Kurdish forces mistook a group of Canadian soldiers for militants and fire upon them, killing one and wounding three. At least 303 people were also killed, and another 76 were wounded across the country. A second ancient Iraqi city may have been razed by the Islamic State militants.

As they’re wont to do, last week ISIS released a video of their grim work. This time, the victims in their propaganda piece were not human beings but priceless artifacts housed in the Mosul, Iraq museum. "The Prophet Muhammad commanded us to shatter and destroy...

Dear Petro Poroshenko, Be careful of American support. Now that you are about to become a close ally of the US and a dictator at the same time, you should be warned that this might not be the beginning of a long-living love affair that inevitably ends with an account...

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest-ranking Shi’ite cleric in Iraq, called on the government to provide weapons and supplies to Sunnis in Anbar province. During his Friday sermon, he said that the Sunnis in Anbar have shown a patriotic attitude against the militants, but the shortages they are suffering could encourage them to change their sides. He also warned militiamen not to seek revenge on civilians.

Originally posted at TomDispatch. It was a typical little news story on Washington’s drone wars – six paragraphs from Yemen, the sort of minimalist report that, in these years, has also regularly come out of Pakistan or even, from time to time, Somalia....

Western news media has feasted on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s talk and the reactions to it as a rare political spectacle rich in personalities in conflict. But the real story of Netanyahu’s speech is that he is continuing a long tradition in Israeli politics of...

While we’re fighting the Islamic State, a.k.a. ISIS, in Iraq and Syria, and American officials tout the alleged danger of an attack on the US homeland, in Ukraine Washington and the Caliphate are fighting on the same side. A remarkable series of articles by Marcin...

As fighting intensifies in the Tikrit region, Islamic State militants may be in the process of destroying one of the world’s most important archaeological sites, Nimrud, near Mosul. Meanwhile, at least 339 people were killed, most of them militants. Another 36 were wounded.

Having refrained from writing in the first person here before – except in one or two instances that I can recall – I beg my readers for an indulgence to do so now. For you see, this is a special, quasi-column: a not-quite-goodbye. Some of you may have noticed a couple...

According to the Minster of the Interior, Iraqi forces are making some progress, if slow, in the Salah ad-Din operation. At least 139 were killed and 16 more were wounded.