Five people were killed and one was injured in a tribal dispute in Iraq’s southern province of Diwaniyah, local authorities ...

As Kurds themselves face persecution from both Turkey and Iran, their violence against Assyrians has only intensified through excessive land theft. Assyrians today face complete disenfranchisement in ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi government recently repatriated some 700 nationals linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) ...

Without military forces in country, the US has been unable to support the Iraqi government in a counterterrorism campaign against al Qaeda in Iraq. And the US lost its access to the Sunni tribes in ...

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The Obama administration's plan for Iraq - train 20,000 Iraqi troops and incorporate Sunni tribes into a new national guard - is off to a rough start: First, many details of the training program ...