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Members of the Islamic State. File Photo. (Iraqinews.com) The self-proclaimed Islamic State group launched an offensive against the Syrian regime forces near Albukamal City, southeast of Deir Ezzor, Syria News reported on Thursday. The news agency reported, today, that the ISIS has started a wide-scale assault against the Syrian regime forces in the northe and weste axes of the regime controlled-city of Albukamal. Read more about the ISIS assault against Syrian Regime forces in Albukamal ...

Federal police carry their weapons during a battle against Islamic State militants, at the entrance to the city of Dawasa in Mosul, Iraq, March 5, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani – RTS11ISC Shirqat (IraqiNews.com) ISIS News Today/ Iraqi govement and paramilitary forces recaptured several villages on Thursday as the govement launched a wide-scale, final operation to retake all of Islamic Stat...

Members of Iraqi Federal Police carry their weapon at the frontline during a battle with Islamic State militants in weste Mosul, Iraq June 5, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro Shirqat (IraqiNews.com) ISIS News Today/ Iraqi Federal Police artillery bombarded Islamic State locations in Salahuddin preparing for an imminent invasion of the group’s havens on the province. The service’s chief, Lt. Gen....

Iraqi Sukhoi fighter jets. File photo. Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ISIS News Today/ Two Islamic State militants died on Wednesday when Iraqi army warplanes pounded the group’s locations northeast of Diyala province, a security commander said. Mezher al-Ezzawi, commander of Dijlah Operations, said the pair were stricken by fighter jets while riding their motorbike in Wadi Thallab, Naft Khana, northe...

Members of the Islamic State group. File photo. Annah (IraqiNews.com) ISIS News Today: Islamic State militants used bued petroleum to blur vision for assaulting aircraft as operations continue to clear their havens in weste Anbar. Iraqi website SNG quoted a source at the Anbar Operations Command saying that the militias dug canals in the ground, fill them with black oil and set them on fir...

Iraqi security forces fire a rocket from a position in northe Diyali province, as they take part in a major offensive to retake the key city of Tikrit. Archival photo. Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Liberation offensives will be launched in Islamic State holdouts in each of Salahuddin and kirkuk provinces, a paramilitary official said. “Operations will be launched over the coming few hours at the w...

Dead bodies of Islamic State militants (representational photo) Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) War on ISIS Update: One Islamic State leader and three of his companions were killed Monday when warplanes bombarded their locations north of Salahuddin province, a paramilitary commander reported. Jabbar al-Maamouri, a senior leader at the Popular Mobilization Forces, said an airstrike targeted an Islam...

Representational photo. Qaim (IraqiNews.com) War on ISIS Update: A senior Islamic State security commander was killed on Monday when warplanes pounded group locations in weste Anbar, a security source was quoted saying. Fighter jets from the United States-led coalition killed Hussein Ahmed al-Abdullah, aka Abu Hamza al-Ansari, a Syrian, an an air raid on the town of Qaim, west of Anbar and n...

Iraqi security forces detain a boy after removing a suicide vest from him in Kirkuk in Iraq. Archival photo. Reuters. Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ISIS News Today: A local official in Diyala has announced financial rewards for citizens who kill or arrest suicide bombers targeting their regions. Mohamed Baqer al-Tamimi, mayor of Abi Saida region, told Alghad Press that a security member or citizen wh...

Representational photo. Raqqa (Syria News) The Syrian Democratic Forces militias announced capturing the Children Hospital in the old neighborhoods of Raqqa, after violent clashes with the Islamic State militants. The SDF Spokesman Mostafa Bali said that the Syrian Democratic Forces militias captured the Children Hospital in the old neighborhoods of Raqqa from the grip of the Islamic State mil...

Members of the Islamic State group. File photo. (Syria News) An American organization defending aggrieved Christians, revealed on Tuesday, that the self-proclaimed Islamic State group has executed 250 Christian children in Syria, by putting them in a dough mixer, while criticized the United Nati...

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir (L) and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (R) during a meeting in Baghdad. Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will visit Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for a meeting with King Salman bin Abdulaziz, an Iraqi diplomatic source said Mond...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. File Photo. Raqqa (SyriaNews.media) Syria’s state television announced in the following video that the supreme leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in air strikes on the city of Raqqa, on Saturday, according to a statement published by the so-...

Landmine (representational photo) Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Around 200 families retued back to their homes in Abu Ghraib district, weste Baghdad, after three years of being displaced, according to informed source.The displaced families retued on ...

Iraqi army forces. File photo. (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Media officials with the Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday the killing of the new War Official of the Islamic State extremist group in a military operation, in easte Mosul. The officials said in a press statement, “The terrorist, known as Khaled al-Mitwiti, the new War Official of the Islamic State was killed, after the killing of the former official Mohanad, who was also known as Abi Aisha al-Beblawi.” “Mitwiti was killed by t...

Peshmerga and Turkman militia dig a trench near Kirkuk to prevent sneaking of ISIS members. (IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Leader at al-Hashd al-Turkmani, Abu reda al-Najjar announced digging a 6-km trench in southe Kirkuk, to prevent the sneaking of members of the Islamic State to the city, while pointed out to the participation of the Peshmerga forces in the digging of the security trench. Najjar said in a press statement, “Peshmerga and al-Hashd al-Turkmani militia in the areas between Qasbet B...

Representational photo. (IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Leader at al-Hashd al-Shaabi, Jabbar al-Mamouri declared on Thursday, that masked men stormed into a prison belonging to the Islamic state, and rescued three youths from execution in the district of Hawija, Kirkuk. Mamouri said in a press statement, “Today, masked men stormed into a prison belonging to the Islamic State in the outskirts of Hawija district, southwest of Kirkuk, and killed two guards and rescued three youths who were sentenced t...

Mosul General Hospital. File photo. (IraqiNews.com) Mosul – The self-proclaimed Islamic State began Tuesday to evacuate its wounded militants from hospitals of Mosul, taking them to an unknown destination, local sources told Alsumaria news. “Buses carried tens of wounded Daesh fighters oveight from hospitals to unknown destinations,” said the source who asked to remain anonymous. The source speculated that those destinations could either be inside Mosul or on the way of the Syrian city of R...

SHARE Facebook Twitter The ISIS members. File photo. (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Iraqi media outlets reported on Monday, that militant from the Islamic State stripped Iraqi families of their holdings at the gates of the city of Mosul, while pointed out to the death of three elderly people and a small child as a result of fatigue and exhaustion. Al Sumaria News stated, “Today, ISIS militants put strict checkpoints at the entrances of the city of Mosul for the families that were forcibl...

SHARE Facebook Twitter Representational photo. (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – The Islamic State group arrested five former Imams in the city of Mosul on charges of sedition, Iraqi media outlets reported on Sunday. “Today, ISIS raided a number of neighborhoods in the city of Mosul, and arrested five former Imams on charges of sedition through conducting suspicious meetings at their houses,” Al Sumaria said. Al Sumaria also revealed that the ISIS sacked the arrested Imams months ago and re...