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Deal signed to repair Iraq dam at risk of collapsing
- Middle East
- March 2, 2016, 15:59
Iraq has signed a deal with an Italian company to repair and maintain the country’s largest dam near the northern, Islamic State-held city of Mosul. (...)

Julian Assange calls on Sweden, Britain to allow him freedom
- UK
- February 5, 2016, 17:46
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on Britain and Sweden on Friday to let him freely leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a UN panel rule(...)

At least 51 killed in series of attacks in Iraq
- Middle East
- January 11, 2016, 18:49
Gunmen detonated suicide vests inside a shopping complex in Baghdad on Monday and a car bomb exploded nearby in an attack claimed by Islamic State tha(...)

Ramadi grapples with scars of war after its return to Iraqi hands
- Middle East
- January 8, 2016, 15:58
As his armoured vehicle bounced along a dirt track carved through the ruins of this recently reconquered city on Wednesday, Gen Ali Jameel, an Iraqi c(...)

Isis Inc: Loot and taxes keep jihadi economy churning
- Economy
- December 15, 2015, 10:05
Even under jihadi rule, death and taxes remain the two great certainties of life. Some learn that the hard way. As Islamic State officials announced (...)

Iraqi intelligence says it warned France of imminent attacks
- Europe
- November 15, 2015, 19:04
An Iraqi intelligence dispatch sent to coalition countries warned of imminent assaults by Islamic State the day before the deadly attacks in Paris kil(...)

Freed prisoners of Islamic State tell of beatings and torture
- Middle East
- October 28, 2015
Muhammad Hassan Abdullah al-Jibouri had long ago lost hope that he would ever make it out of Islamic State’s jail alive, and he had not even seen the(...)

US soldier killed in Islamic State hostage rescue mission
- Middle East
- October 22, 2015, 16:06
A member of a US special operations team was killed during an operation to rescue hostages held by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, the first(...)

Sex slavery adopted and codified by Islamic State
- Middle East
- August 14, 2015, 16:22
In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Be(...)

A military operation has been launched to drive Islamic State out of the western Anbar province of Iraq, where the extremists captured the provincial (...)