Iraq

The US aid worker apparently looked after younger hostages before her death in February 2015

The number of dead buried in the unmarked pits ranges from 5,200 to 15,000.

Human rights watch has said government-funded militias are recruiting children from refugee camps.

Security forces were able to shoot dead four of the five suicide bombers before they detonated devices

Iraqi officials have repeatedly warned Thamer al-Sabhan not to intervene in domestic matters.

The £1bn vessel have been refitted after initial problems handling high temperatures.

Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service worked with armed locals to drive Daesh out of Qayyarah.

The Wadi al-Salam cemetery in Najaf covers about 10 square kilometres and contains five million bodies.

Extremist Islamist group is quicker to kill deserters as tensions mount in the face of Iraqi advance.

A British contractor has died and another worker injured while clearing explosives in Ramadi.

The footage shows police carefully cut the explosive belt from the young child's body.

Townsend makes comments after Syrian warplanes attack area where US forces were operating.

Daesh carried out the mass executions in 2014 after taking control of Tikrit.

Iraqis from Kirkuk, Fallujah and Mosul struggle as country fails to solve refugee crisis

Pro-government forces have encircled the militants in a shrinking section of the centre of Daesh's former North African stronghold.

Survivors say the militants told them they were going home, before the attack begun.

Officers can be heard shouting instructions and asking each man their name in search of Isis supporters.

Multiple reports from Mosul suggest the gruesome execution took place in Shora square.

Nadia Murad Basee Taha of the Yazidi sect was kept captive for 3 months in 2015.

It is believed the group also posted photos of the execution on social media.

The public execution was carried out by religious police as punishment for sex.

Photos of the military campaigns to recapture major Isis strongholds in Syria, Libya and Iraq.

An article claims that the extremist group locked their own fighters in cars filled with poisonous gas.

Ministry of Health said electrical fault was to blame for blaze in neo-natal unit and maternity ward.

Bafana Bafana can qualify for the knockout stages by beating Iraq in Sao Paulo.

Controversial church says tiny electronic gospels will be dropped from drones over Iraq.

The UN's refugee agency said 12 of the fleeing villagers were executed.

Viral video shows what looks like molten lava produced from temperatures of over 3,000C.

The ministry of defence says the air strike was part of an offensive against IS in northern Iraq.

UN warning comes as Iraqi PM is under pressure to speed up executions after Baghdad bomb killed 323.