Troops liberated the city center of Hawija and nearby Riyadh.

Several children were wounded when a bomb exploded in Sinjar.

Operations in the Hawija region and in Anbar are causing thousands to flee the fighting or just escape ISIS/Daesh.

A bomb killed a U.S. service member and wounded another.

A group called the Political Leadership of Kurdistan has been formed to communicate with Baghdad post-referendum. Meanwhile, Kurdish leaders welcomed a call by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for peaceful talks. An initiative launched by former Prime Minister Ayad...

The number of fatalities in Iraq during September surpassed those in August.

A Turkish soldier was among the dead after a battle with P.K.K. guerrillas in northern Iraq.

Clean-up operations in Shirqat left dozens of militants dead.

Militants staged an attack on Ramadi which was liberated last year.

Barzani downplayed the threat of sanctions by declaring that any new sanctions can’t be worse than what has already been done to the Kurds.