Iraq

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

Amateur video comes after Iraqi officials confirm city has fallen to Isis militants.

Isis militants seal Ramadi and sent Iraqi troops fleeing as death toll from fighting in Ramadi hit 500.

Photos revealed show Isis militants measuring the wound they intend to cause on a young man.

Dozens of security forces taken hostage by Isis jihadists as militants hoist their flags atop government buildings.

Our intelligence suggests this cache of devastating rockets has been seized by Islamic State militants.

Baghdadi urges Muslims to take up arms on behalf of Isis.

Two separate bomb attacks rock Iraqi capital.

Mayor claims he warned authorities of danger of keeping prisoners in Khalis jail, to no effect.

The Islamic State have renovated and opened a luxury hotel in Iraq which will be used by its Jihadist commanders.

Iraqi Vice-President Osama al-Nujaifi described the mass killing as 'horrific and barbaric'.

The Islamic State leader and self-declared caliph reportedly remains in critical condition.

Tweeters see kinship with Baltimore 'rebels'

How Yemen's Islamic State branch Wilayat Sana'a fits in to a radical landscape so far dominated by Al Qaeda.

Obama's foreign policy has come under fire after the cost of airstrikes in Middle East is revealed.