Iraq

Heartbreaking photos have emerged of starved lions and bears kept chained up by the ISIS terrorist group in the battle-torn Mosul, northern Iraq.

The Iraqi parliament has approved a "reciprocity measure" after US President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning citizens from Iraq and six other Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.

Warehouses found in the newly liberated al-Arabi neighbourhood in eastern Mosul show that ISIS terrorists have made fake Hummer vehicles made of wood to misinform Iraqi forces about their equipment and facilities.

Iraq's Popular Mobilization on Sunday called on the Iraqi government to ban US nationals from entering Iraq and to expel those who are already in the country, in a reaction to the new US travel curbs on Iraqis.

Thousands of Iraqi children are heading back to school in east Mosul after weeks of fighting and more than two years of the ISIS terrorist group’s rule, the UN children's fund UNICEF said Tuesday.

A commander of Iraqi popular forces announced that the ISIS terrorist group steals 100 tankers of Iraq’s crude oil per day.

Well-known French newspaper Le Monde has presented Ayatollah Sistani, one of the most important Shiite religious leaders, as a man whose absence will leave a massive void in the crisis-hit Iraq.

Iraqi Special Forces have pushed forward to reach a second bridge that links eastern Mosul to the city’s west, which is still fully controlled by the ISIS terrorist group, a military statement said on Friday.

Ali Akbar Velayati, an international advisor to Iran’s Leader, hailed Turkey’s decision to pull its troops out of a town near Mosul in north of Iraq, expressing the hope for a thaw in relations between Turkey and Syria as well.

UN mission in Iraq says nearly 7,000 civilians have been killed in the crisis-hit Iraq, while the figure does not include casualties from Western Anbar for May, July, August and December.

After the ISIS terrorist group occupied the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, it established a registration system to issue identification documents for the inhabitants. Many children now have ID cards issued by the terrorist group.

Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki has hailed Iran’s support for his country in the fight against terrorist groups, saying the Islamic Republic alone came to the help of Iraq in the war on Daesh Takfiri militants.

Iran has strongly condemned a terrorist car bomb attack in the north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, urging collective measures to firmly fight terrorism across the world.

The US President-elect Donald J. Trump says the George W. Bush administration’s move to invade Iraq on false intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) was like a disaster.

At least 113 were killed and injured Monday in three separate bombings in different parts of Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, media reports said.

John Nixon, the first CIA officer to interrogate Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein after his capture in December 2003, has revealed shocking facts about the deposed Iraqi leader that raise new questions about why the United States bothered to invade Iraq to oust him from power.

The Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad says his country will withdraw troops from Iraq, claiming that Ankara does not interfere in the domestic affairs of the Arab country.

A Mufti affiliated with the ISIS terrorist group who had allowed the terrorists to shell the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was killed by the city’s residents.

The US Department of State has raised its reward to $25 million for any information that leads to the capture of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Leader of Iraq’s National Alliance Ammar al-Hakim says the liberation of the Iraqi city of Mosul will be announced soon.

A senior IRGC General says Tehran will show appropriate reaction to a recent deadly attack on Iranian pilgrims.

Members of the Iraqi parliament voted on Saturday to recognize Hashd al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilisation Forces as an official force with similar rights as the regular army.

Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) says the US was behind a recent missile attack which wounded several commanders of popular forces in Tal Afar airport.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has strongly condemned a recent terrorist attack in Iraq which killed hundreds of Shia pilgrims, mostly Iranians, stressing that Tehran and Baghdad are more determined than ever to fight terrorism.

Amid the imminent liberation of the ISIS-held Iraqi city of Mosul, a number of women in Mosul showed their joy by putting off and setting fire on the black clothes the ISIS terrorist group had forced them to wear.