Iraqi Police Forces

At least a dozen missiles were fired on Saturday at a military base used by US-led coalition forces in western Iraq, a US defence source and Iraqi police told AFP.

The SWAT team of Iraqi forces recently scored a "big" catch in the city of Mosul when they arrested an obese ISIS cleric who has been dubbed as "Jabba the Jihadi" on social media.

Iraqi forces on Thursday regained control over Imam Gharbi, a village south of Mosul, from ISIS terrorists who had seized it as their defence of their stronghold in the city crumbled, Iraqi police said.

Iraqi forces in Mosul have freed an 11-year-old Yazidi girl who was kidnapped and sold as a slave by the ISIS group in 2014, the federal police said Friday.

Two car bombs in Baghdad claimed by ISIS killed at least 14 people on Thursday, police and medics said, part of a surge in violence across the capital at a time when US-backed Iraqi forces are trying to drive the militants from Mosul in the north.

Terrorist gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a police station in the Iraqi city of Samarra Monday, sparking clashes with the security forces, officials said.

The scene was hardly conducive to romance: she was a sick Iraqi in a wave of refugees trying to enter Serbia, while he belonged to the stern Macedonian police force keeping guard.

Iraqi military and police forces said Monday that they have uncovered a mass grave in a small town south of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul. Initial reports say 100 bodies were found, many of them decapitated.

Iraqi police forces said they found a mass grave at the agricultural college in an area that was recaptured from the ISIS group on Monday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed Monday that only army and police forces would enter Mosul as he announced the start of operations to retake the jihadist-held city.

Iraqi forces have detained more than 500 suspected Islamic State group members trying to sneak out of the city of Fallujah by blending in with fleeing civilians, police said Monday.

At least 12 people were killed on Saturday in two separate car bomb attacks in Baghdad targeting security forces, police sources said.

A Jordanian police officer shot and killed two Americans today at a US-funded facility for training Iraqi and Palestinian security forces, before committing suicide, a security source said.

Iraqi security forces and Sunni tribal fighters launched an offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants near the western outpost of Haditha in a bid to secure a key supply route to an important military base, police and tribal sources said.

Iraqi officials voiced fears today that jihadists will use their seizure of a dam in Ramadi to mount fresh attacks on pro-government forces preparing to try to retake the city.

At least a dozen missiles were fired on Saturday at a military base used by US-led coalition forces in western Iraq, a US defence source and Iraqi police told AFP.

The SWAT team of Iraqi forces recently scored a "big" catch in the city of Mosul when they arrested an obese ISIS cleric who has been dubbed as "Jabba the Jihadi" on social media.

Iraqi forces on Thursday regained control over Imam Gharbi, a village south of Mosul, from ISIS terrorists who had seized it as their defence of their stronghold in the city crumbled, Iraqi police said.

Iraqi forces in Mosul have freed an 11-year-old Yazidi girl who was kidnapped and sold as a slave by the ISIS group in 2014, the federal police said Friday.

Two car bombs in Baghdad claimed by ISIS killed at least 14 people on Thursday, police and medics said, part of a surge in violence across the capital at a time when US-backed Iraqi forces are trying to drive the militants from Mosul in the north.

Terrorist gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a police station in the Iraqi city of Samarra Monday, sparking clashes with the security forces, officials said.

The scene was hardly conducive to romance: she was a sick Iraqi in a wave of refugees trying to enter Serbia, while he belonged to the stern Macedonian police force keeping guard.

Iraqi military and police forces said Monday that they have uncovered a mass grave in a small town south of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul. Initial reports say 100 bodies were found, many of them decapitated.

Iraqi police forces said they found a mass grave at the agricultural college in an area that was recaptured from the ISIS group on Monday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed Monday that only army and police forces would enter Mosul as he announced the start of operations to retake the jihadist-held city.

Iraqi forces have detained more than 500 suspected Islamic State group members trying to sneak out of the city of Fallujah by blending in with fleeing civilians, police said Monday.

At least 12 people were killed on Saturday in two separate car bomb attacks in Baghdad targeting security forces, police sources said.

A Jordanian police officer shot and killed two Americans today at a US-funded facility for training Iraqi and Palestinian security forces, before committing suicide, a security source said.

Iraqi security forces and Sunni tribal fighters launched an offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants near the western outpost of Haditha in a bid to secure a key supply route to an important military base, police and tribal sources said.

Iraqi officials voiced fears today that jihadists will use their seizure of a dam in Ramadi to mount fresh attacks on pro-government forces preparing to try to retake the city.