Iraqi forces have pushed into a town south of Mosul after Islamic State fighters fled with civilians used as human shields, officials said.

Richard N Haass says the Chilcot Report should be widely read because the Iraq War was costly enough without people learning the wrong lessons from it

Tens of thousands of trapped Iraqi civilians are running out of food and medicine in the western city of Falluja, an Islamic State (IS) stronghold under siege by security forces, according to local officials and residents.

Iraqi forces claim that they are in full control of the city of Ramadi, recapturing it from Islamic State fighters.

Armed forces storm into heart of militant stronghold city of Ramadi

Russia and Iran may need to join a ‘coalition of the willing’ so they can work with the West and finally rid the world of the scourge of Islamic State, writes Richard N. Haass

Doctor to Michael Jackson is just one chapter in the story of Dr Patrick Treacy, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

Iraqi forces, trained by the US in recent years and reinforced with US armour, is losing military equipment to Islamic State at a staggering rate, writes Peter Van Buren

Islamic State (IS) extremists have unleashed a wave of suicide attacks targeting the Iraqi army in western Anbar province, killing at least 17 troops.

Defence secretary critical of US bid to help Iraq fight Islamic State

President Barack Obama acknowledged that US intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants and overestimated the ability and will of Iraq’s army to fight.

President Barack Obama has acknowledged that US intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants and overestimated the ability and will of Iraq’s army to fight.

At least 1,075 people have been killed in Iraq during June, most of them civilians, according to United Nations human rights monitors.

Iraqis braved the fear of violence today to vote in the first election since the US military withdrawal, though delayed voting in some parts of the country and an apparently lacklustre turnout elsewhere has cast doubt about the credibility of the vote.

Insurgents in Iraq detonated a series of car bombs across Iraq today as co-ordinated attacks killed at least 55 people on the deadliest day in nearly a month.

Insurgents killed at least 64 people in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces today.

Militants have downed an Iraqi army helicopter and killed nearly a dozen security forces in overnight clashes in what appeared to be an al-Qaida surge to retake one of its former strongholds in Iraq.

Syrian President Bashar al- Assad made his first appearance yesterday since a bomb killed some of his top lieutenants, looking calm and composed on state TV, even as his forces turned parts of Damascus into combat zones and rebels seized two of the country’s border crossings.

Syrian president Bashar Assad made his first appearance today since the bomb blast which killed some of his top lieutenants.

Years of conflict and violence have left an indelible mark on Iraqi citizens, their lands and their future. But it is the Iraqis’ resilience, and indeed their black humour, which strikes a chord with Political Reporter, Juno McEnroe

A slew of bombings targeting Iraqi police in Baghdad has killed 10 people and wounded more than 20, Iraqi officials said.

Iraqi Security forces have stormed a police station taken over by gunmen, leaving three hostages dead.

Rebels have broken into a police station in western Iraq and are holding a number of officers hostage, officials said today.

A suicide bomber blew himself up near an Iraqi army checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul, killing seven people, according to officials.

Ten soldiers were killed and 29 other people injured when a suicide bomber blew up his booby-trapped car outside an Iraqi army battalion headquarters in the country’s east today.

THOUSANDS marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq yesterday, in the largest and most violent anti-government protests here since political unrest began spreading in the Arab world several weeks ago.

Security forces have killed five people in northern Iraq as thousands of protesters rallied in cities across the country for a “Day of Rage.”

Two car bombs tore through car parks packed with Shia pilgrims today in an Iraqi holy city, pushing the death toll from a week of attacks to more than 170.

Twelve people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the offices of a mobile phone company in western Baghdad today, an Iraqi army official has said.

Suicide bombers struck at a Baghdad military headquarters today killing 12 people.

Militants detonated a car bomb at a Baghdad military headquarters today and then tried to shoot their way into the building, killing eight people and wounding 29 in a brazen morning attack, Iraqi officials said.

A SUICIDE bomber sat for hours yesterday among hundreds of army recruits before detonating nail-packed explosives strapped to his body, killing 61 people and casting new doubt on the ability of Iraqi forces as US troops head home.

A suicide bomber sat for hours among hundreds of unprotected army recruits today before detonating nail-packed explosives strapped to his body, killing 61 people and casting new doubt on the ability of Iraqi forces as US troops head home.

A suicide bomber blew himself up among dozens of Iraqi army recruits in Baghdad today in a devastating strike that officials said killed 51 people and wounded 119.

At least 41 people have been killed and 112 wounded in a suicide bombing strike against Iraqi army recruits in Baghdad today.

AN Iraqi general has called into question whether his troops are ready to defend the country against a stubborn insurgency and external threats.

Gunmen burst into an Iraqi house, killed three people, then sent the surviving children to lure in soldiers from nearby Iraqi army checkpoint, killing eight.

Four policemen were killed today in one of a series of fatal attacks in Iraq, officials said.

Iraqis voted today in an election testing the mettle of the country’s still-fragile democracy as insurgents killed 25 people across the Iraq, unleashing a barrage of mortars intent on disrupting the historic day.

Three Iraqi suicide bombers killed at least 30 people in a series of co-ordinated attacks in the city of Baqouba today.

Three suicide bombings killed six people and wounded 20 others in the city of Baqouba today, just days before Iraqis head to the polls in key parliamentary elections.