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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk, has declared that Israel is denying Palestine’s right to...

The Isis jihadist group has completely destroyed a 1,400-year-old Christian monastery in Iraq, the oldest of its kind in the country.

Up to 400 abducted Yazidi children are reportedly being trained as potential suicide bombers by Isis.

ISIS Carnage in Iraq Leaves 19,000 Dead, 3.2 Million Displaced in Unprecedented Violence Since 2014

Daesh (ISIS) takfiri terrorists have beheaded an Iranian military adviser in Syria, two days after capturing him near the Iraqi border.

Marking three years since the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) attacked the Yazidis in Syria, a United Nations-mandated inquiry has called for justice and rescue plans.

As heavy fighting continues to drive large numbers of people from Mosul, the United Nations refugee agency appealed for urgent support to meet the critical needs of vulnerable children, women and...

The United Nations health agency has delivered medical supplies to parts of eastern Mosul, the Iraqi city liberated from the Islamic State (ISIL), where clinics are receiving an influx of people in...

The United Nations refugee agency and its partners are coordinating plans to respond to a potential mass displacement of Iraqis from western Mosul, the latest battleground the Iraqi forces are...

The United Nations condemned the deadly terrorist attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, for which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) has claimed responsibility.

Using satellite imagery and local researches, the most recent evaluation confirms that western Mosul has undergone extensive destruction, “far greater than in the east,” according to a senior...

With military operations to retake western Mosul starting, United Nations humanitarian agencies in Iraq are rushing to prepare for the humanitarian impact of the fighting amid grave concerns that...

ISIS has routinely carried out devastating attacks that appear designed to inflict maximum death and suffering on ordinary Iraqis. The Iraqi and international strategy against ISIS should not...

More than 1,000 civilians were killed or injured last month in Iraq, the United Nations mission in the country has announced.

As mass graves and further evidence of sexual exploitation, torture and killings, and human rights abuses committed by ISIL/Da'esh extremists in Iraq come to light, the top United Nations human...

Some 15,000 children have over the previous week fled the western section of Iraq’s Mosul city where fighting between the Government forces and terrorists is intensifying, the United Nations...

More than 13,000 people have fled Mosul in just five days since 29 December, as the second phase of military operations to retake the Iraqi city from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...

Decades of conflict and under-investment have placed a huge strain on Iraq's healthcare system – with pregnant women and their babies paying for it with their lives, according to three United...

Children have the power to bring Iraq out of conflicts and into a peaceful future, the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has strongly criticized acts of fearmongering against Iran, describing it as a misleading factor that prompted the West to tolerate Wahhabism.