Downing Street announced on Wednesday that David Cameron and other government ministers would start using the word "Daesh" when referring to the terror group.
A total of 1,325 Iraqis were killed and 1,811 others injured in terrorist attacks and violence in August in Iraq, the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said in a statement on Tuesday.
The key responsibility of the Islamic media is to counter the influence of the United States in the region, Ali-Akbar Velayati, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's advisor on international affairs, said here on Sunday.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Saturday hit back at her Republican rival Jeb Bush over his remarks that President Barack Obama's decision to bring back U.S. troops in Iraq led to the rise of the Islamic State.
U.S. authorities believed that the extremist group, the Islamic State (IS), likely used mustard agent against Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The U.S. Army's departing top general said Wednesday that his country should consider embedding its soldiers into the Iraqis if the campaign against the Islamic State (IS) fails to yield good progress in the coming months.
Britain will extend its air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq by an extra year, British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said Tuesday.
Iran's Foreign Ministry denied that Tehran and Washington have any joint plan to fight the militants of the Islamic State (IS) in the region, Alalam TV channel reported Monday.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday called for unity among Iraqi political and ethnic groups against terrorism challenges.
The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq was a main reason for the expansion of the Islamic State (IS) militant group as well as the general chaotic situation in the Middle East region, said Egyptian political experts.
Car bomb attacks killed at least 28 government-backed militiamen and wounded 36 others in Iraq on Tuesday, a security source said.
As many as 140 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed Tuesday by Syrian airstrikes in the northern province of Raqqa, the de facto capital of IS, according to the state news agency SANA.
Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated Russia's traditional friendship with Iraq and pledged to expand cooperation between the two countries in a host of areas including anti-terrorism when he met with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi here Thursday, according to the Kremlin press release.
The fall of Ramadi, capital of Iraq' s largest Anbar province, to the hands of Islamic State (IS) militants is a big blow to both the U.S. policy and the Iraqi security forces who originally were preparing to free the territories held earlier by the extremist group.
The Obama administration on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for a united Iraq, voicing opposition to its Kurdistan region's aspiration for independence.
A total of 28 people were killed and over 29 others wounded on Monday in bomb attacks and clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq, security sources said.
The U.S. and coalition forces continued their air raids on the Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria and Iraq over the past two days, the coalition announced on Saturday.
简体中文
