Iraq

IS revels in documenting acts of savagery but there's more to it that is at odds with its public image.

Popular Mobilization Forces say it has no support from the Iraqi government

President says training of Iraqi troops to combat jihadists will be accelerated.

Iraqi flag now flies over local government building of key refinery town, state TV reports.

The fall of the city was a crushing strategic blow to the Iraqi army and its allies.

Former Iraqi foreign minister was waiting execution in prison.

Nahum Elkoshi's 2,700-year-old tomb lies inside one of the last remaining synagogues in Iraq.

Video alleges militia chant Shia slogans as they set fire to Isis jihadist.

Muhammed Amin moved to the self-declared Islamic Caliphate with his daughter, four grandsons and his wife

List issued by the International Council of Museums contains coins, statues and other antiquities that could be sold on the black market.

Attack in Anbar province is another sign of the slowing counter-attack by Iraqi government forces.

Bombs exploded in the car parks of the Babylon Hotel and the Ishtar hotel, both of which are popular with western tourists.

Reports claim IS detonated former Assyrian capital north of Tikrit

Tony Blair has stood down as Middle East peace envoy after eight years

Kurdish peshmerga fighters are being backed up by US air strikes.

EXCLUSIVE: IBTimes UK reports from the Kurdish frontline in Mosul - just 12km from the Islamic State

Anbar provincial capital was captured by the Islamic State earlier this month.

Amatuer video purports to show buildings in the Isis-seized city damaged by Syrian air strikes.

US says despite Iraqi forces having the capacity to fight Isis, they failed due to 'lack of will' in Ramadi.

Lord Dannatt argues that sending 5,000 soldiers to Iraq essential for halting progress of Islamic State.

Iraqi army forces and Shia militias are counterattacking against Islamic State insurgents near Ramadi.

General Jack Keane tells US Senate Armed Forces Committee war against IS is being lost.

Sardar sentenced to minimum 38 years for murdering Sgt Randy Johnson during Iraqi insurgency in 2007.

In a first for pop music, Kurdish singer Helen Abdulla actually goes to war in video for her new single, Revolution.

EXCLUSIVE: Choudary has cultivated his notoriety as an outrageous Muslim fanatic fighting a jihad of words.

Cab driver guilty of killing US sergeant in Iraq in 2007 with explosive device.

Iraqi Prime Minister compares battle against Islamic State to Soviet struggle with Nazi Germany in Moscow talks.

Iraqi army forms two regiments of Anbar tribal fighters to retake city close to Baghdad.

Taking of Ramadi marked significant victory for IS in Iraq.

Islamic State stands little chance of retaining Ramadi with up to 10,000 Shia fighters rallying outside city