Iraq
Warnings on Iraq ISIS attack ignored–Kurdistan official
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Iraq
UN chief opposes military strikes on extremists in Iraq
Iraq
More Dutch jihadists traveling to Iraq: minister
Iraq
How ISIS is spreading its message online
Iraq
Baghdad’s Sunni fighters: we are ready for zero hour
Iraq
Top Shiite cleric calls for new government in Iraq
Ansar al Islam claims attacks against Iraqi military, police
Ansar al Islam, a jihadist group founded in northern Iraq in September 2001, has claimed a number of attacks against the Iraqi government since the rebel offensive began earlier this month.
Australia
Official: 150 Australians fighting in Syria, Iraq
Iraq
Kurdish peshmerga prepare to fight again to reclaim homeland
Iraq
Iraqis, Saudis call the shots in ISIS ‘capital’ Raqqah
Iraq
ISIS storms Saddam-era chemical weapons complex in Iraq
Iran
US should launch targeted military strikes on ‘terrorist army’ ISIS, says General David Petraeus
ISIS photos show gains and Iraqi support
Photos released by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham to social media sites illustrate the group’s gains in Ninewa as well as public support for the offensive.
Iraq
Iraq has asked for air power, says top US military official
Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham took control of the Bayji oil refinery. The Iraqi government has requested US air support to help fight ISIS. US officials are indicating that Prime Minister Maliki must step down to resolve the crisis.
Iraq
US signals Iraq’s Maliki should go
ISIS takes control of Iraq’s largest refinery in Bayji
Iraq’s largest oil refinery is now in the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham.
Iraq
Cameron says foreign fighters in Iraq, Syria most serious threat to UK
France
French Islamists with ISIS in the perfect terrain for jihad
Iraq
Iraqi Christians flee homes amid militant push
Hezbollah
Iraq Shiite Volunteers in Syria Head Home to Fight Rebels
Iraq
US forces move into Iraq with security mission
Iraq
UN investigators warn of wider sectarian war across Iraq, Syria
Iraq
Iraq’s Maliki defies call to reach out, accuses Saudis of ‘genocide’
ISIS, Iraqi forces battle for capital of Diyala
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham is pressing its offensive into Diyala province to the northeast of Baghdad in order to cut off the road from Baghdad to Samarra.
ISIS releases a variety of videos
The videos document an attack on a police station, the freeing of prisoners, and the details of the group’s 18 core tenets.
Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham took control of Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq. The military claimed it killed 20 ISIS fighters in airstrikes in Balad and an ISIS commander from Algeria and four aides in Fallujah. The military also claimed it retook Jurf al Sakhar and killed 28 ISIS fighters.
ISIS ‘a transnational jihadist group’
Thomas Joscelyn discusses Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, its goals to establish a caliphate and current offensive in Iraq, the destabilizing influence of Iran, and the West’s lack of strategy to deal with jihadism.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham’s quiet war minister
Little is publicly known about the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham’s war minister. But he was appointed in April 2010 and the war ministry he leads has been in charge of planning the group’s operations in the past.
Iran
Iraq forces blunt ISIS advance, US Embassy bolsters security