Iraq

Baghdad troops retake town which holds country's largest oil refinery, government official says

Pentagon's military chief says ground troops may be required to retake city of Mosul.

Pictures taken in a refugee camp in Suruc, Turkey in October of this year show familiar scenes.

Islamist leader released message after reports he was injured in an air strike.

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At least 50 civilians, including eight children, killed in strikes against terror group.

BREAKING: Iraqi television reports Abu Huthaifa al-Yamani slain in strike just days after IS leader injured.

Egypt's most active militant group release audio clip on Twitter in support of terror group.

New phase will see doubling of US troops training Iraqi soldiers, but US forces will not engage in combat.

Speculation is mounting that Isis leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi may have been killed in a coalition airstrike on Friday.

A British man from Derby, Kabir Ahmed is reported to have died in a suicide bombing in the northern oil refinery town of Baiji.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to be seriously injured and two IS leaders are dead after a coalition attack on a gathering of IS leaders.

The deployment will double the presence of US military in Iraq, marking an escalation in the US campaign against Islamic State.

Radical Muslim preacher who hailed killers of Alan Henning now wants to join Islamic State.

Tehran to establish 'parallel army' to help Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria.

US President Barack Obama says the "number one mission" in Syria is to get Isis out of Iraq.

Denis Cuspert seen holding a severed head and speaking in German in gruesome video.

The move marks a return of British forces to the country for the first time in more than two years.

Anti-Radicalisation expert Sulaimaan Samuel: Henning murder marked turning point for Isis propaganda campaign

Thousands of Yazidi women have been forced into sex slavery by Islamic State militants.

Senior IDF officer says United States, Canada and France are on the same side as Hezbollah, Iran and Assad

Gruesome discovery in province overrun by Islamic State militants.

About 150 Kurdish Peshmerga forces are en route to the Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobani to battle IS militants.

Pentagon revises estimate of air war in Iraq and Syria up to $580m total.

Children as young as six years old are being trained as suicide bombers and the Islamic State's soldiers of the future, according to Foreign Policy.

Teachers threatened with death for breaking Islamic State interpretation of Sharia Law

Lance Corporal Sean P Neal dies of non-combat injury in US's Operation Inherent Resolve.

Iraqi forces nowhere near capacity to tackle Isis, according to US Central Command

US Treasury official threatens to impose economic sanctions on buyers of Isis oil.

Nearly a dozen Iraqi security personnel in hospital near Baghdad with symptoms of chlorine gas poisoning.