said in a statement on Monday. Syrian rebels supported by Turkish troops have laid siege to the ISIS-held...