Iraq
Iraq crackdown kills 13 protesters after Iran mission torched
Iraqi security forces have cracked down on anti-government protesters in the strife-torn south, leaving 13 people dead in a bloody escalation hours after the torching of an Iranian consulate.
Iraq suicide attacks kill 18
Two suicide bomb attacks near the entrance of a military base north of Baghdad and by a market in the Iraqi capital killed at least 18 people, police say.
20,000 children trapped in Iraq's Fallujah: UN
At least 20,000 children are trapped in jihadist bastion Fallujah under siege by Iraqi forces and face shortages and forced recruitment as fighters, the UN Children's Fund says.
IS hits back as army moves into Falluja
Militants from the so-called Islamic State have launch a dawn counter-attack as Iraqi government troops push into the city of Falluja.
Greece starts to move Idomeni migrants
Greece begins evacuating thousands of stranded migrants from the makeshift Idomeni camp on its northern border with Macedonia.
Three bombings in Baghdad kill 63
Three bombings have killed at least 63 people and wounded more than 100 in Baghdad today, police and medical sources said, extending the deadliest spate of attacks in the Iraqi capital so far this...
IS leader in Iraq's Anbar killed: Pentagon
A key leader of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq's Anbar province has been killed in a coalition air strike, the Pentagon says.
Australian IS recruiter killed in Iraq
An Australian man said to be a senior recruiter for the so-called Islamic State group has been killed by a US airstrike in Iraq, reports say.
Obama sued for lack of authority to fight IS
An Army captain sued President Barack Obama on Wednesday, alleging that he doesn't have the proper congressional authority to wage war against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
Terror cell 'unfazed' by earlier arrests
Around the time that Singapore announced in January the arrest and deportation of 27 radicalised Bangladeshis under the Internal Security Act (ISA), S-Pass holder Rahman Mizanur, 31, came up with...
Iraq PM orders arrest of protesters
Iraq's Prime Minister orders the arrest of Shia Muslim activists who stormed parliament in protest at delays in approving a new cabinet.