Cash-rich Arab sympathisers funding IS militant

The dreaded Sunni jihadi group Islamic State has been receiving significant financial backing from oil-rich Arab sympathisers outside Iraq and Syria where it controls large swaths.......

Ready to send arms to Iraqi Kurds to fight ISIS: Germany

In a major departure from its long-standing policy of not exporting arms to a conflict region, Germany on Wednesday decided to supply weapons to Kurdish forces battling the "barbaric" Islamic......

Australian freed, 17 die in Iraq

Iraqi troops, backed by US forces, freed an Australian hostage after more than a month in captivity, officials said Wednesday. Also Wednesday, a man wearing a belt packed with explosives killed at......

Hostages freed, 12 killed in Iraq

Twelve people were killed and dozens wounded in car bomb attacks in Iraq on Tuesday ahead of a UN vote on a resolution to give international legitimacy to the new interim government in Baghdad. But......