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Mass grave of Islamic State victims found in Iraq’s Ramadi: police

RAMADI: Security forces found a mass grave in the Iraqi city of Ramadi containing the remains of at least 18 people killed by the Islamic State group, police said Tuesday.

ISIS suffers double blow as Ramadi falls, leaders killed

BAGHDAD: U.S.-led forces have killed 10 Islamic State leaders in air strikes, including individuals linked to the Paris attacks, a U.S. spokesman said, dealing a double blow to the militant group after Iraqi forces ousted it from the city of Ramadi.

Iraq forces sweep Ramadi after landmark victory over Islamic State

RAMADI, IRAQ: Iraqi forces swept the devastated streets of Ramadi for bombs Monday, after recapturing the city they lost in May and clinching a major victory against the Islamic State group.

Iraqi troops close in on Islamic State redoubt in Ramadi

BAGHDAD: Iraqi troops have pushed deeper into the heart of the last remaining district held by Islamic State in the city of Ramadi, despite being slowed by bombs and booby traps, army spokesmen said on Saturday.

Coalition planes pound ISIS in Iraq’s Ramadi to aid attack, TV says

BAGHDAD: Coalition air forces pounded positions held by Islamic State in Ramadi on Thursday, Iraqi military statements said, in support of government troops seeking to retake the western Iraqi city and push on to drive the militants from key population centers.

Iraq forces advance into centre of IS-held Ramadi: security official

BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces advanced Tuesday into the centre of Ramadi city, which has been under the control of Islamic State group jihadists since May, a security official said.

Suicide bomber kills six on Iraq-Saudi border: officials

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi position on the border with Saudi Arabia on Saturday, killing six guards, including a commander, officials said.

Pentagon mulls improving Iraqi troop training after fall of Ramadi

WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday Pentagon officials have begun to examine how the U.S. military could better equip and train Iraqi troops after the recent fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to Islamic State insurgents.

Islamic State says it has full control of Syria’s Palmyra

BEIRUT: Islamic State fighters tightened their grip on the historic Syrian city of Palmyra on Thursday and overran Iraqi government defenses east of Ramadi, the provincial capital that they seized five days earlier.

Islamic State tightens grip on captured Iraqi city

BAGHDAD: Islamic State fighters who overran Ramadi in a major defeat for the Iraqi government and its Western backers tightened their grip on the city, flying back flags on key buildings and setting free prisoners in a drive to win the support of local residents.

Shia forces move in on Iraqi city taken by Islamic State

BAGHDAD: Thousands of Shia militiamen on Monday prepared to fight Islamic State insurgents who seized the Iraqi provincial capital Ramadi at the weekend in the biggest defeat for government forces in nearly a year.

Shia militias converge on Iraq’s Ramadi after IS takeover

BAGHDAD: Shia militia groups converged on Ramadi Monday to help Iraqi security forces wrest the city back from Islamic State fighters who seized it in a deadly three-day blitz.

Iraqi forces fight to rout Islamic State militants from Ramadi

BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces fought to rout Islamic State militants from the western city of Ramadi on Wednesday, slowly regaining some ground from the militant group, security and local officials said.

Ramadi exodus compounds Iraq humanitarian crisis

BAGHDAD: Some pushed wheelbarrows piled high with their belongings across the only bridge to Baghdad. Others balanced battered suitcases on their heads, or held babies aloft so they would not be crushed in the exodus from Iraq's western province of Anbar.

IS kills at least 23 Iraqi tribesmen near Ramadi

BAGHDAD: The Islamic State jihadist group killed at least 23 tribesmen during a major attack in the Ramadi area, a tribal leader and a police officer said on Saturday.

Baghdad car bombs kill 60; militants storm Ramadi university

BAGHDAD: A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university campus in western Iraq,...

Gunmen occupy Iraqi university campus, take students hostage

RAMADI: Gunmen occupied a university in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Saturday, taking hundreds of students and their professors hostage inside the campus,...
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