US disengaging from the world? Kerry says no

Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 06:54

Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed on Friday as "a myth" suggestions that the United States was withdrawing from world affairs.

Clashes and shelling as 140,000 flee Iraq`s Anbar

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 21:18

Violence in parts of Anbar province held by anti-government fighters killed three people as United Nations warned on Friday of Iraq`s worst displacement since its brutal 2006-08 sectarian conflict.

1,400 dead since Syria rebel-jihadist clashes began

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 01:36

Nearly 1,400 people have been killed in Syria since clashes between rebels and the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) erupted this month, a monitor said Thursday.

Iraq executes 11 more `terrorism` convicts: Ministry

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 19:54

Iraq executed 11 men convicted of charges related to "terrorism" on Thursday, the justice ministry said, just days after another mass execution of 26 convicts.

Obama meets Iraqi speaker on tribal integration

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 07:20

US President Barack Obama discussed the need to integrate Sunni tribal leaders and troops into the Iraqi army with the Sunni speaker of Iraq`s parliament Osama al-Nujaifi.

Iraq says air strikes `kill 50 militants` in Anbar

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 00:44

Air strikes against militant targets in Iraq`s restive western province of Anbar killed at least 50 militants, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.

Iraq says it intends to make 3 new provinces

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 22:05

Iraq`s Shi`ite-led government said it had decided in principle to create three new provinces from contested parts of the country in an apparent attempt to address Sunni grievances and counter the expansion of the Kurdish self-rule region.

Iraq hangs 26 convicted on terror charges

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 21:15

Iraq`s Justice Ministry says 26 prisoners convicted of terrorism-related charges have been executed, all of them Iraqi nationals.

Iraq presses Qaeda offencive, UN warns of more displaced

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 19:03

Iraqi forces pressed an assault on al Qaeda-linked fighters holding parts of a city west of Baghdad today as the UN warned of an "exponential rise" in displaced or stranded families.

Bombings kill 28 in Iraq as offensive continues

Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 18:38

A series of bombings in central Iraq killed 28 people on Monday, as a government official claimed that al Qaeda-linked fighters have dug in to a city they seized last month and possess enough heavy weapons to storm into the country`s capital.

Journalist killed as Iraq forces battle gunmen

Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 15:44

A bombing targeting a police patrol near a conflict-hit city partly held by gunmen west of Baghdad on Monday killed a journalist and wounded another, security and medical officials said.

ISIL `reaching out` to Syria rebels via audio message

Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 00:32

The al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has reached out to other rebel groups in Syria to head off infighting, in an audio message posted online on Sunday.