Syria Kerry says ISIL has been damaged by US-led coalition but battle may take 'years' The US-led coalition fighting ISIL has inflicted serious damage on the extremists, carrying out around 1,000 airstrikes so far in Syria and Iraq 03/12/2014
Iraq Confusion over claims Iranian jets are attacking ISIL in Iraq Despite US claims co-ordination with Iran in Iraq would be "inappropriate", and Iran ruling out American influence in Iraq post-ISIL, Iranian F4 jets have reportedly bombed ISIL in Iraq 03/12/2014
Lebanon Lebanon detains wife and child of ISIL leader Baghdadi Lebanese authorities are said to be questioning a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after she and a child of the ISIL leader were detained near the Syrian border. 02/12/2014
Iraq Iraq's defence minister holds talks with Yazidi Iraq has been holding talks with a Yazidi community delegation as Kurdish forces prepare a mountain offensive against Islamic State 24/11/2014
Iraq Airstrikes continue while Muslim parents worry at ISIL propaganda on home front Local Iraqi medical sources say the latest airstrikes in Mosul against ISIL have killed a top commander, Radwan Taleb al-Hamdouni. He governed the 21/11/2014
Iraq US announces deployment of extra troops to train Iraq forces The Pentagon says the first of the 1,500 extra American troops due to advise and train Iraqi forces will be deployed in the next few weeks. They 21/11/2014
France Shock in France after new revelations of French jihadists in Syria A video released by ISIL fighters purportedly showing them burning their French passports has provoked much discussion in the French media. On 20/11/2014
France French ISIL militants urge fellow Muslims to launch attacks back home Three French members of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have appeared on a new militant propaganda video. The men are seen burning 20/11/2014
Iraq Deadly suicide bomb attack in the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region A suicide bomb attack has ripped through the centre of Irbil. At least five people were killed in the blast when the car packed with explosives blew 19/11/2014
the global conversation What will you ask US Senator John McCain? Vietnam veteran John McCain began his career in the US army and survived five brutal years as a prisoner of war, years after his release he moved 19/11/2014
Iraq ISIL: 'Strong possibility' that French jihadist features in Peter Kassig execution video There is a very strong likelihood that a 22-year-old French citizen, who left France to go to Syria in August 2013, appears in the ISIL video of the 17/11/2014
USA Washington sees progress in fight against ISIL but predicts long campaign The US government has voiced cautious optimism in the fight against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that 13/11/2014
World Christians flee ISIL menace to Kurdistan, perhaps permanent exiles The yard of Mar Eliya Church in the city of Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan has been converted into a camp for Christians, more than 200 families who 07/11/2014
USA US says ISIL makes $1 million-a-day selling oil – even to enemies The US government is intensifying efforts to undermine the finances of ISIL, vowing to crack down on the islamic militant group’s black market oil 23/10/2014
World Kurdistan asks West to sustain, expand support to fight ISIL For months, only the Kurds have been fighting Islamic State radicals (ISIL) on the ground, first in Iraq, also in Syria, notably in Kobani. Without 22/10/2014
World Christians of Iraq backed strongly from France Offering support and sanctuary to Iraqi Christians, the Archbishop of Lyon has launched a solidarity initiative twinning the French city with Iraq’s 08/10/2014
Syria How nasheeds became the soundtrack of jihad In public meetings or online propaganda videos, Islamist hymns, known as anasheed jihadiya or simply nasheeds, have become inseparable from the image 08/10/2014
World The dangers of extremism for Iraq and the wider world The conflict in Iraq is increasingly threatening to export trained terrorists to other countries in the region, and to the West. Iraqi civilians 23/06/2014
