Northern Iraq offensive

A Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson has confirmed that a senior Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) member, who had been hiding in Turkey, was captured in a complex cross-border sting carried out by the Iraqi, Turkish and American intelligence agencies. 

The bodies of 39 Indian construction workers kidnapped in Iraq in 2014 by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been found in a mass grave, India's foreign minister said yesterday.

 U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused Iran on Thursday of "mucking around" in Iraq's May parliamentary election, in which Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is seeking another term after a successful, U.S.-backed war against Islamic State militants, Reuters reported.

Iraq’s parliament approved a long-delayed budget on March 3, the first since declaring victory over Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ç(ISIL) after three years of war, but Kurdish lawmakers boycotted the vote over their region’s diminished allocation.

Rebuilding Iraq after three years of war with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) will cost $88.2 billion, with housing a particularly urgent priority, Iraqi officials told an international conference yesterday.

Al-Qaeda’s global network remains “remarkably resilient,” posing more of a threat in some regions than Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), U.N. sanctions monitors said in a report seen by AFP on Feb. 7.

The U.S. military plans to stay in Syria as long as necessary to ensure the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) does not return, a Pentagon official told AFP on Dec. 5. 

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who crossed into Turkey after being defeated in Syria and Iraq pose a serious threat, according to a prosecutor investigating one of the jihadists.

A number of families of missing Turkish suspects of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have asked the country’s authorities to bring their relatives back to Turkey to try them.

Iraqi security forces have found a mass grave with at least 400 victims of the Islamic State terrorist group in the northern province of Kirkuk.