U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump calls the deal with Iran one of the 'dumbest' he's ever seen.

Iraq has hanged 36 people for their involvement in a massacre in Tikrit province two years ago. Up to 1,700 mostly Shia military recruits were killed on June 12, 2014.

Iraqi forces have recaptured four villages from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group near its stronghold of Mosul.

Mark Halperin and John Heilemann discuss the dispute between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Khizr and Ghazala Khan, parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart after he was killed in Iraq in 2004.

Iraq's Popular Mobilisation forces (PMF), known as Hashid Shaabi, and Iraqi forces are making advancements in the western province of Anbar against radical groups in the country.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rejected criticism from the father of a soldier killed in Iraq who said the Republican presidential nominee had 'sacrificed nothing and no one.

Violence in the south of the city of Mosul is forcing civilians from their homes, adding to the nearly three and a half million Iraqis who are internally displaced.

French president Francois Hollande says the two armed men who took hostages at a church had claimed allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has confirmed that its senior operative Abu Omar al-Shishani has been killed just south of Mosul.

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called Iraq, 'Harvard for terrorism' on Tuesday at a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Iraqi government forces have been involved in intense fighting to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group out of Fallujah in Anbar province.

At least 11 Libyan fighters have been killed in battles with fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) near the city of Sirte. Forces loyal to the government in Tripoli say they are making gains but ISIL denies it is losing ground.