MAHMOUDIYAH, Iraq -- The exhausted Kurdish fighters leaned against a pair of antiquated green cannons on a hill overlooking this northern Iraqi village, the ground around them littered with shrapnel ...

Iraq is taking in thousands of ISIS prisoners from Syria, raising concerns over security in border provinces and testing the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran has entered the fight to retake a major Iraqi oil refinery from Islamic State militants, contributing small numbers of troops — including some operating artillery and other ...

Pentagon says "more than 5,700 adult male ISIS fighters" have been moved to Iraq, completing the operation as questions ...

A major security operation concluded this week as U.S. forces finished moving thousands of ISIS detainees from Syria into Iraqi custody. The mission, which wrapped up following a final nighttime ...

WASHINGTON -- For the first time in the year-plus fight against Islamic State militants, the U.S. is putting American combat troops on the ground in a more permanent role in Iraq and Syria. Defense ...

Hundreds of young Iraqi Shiites volunteered to fight against al-Qaida linked militants after Iraq’s senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, issued a call to arms. "People who ...

WASHINGTON – Sunni Arab opposition to Iraq’s draft constitution has increased the potential for instability and called into question U.S. hopes for substantial troop cuts next spring, the top U.S.

A military helicopter flies over a field in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region during Russia's war on Ukraine [File: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters] The Najaf Criminal Court has sentenced an Iraqi man to life ...