War Against Isis

UN agencies on Friday called for two seven-day breaks in the fighting in Gaza to vaccinate more than 640,000 children against polio, which has been detected in the wastewater.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen thanked his India counterpart S Jaishankar for supporting Israel's war against Hamas, saying, the "war against a despicable terrorist organisation that is worst than ISIS".

An Indian national, trained by ISIS in Iraq in 2015, was found guilty by a court in Kochi on Friday for hatching a criminal conspiracy to wage war against the Governments of India and Iraq.

German prosecutors on Friday announced war crimes charges against a female member of the ISIS group who let a five-year-old girl die of thirst in the scorching sun.

The order has been signed for the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, where they have been deployed to assist in the war against ISIS, a US military spokesperson said on Sunday.

The Islamic State is creeping back into parts of central Iraq just seven months after the government declared victory in the war against the group, embarking on a wave of kidnappings, assassinations and bombings that have raised fears a new cycle of insurgency is starting again.

Iraq needs $88.2 billion to rebuild after years of war against ISIS, Planning Minister Salman al-Jumaili said Monday, as an international conference on the country's reconstruction opened in Kuwait.

US President Donald Trump will warn that much more work remains in the war against ISIS when he delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Iraq's armed forces held a military parade in Baghdad on Sunday to celebrate the victory announced by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi over the ISIS group.

Iraq's prime minister declared an end Saturday to the war against the ISIS, more than three years after militants overran and captured one-third of the country and imposed a violent and austere rule over millions of Iraqis.

Islamic State is making a last stand in Iraq and Syria. But the region will not rest with the group's defeat, and is gearing up for a war for influence among the regional and international players that were drawn into conflict with the radical militants.

Thousands of Iraqi troops were locked in an armed standoff with Kurdish forces in the disputed oil-rich province of Kirkuk as Washington scrambled to avert fighting between its allies in the war against the ISIS group.

Syrian government forces and their allies have recaptured territory from ISIS in countryside southeast of its stronghold Raqqa after air strikes in the area, a pro-Damascus military media unit and war monitors reported.

They all say they are back from "hell". Quivering and emaciated, the civilians emerging from Mosul's Old City have survived famine but often lost relatives and sometimes their sanity.

Iraqi forces pressed forward with an offensive against terrorist-held areas of Mosul as the United Nations warned of grave danger to civilians in the final stages of the battle.

UN agencies on Friday called for two seven-day breaks in the fighting in Gaza to vaccinate more than 640,000 children against polio, which has been detected in the wastewater.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen thanked his India counterpart S Jaishankar for supporting Israel's war against Hamas, saying, the "war against a despicable terrorist organisation that is worst than ISIS".

An Indian national, trained by ISIS in Iraq in 2015, was found guilty by a court in Kochi on Friday for hatching a criminal conspiracy to wage war against the Governments of India and Iraq.

German prosecutors on Friday announced war crimes charges against a female member of the ISIS group who let a five-year-old girl die of thirst in the scorching sun.

The order has been signed for the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, where they have been deployed to assist in the war against ISIS, a US military spokesperson said on Sunday.

The Islamic State is creeping back into parts of central Iraq just seven months after the government declared victory in the war against the group, embarking on a wave of kidnappings, assassinations and bombings that have raised fears a new cycle of insurgency is starting again.

Iraq needs $88.2 billion to rebuild after years of war against ISIS, Planning Minister Salman al-Jumaili said Monday, as an international conference on the country's reconstruction opened in Kuwait.

US President Donald Trump will warn that much more work remains in the war against ISIS when he delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Iraq's armed forces held a military parade in Baghdad on Sunday to celebrate the victory announced by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi over the ISIS group.

Iraq's prime minister declared an end Saturday to the war against the ISIS, more than three years after militants overran and captured one-third of the country and imposed a violent and austere rule over millions of Iraqis.

Islamic State is making a last stand in Iraq and Syria. But the region will not rest with the group's defeat, and is gearing up for a war for influence among the regional and international players that were drawn into conflict with the radical militants.

Thousands of Iraqi troops were locked in an armed standoff with Kurdish forces in the disputed oil-rich province of Kirkuk as Washington scrambled to avert fighting between its allies in the war against the ISIS group.

Syrian government forces and their allies have recaptured territory from ISIS in countryside southeast of its stronghold Raqqa after air strikes in the area, a pro-Damascus military media unit and war monitors reported.

They all say they are back from "hell". Quivering and emaciated, the civilians emerging from Mosul's Old City have survived famine but often lost relatives and sometimes their sanity.

Iraqi forces pressed forward with an offensive against terrorist-held areas of Mosul as the United Nations warned of grave danger to civilians in the final stages of the battle.