Violence has reignited in western Iraq, with Islamist fighters taking over much of Anbar province three months ago. A renegade al-Qaida group has set up its headquarters in Fallujah — the city where ...

The ongoing situation in Anbar has been threatening the fragile stability in Iraq. Emboldened by the brutal conflict in Syria militant Islamist groups are putting Nouri Al-Maliki’s premiership to the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi authorities have discovered the remains of 16 individuals in newly uncovered mass graves in ...

Iranian-backed militias affiliated with Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces say that up to 30 of their members were killed and wounded in airstrikes on one of their bases east of Baghdad in Iraq’s ...

March 15 (UPI) --American and Iraqi military forces killed a senior Islamic State leader using an airstrike, U.S. Central Command confirmed in a post on social media. Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, ...

Over the last six weeks up to 300,000 Iraqis - some 50,000 families - have been displaced due to insecurity around Fallujah and Ramadi in central Iraq's Anbar Province. With the conflict in Anbar ...

Last December, the Iraqi army unleashed a wide-scale operation aimed at hunting down Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Anbar. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said ...

GENEVA, June 6 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency on Friday said that violence in central Iraq's restive Anbar province has displaced close to half-a-million civilians so far this year. "With a ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Government forces and Shiite militiamen repelled an Islamic State group attack Friday that left 10 soldiers dead in western Iraq’s Anbar province, officials said. The militants attacked ...

BAGHDAD — Government forces and Shiite militiamen repelled a Daesh (the so-called IS) group attack Friday that left 10 soldiers dead in western Iraq's Anbar province, officials said. The militants ...