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The article reports on attack of the Islamic State militants on shopping mall in eastern Baghdad, Iraq on January 11, 2016 along with helicopters hovering overhead and mentions that the attack killed and injured several people which included members of security forces.

The article offers world news briefs as of 2015 which include permission given to jailed reporter Jason Rezaian for an extended visit with his wife and mother, earthquake in Pakistan and Afghanistan and creation of new states in South Sudan which led to protests from the opposition.

The article reports that group of rival fighter of Iraq Kurdish has retook the northern Iraqi city of Sinjar from militant group Islamic State with the help of the U. S. Air Force and without Iraqi military forces and offers views of Iraqi Kurdish government's president Masoud Barzani on the same.

The article reports on the chaotic situation in Iraq which has been caused by rising temperature and shortage of electricity.

The article offers world news briefs as of July 18, 2015 including the death of people in a suicide car bombing in eastern Iraq, the fighting between insurgents and soldiers in a Chadian village on the banks of Lake Chad and the arrest of two top officials of Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Pakistan.

The article focuses on Talha Asmal, a high school student from West Yorkshire, England, who traveled to Syria to join the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) and was reported one of the bombers at a suicide bombing outside the northern town of Baiji in Syria on June 13, 2015.

The article reports that the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group has conquered the main Iraqi government compound in Ramadi, Iraq through suicide attacks and massacres on May 14, 2015.

The article focuses on the sectarian and tribal tensions faced by people in Tikrit, Iraq after a success of their battle to win back against the militant group, Islamic State (ISIS).

The article offers information on the worsening of Iraqi humanitarian crisis, as manifested by the migration of thousands of residents from militant group Islamic State, in Anbar, Iraq.

The article focuses on the discovery and digging of mass graves by Iraqi soldiers in Tikrit, Iraq to search for the remains of Iraqi air force cadets, who were killed by the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) in June 2014.

The article reports on the seizure of the large parts of Tikrit, Iraq by government forces and allied Shiite militias on March 10, 2015 amid reports that most militants of terrorist group Islamic State battling in the area had begun retreating.

The article reports that the Iraqi archaeological sites such as Assyrian city of Nimrud and the Hatra has been destroyed by the Islamic State militants.

The article reports that Iraqi forces against terorrist group Islamic State in Iqaq and e Levant (ISIS) came closer to the city of Tikrit on March 6, 2015.

The article reports on the attack of the ancient archaeological site of Nimrud in northern Iraq by the militant group Islamic State (ISIS) in February 2015 and damage the ancient structure with heavy vehicles.

The article reports on the plan of the Sunni lawmakers of Iraq to boycott the sessions of the Iraqi Parliament aimed to pressure the government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to control the influence of Shiite militias.

The article reports on the lifting of curfew in Baghdad, Iraq on February 1, 2015.

The article reports on a surprised terrorist attack launched by the Islamic State terrorist group in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraq, which killed at least 25 Kurdish people including senior Kurdish commander Shirko Fatih.

The article reports on the gathering of Sunni women including Awatif al-Azawy, Tawfika Abbas, and Entisar Gannos in Baghdad, Iraq in search of answers about their men, who were imprisoned for years.

The article focuses on the problem faced by the Christians living in Qaraqosh, Iraq where terrorist group Islamic State is killing them.

The article reports on the use of a double-pronged strategy by the jihadists to gain the obedience of Sunni tribes in the rapid consolidation of the Islamic State of the Sunni parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014.

The article focuses on the claim of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi about the removal of 36 military commanders and installation of 18 others as part of a shake-up to the Iraqi Army to address corruption and promote professionalism on November 12, 2014.

The article reports on the struggle of the Iraqi government forces and Sunni tribal fighters against Islamic State militants in Baghdad, Iraq.

The article reports on the conviction of the Blackwater security contractors who had killed and leave wounded victims due to shootings and opened fire between the Blackwater security and the American troop at the Nisour Square in Baghdad, Iraq.

The article reports on the criticism received by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq from his own party and the Shiite bloc it leads, along with his effort in helping the country to push back the jihadist insurgents of the Islamic State.

The article reports that the Kurdish fighters have seized control of a border crossing with Syria following their offensive moves against the Sunni jihadist extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in some parts of northern Iraq on September 30, 2014.

The article focuses on the criticisms of the citizens of Karada district in Baghdad, Iraq on former Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and the Shiite-led government due to their failure to uphold impartial justice and public security in the district that led to attacks of the Islamic State.

The article offers information on the history of the creed of the extremist group Islamic State in Baghdad, Iraq.

The article reports that dozens of Sunni worshippers were killed at a rural mosque in Central Iraq during a militant raid on August 22, 2014.

The article reports on the invasion of Sunni extremists in northern Iraq on August 3, 2014.

The article reports on the tears and angers of residents of Mosul, Iraq when the Sunni extremists destroyed the grave site of the biblical prophet Jonah, whose story was featured in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism traditions, in July 2014.

The article reports that Baghdad, Iraq's provincial council president Riyadh al-Adhadh, along with his bodyguards, has been freed on July 26, 2014.

The article reports that Muslims and Iraqi Christians in Mosul, Iraq have gathered together under the same roof on July 20, 2014 after Christians were forced by militants to leave the city.

The article reports that the active jihadist militant group in Iraq and Syria Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has ordered to expel the Iraqi Christians in Mosul, Iraq following the decision of Christians on not to attend the ISIS meeting.

BAGHDAD -- In making the optimistic case for the development of democracy here, American officials typically point to the 2010 parliamentary elections, which were judged largely free and fair by international monitors including the United Nations. But with the arrest of the head of Iraq's election commission, the prospect for fair elections has been thrown into question. Faraj al-Haidari, chief of the Independent High Electoral Commission, spent most of the weekend in a jail cell after being arrested on corruption charges on Thursday. He was released on Sunday afternoon after posting bail of $12,500. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

TENNA, Iraq -- Iraq's dwindling Christians, driven from their homes by attacks and intimidation, are beginning to abandon the havens they had found in the country's north, discouraged by unemployment and a creeping fear that the violence they had fled was catching up to them. Their quiet exodus to Turkey, Jordan, Europe and the United States is the latest chapter of a seemingly inexorable decline that many religious leaders say tolls the twilight of Christianity in a land where city skylines have long been marked by both minarets and church steeples. Recent assessments say that Iraq's Christian population has now fallen by more than half since the 2003 American invasion, and with the military's departure, some Christians say they lost a protector of last resort. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

QAMISHLI, Iraq -- Inside a muddy village named for a failed revolt against Syrian authorities, a history of flight and exile is repeating itself. Over the past few months, scores of Kurds have begun fleeing into Iraqi Kurdistan, escaping security forces and the violence that is threatening to sweep Kurds from the sidelines of Syria's uprising into its main currents. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BAGHDAD -- A panel of Iraqi judges said Thursday that death squads commanded by Iraq's Sunni vice president carried out 150 attacks over six years against religious pilgrims, security officers and political foes. In a report offering details of their investigation into the politically divisive case, the nine judges, drawn from all of Iraq's main ethnic and religious factions, appeared to offer support to terrorism charges leveled by the Iraqi authorities in December against Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi. Mr. Hashimi, a Sunni Muslim, has said that he is innocent and that the allegations are part of a political vendetta by Iraq's Shiite-led government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ERBIL, Iraq -- For the Kurds here in this ancient city, the rewards of war are numerous and obvious. Construction cranes rise from the cityscape. Highway medians are green with shrubbery. A glittering shopping mall with an indoor ice skating rink stands as a totem of American-style consumerism. The only blast walls in sight are those that protect the regional parliament, decorated by sunflowers painted in muted shades of yellow. Among Iraqis, the Kurds benefited the most from the war, and now may have the most to lose if the political chaos that followed the departure of American forces metastasizes into civil war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BAQUBA, Iraq -- The governor has fled this uneasy city. Half the members of the provincial council are camped out in northern Iraq, afraid to return to their offices. Peaceful protesters fill the dusty streets, though just days ago angrier crowds blockaded the highways with burning tires and shattered glass. All of this because the local government here in northeastern Diyala Province recently dared to raise a simple but explosive question, one that is central to the unrest now surging through Iraq's shaky democracy: Should a post-American Iraq exist as one unified nation, or will it split into a loose confederation of islands unto themselves? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BAGHDAD -- Ali al-Subiahi returned from his family's self-imposed exile in the United States to reclaim a sense of himself in a new Iraq. At 26, he runs a string of private schools in Baghdad, bankrolled by his earnings as an interpreter for the United States military. He has adapted, showing what he considers an American entrepreneurial flair, advertising for his schools on blast walls left from the bloodiest days of the war. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BAGHDAD -- Bombs exploding in and around Baghdad on Saturday shattered the stillness of a crystalline autumn day in the desert as violence continued during the American military withdrawal from Iraq. By early evening, the death toll had risen to at least 11 from explosions on a highway to the west and in a market for secondhand clothes in the city's center, witnesses and government officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BAGHDAD -- When Tripoli, the Libyan capital, fell, rebel fighters found secret intelligence documents linking Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to a plot by former members of Saddam Hussein's military and Baath Party to overthrow the Iraqi government, according to an Iraqi official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The details of the plot were revealed to Iraq's prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, this month in a surprise visit to Baghdad by Libya's interim leader, Mahmoud Jibril, said the official, who demanded anonymity because the matter was supposed to be confidential. This week, Iraqi security forces responded, arresting more than 200 suspects in connection with the plot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BAGHDAD -- Iraq has been so inured by years of war, terrorism and sectarian strife that what would be a horrific crime of shocking proportions in most countries has gone barely noticed here. Several days ago, a mass grave was unearthed in Dujail, a town about 35 miles north of Baghdad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BAGHDAD -- Violence erupted north of Baghdad on Friday as a suicide bomber attacked at a mosque, and then several hours later another suicide bomber attacked the hospital where the wounded were being treated. Nineteen people died in the attacks, which occurred in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein. Among the dead were the mosque's imam and several local government officials, a local security official said. At least 49 people were wounded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BAGHDAD -- There haven't been any Saddam sightings, yet. But he is still in the house, some Iraqis believe, and was heard from just this week. Saddam Hussein would have turned 74 on Thursday, and a steady stream of people visited his grave site near his hometown, Tikrit, passing out sweets to fellow mourners and curiosity seekers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BAGHDAD -- When he returned to his native Kurdistan in February to join the flickering of a protest movement, Dr. Pishtewan Abdellah, a hematologist who lives in Australia but also carries an Iraqi passport, suspected that the demonstrators might face harsh treatment from the Kurdish authorities. At several protests during the last two months security forces have opened fire, and an estimated 10 people have been killed and dozens wounded, according to human rights activists. What Dr. Abdellah did not anticipate, though, was a barrage of one of this country's more peculiar menaces: death threats by text message. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Friday reopened the criminal case against four former American military contractors accused of manslaughter in connection with a shooting that killed at least 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007. Criminal charges against the former employees of Blackwater Worldwide had been dismissed in December 2009 by a federal judge in Washington, who criticized the Justice Department for its handling of the case and ruled that prosecutors had relied on tainted evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces controlled directly by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki continue to hold and to torture detainees in secret jails despite his vows last year to end such practices, according to a statement from Human Rights Watch released Tuesday. The statement renewed longstanding criticism of Mr. Maliki that he has violated the Constitution by having some security forces in charge of pursuing terrorists report directly to his office. About 280 detainees are being held at Camp Justice, a military base in northern Baghdad, with no access to lawyers or their families, according to the report. They are being held by brigades that are supposed to report to the Defense Ministry, it said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BALAD RUZ, Iraq -- As the suicide bomber clutched the detonator to his explosive belt, preparing to spray fire and shrapnel into a religious procession here, an Iraqi police officer named Bilal Ali Muhammad faced a choice between his own life and something larger. If he ran and took cover, Mr. Muhammad, 31, had a chance to save himself, to continue supporting his widowed mother, to help put his younger brother through college and to watch his three young daughters grow up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's highest court on Sunday ordered Parliament, elected in March and convened only once for 18 minutes, to resume its sessions, adding another wrinkle to a lengthy crisis that has tested the country's institutions and unsettled its people. The Federal Supreme Court called the delay unconstitutional, and the acting speaker promised to convene Parliament again within days. But the decision seemed more procedural than decisive, and perhaps set the stage for another constitutional crisis. Parliament has gone unattended as Iraq's most powerful blocs have tried for seven months to negotiate an agreement on the government's top posts. They still seem weeks, even months, from a deal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]