The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Monday that security forces had arrested 23 members of ISIS, including a senior leader, in Mosul city. “Nineveh police forces arrested 23 IS fighters, including a senior commander who was responsible for collecting Zakat from residents in southern Mosul,” Iraqi website Baghdad Today quoted…

More than a dozen members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have been killed when Iraqi Air Force fighter jets carried out a string of airstrikes against militant hideouts in the country’s eastern province of Diyala. Lieutenant General Mezhir al-Azzawi, provincial commander of security forces, said the Iraqi aircraft bombarded…

Iraqi police say around 250 people have gathered at the main entrance to a major oilfield near the Iraqi city of Basra for a second week to protest alleged government corruption and poor public services in southern cities. Production operations at the Zubair oilfield, which is run by Italy’s Eni,…

The Iraqi Heath Ministry says eight demonstrators have so far lost their lives in protests over poor public services and alleged corruption in various southern cities in the Arab country since daily protests began in Iraq's Basra port city a week ago.