VOA News – Heather Murdock MOSUL, IRAQ — For the first time in the more than three years since Islamic State militants took over vast swaths of Iraq and Syria, Iraqi [...]
15 Sunni Muslims have been executed by Iraqi Shi’ite militia in Baquab. The executions took place on Wednesday. The 15 Sunni victims had been shot on the head and the [...]
President Obama Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom, President Hollande of France, Chancellor Merkel of Germany, and Prime Minister Renzi of Italy held a video [...]
Thousands of Christians flee from their community and homes in an Iraqi town,Qaraqosh, near Mosul this week because of nearby violence generated by militant Islamist rebels. [...]
According to U.N. investigators, the Islamist rebel group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has been accumulating a large and grisly record of gross human rights [...]
Security officials say fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, took the border town of Qaim overnight after a day of heavy fighting on Friday. In [...]
The US Secretary of Defence ,Chuck Hagel, stated that The Department of Defense will continue to plan and prepare further military options should they become necessary, and [...]
President Obama said the United States of America will be prepared to take targeted and precise military action to blunt the rapid advance of Islamic militants that have been [...]
Labor MP, Kelvin Thompson, in Parliament yesterday stated Australia would be crazy to go back into Iraq. He also stated that neither the Sunni nor Shia leadership in Iraq has [...]
The Australian Greens have called on the Abbott government to rule out sending Iraqi asylum seekers home and allow them to apply for protection in Australia. Greens [...]