Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the United States Colored Troops, which led her to a distant relative, a ...

By bne Gulf bureau Iraq's population stands at 45.4mn people, according to preliminary results from its first comprehensive ...

A roadside bomb in northern Iraq killed three soldiers and wounded two others near Tuz Khurmatu. The Islamic State claimed ...

STORY: Aydin Hadid Talal and his brother were captured by Islamic State in 2014 as the militant group launched its ferocious ...

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Iraqi authorities reported Saturday the dismantling of an Islamic State (IS) cell in Kirkuk province, resulting in the arrest ...

Alcohol has long been easily accessible in Baghdad, but a crackdown in recent years has made booze much more difficult to ...

IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was last seen at Mosul's Great Mosque of al-Nuri in 2014 In 2013, ISI began seizing territory in Syria and changed its name to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ...

Iraqi troops reportedly retook two towns over the weekend that had been seized by the insurgent Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) group. The action may mark a recovery in Baghdad from Isis’s ...

US soldiers in Syria are struggling to contain an Islamic State (ISIS) resurgence in areas of the country previously cleared ...

In June, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militia swarmed across Iraq, conquering huge swaths of territory and even threatening to topple the government in Baghdad. ISIS is now in charge of a ...