Now playing Next Jordan Jordan intensifies air strikes on key ISIL bases The UAE reportedly sends a squadron of fighter jets to assist Jordan as it intensifies air strikes on ISIL strongholds in Iraq and Syria. 09/02/2015
Now playing Next Iraq Baghdad lifts 10-year nighttime curfew Residents of the Iraqi capital Baghdad seemed pleased ten years of nighttime curfew are over. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the decision 08/02/2015
Now playing Next Iraq Scores dead in three seperate Baghdad bomb blasts At least 34 people have been killed and scores injured in three seperate bomb attacks in Baghdad. The first blast claimed 22 lives and injured 50 07/02/2015
Now playing Next Iraq Fatal bomb blasts cause carnage in Baghdad scores dead and injured At least 23 people have been killed and scores injured following two seperate bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The first bomb went off in 07/02/2015
Now playing Next Jordan Multiple Jordanian airstrikes 'destroy ISIL targets' in Syria Jordan claims to have hit several key ISIL-run bases following a number of air strikes over Syria. 05/02/2015
Now playing Next Jordan Jordan vows to avenge pilot's brutal execution The widow of Mouath al-Kasaesbeh had waited in dread for more than a month to learn her husband’s fate. The Jordanian Air Force pilot was captured by 05/02/2015
Now playing Next Iraq UN report accuses ISIL of torturing and killing children in Iraq The jihadists known as ISIL are abusing and killing children in Iraq in ways which amount to systematic war crimes. According to a report by the 05/02/2015
Now playing Next Jordan Jordan vows to defeat evil after horrific death of captured pilot King Abdullah has vowed to step up his country’s fight against ISIL and wage a relentless war ‘to protect Jordan’s values and human principles.’ His 05/02/2015
Now playing Next Jordan Jordan executes two militants in response to the brutal killing of one of its pilots by ISIL Jordan has executed two convicted militants in response to the brutal killing of one of their pilots who had been held captive by Islamist 04/02/2015
Now playing Next Jordan Jordan promises revenge for ISIL's brutal murder of captive pilot Jordan has reacted with fury at the brutal killing of one of its pilots at the hands of Islamist extremists and promised an “earth-shaking” response 04/02/2015
Now playing Next Iraq New offensive against ISIL militants in numerous towns in Iraq Kurdish peshmerga fighters backed by coalition air strikes have driven ISIL militants out of a village south of Kirkuk in Iraq. This is part of a new 03/02/2015
Now playing Next Iraq ISIL militants attack Kurdish forces near Kirkuk ISIL militants have killed a senior Kurdish commander and five other fighters after launching a major offensive in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk 30/01/2015
Now playing Next Iraq Baghdad double bombing kills 12 At least 12 people are dead and dozens wounded after a double bombing in downtown Baghdad. A suicide blast at a busy market near a bus station was 30/01/2015
Now playing Next United Kingdom The fight against ISIL: Kerry says coalition campaign is getting results The US Secretary of State says ISIL’s momentum in Iraq has been halted or reversed. John Kerry was speaking in London after a meeting of over 20 22/01/2015
Now playing Next United Kingdom Turning the tide against ISIL: US-led coalition holds key talks in London Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met British premier David Cameron on Thursday. The encounter came as foreign ministers from over 20 countries 22/01/2015
Now playing Next Iraq Islamic State militants demand $200 million ransom for Japanese hostages The militant Islamic State group is demanding $200 million from Japan to free two of its citizens. In a video posted online, a black-clad figure 20/01/2015
Now playing Next Iraq ISIL demands $200m for release of two Japanese captives The Islamic State armed group which issued a video online on Tuesday purporting to show two Japanese hostages. 20/01/2015
Now playing Next Iraq Yazidis freed by militant Islamic State At least 200 members of the Yazidi religious community in northern Iraq have been released. They had been held by the Islamic State militant group 18/01/2015
Now playing Next World "ISIL is the baby of George W Bush" German journalist and author Jürgen Todenhöfer is perhaps best known for supposedly being the first Westerner to have embedded with Islamic State 16/01/2015