Iraqi soldiers

Islamic State beheads 15 Iraqi soldiers in Mosul

 Islamic State jihadists have publicly beheaded 15 Iraqi soldiers in central Mosul and paraded their corpses along the embattled city's major thoroughfares, local news site Ara News reported on Wednesday.

Nov 24, 2016, 06:37 AM IST

Iraq executions carried out without proper trial, fuelled by vengeance: UN

Thirty-six men hanged in Iraq for a sectarian mass killing of soldiers were denied a proper legal defence at their trials and the executions appeared to have been "fuelled by vengeance", the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Aug 23, 2016, 23:24 PM IST

Rockets near Baghdad airport kill soldiers, Iranian refugees

A barrage of rockets slammed late Thursday into a former military base near the Baghdad International Airport that houses an Iranian refugee group, killing three Iraqi soldiers, officials said.

Oct 30, 2015, 01:55 AM IST