Last October, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared that the Islamic State had been defeated but last month, the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced that they were back and ...

Iraq’s new war against Islamic State: ... Since 2012, he has covered the aftermath of the “Arab Spring” revolution as well as the Islamic State’s resurgence and the campaign to defeat it.

BAGHDAD—Suspected Islamic State militants ambushed a military patrol in northern Iraq late Wednesday, killing two Iraqi soldiers and wounding three others, Iraqi security officials said, in the ...

However, as the government faces a resurgence of al-Qaida-linked groups, fears intensify that security forces are losing their grip on a key part… By PBS News Hour World Jul 23 ...

Islamic State attacks in Kirkuk province are commonplace but this was the largest and bloodiest so far this year. The area’s governor called for an emergency meeting of Iraq’s national ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was killed in an operation by ...

From their position on top of the mountain, the Kurdish peshmerga say Islamic State fighters are living in caves in the no man’s land between Kurdish and Iraqi security forces on the plains below.

Attacks by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq stoke concerns of a resurgence Kurdish forces recently regained control of a Syrian prison that ISIS had been holding. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to ...

The Islamic State can still tap a large war chest of as much as $400 million, which has been hidden in either Iraq and Syria or smuggled into neighboring countries for safekeeping.It is also ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was killed in an operation by ...

The U.S. and Iraq announced an agreement last year to wind down the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by September 2025, with U.S. forces ...