The Islamic State group has released at least 200 Yazidis after five months of captivity in Iraq, mostly elderly prisoners who may have been slowing the extremists down.

Cork-based Ali Raza is haunted by a childhood of expulsion and war in Iraq, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Turkey’s top diplomat has announced that his country is helping Iraqi Kurdish fighters cross into Syria to “give support” to fellow Kurds defending the border town of Kobani from Islamic State militants.

France says it has carried out its first airstrike in Iraq and has destroyed a logistics depot held by the Islamic State group.

MANY victims of landmines or unexploded war munitions in Iraq are children.

Pehmerga soldier Chnor Sabir Karim on duty in Sulaymaniyah.

SIX police officers were killed and 15 wounded in car bomb attacks on Iraq’s security services, as political factions wrangled over putting together a government.

A SUICIDE car bomber struck the US intelligence headquarters in Irbil yesterday killing three Iraqis.

US SOLDIERS began securing oilfields and the airport in the key northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk yesterday as lawlessness and tensions between ethnic groups appeared to be on the rise, and Turkey voiced its concerns about a Kurdish nation on its borders.