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The 2024 election will see a lengthy list of independent candidates standing against Labour politicians in protest against its position on Gaza.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was ‘religious but not extremist’ but changed after detention in Camp Bucca, Umm Hudaifa claims

When the Islamic State group rampaged through Iraq's ancient city of Mosul a decade ago, the jihadists killed thousands, upended countless more lives and left deep scars among the survivors.

Turkey's defense minister says plans by U.S.-backed Kurdish groups to hold local elections in northern Syria are “unacceptable" and a threat to Turkey's national security

U.N. Security Council votes to end U.N. mission in Iraq by 2025, supporting Iraq's stability and sovereignty.

UN Security Council votes to end UN mission in Iraq, extending UNAMI mandate until 2025 to support Iraq's stability and security.

Five years after the fall of the so-called Islamic State caliphate in Iraq and Syria, the EU's anti-terrorism coordinator sees a more diffuse threat, coming from many different directions and spreading online. This is what Bartjan Wegter calls "mutant jihadism". With FRANCE 24's Armen Georgian, he discusses Afghanistan, IS-KP (Islamic…

At the request of Baghdad, the UN Security Council unanimously decided Friday that the United Nations political mission in Iraq will leave the country at the end of 2025 after more than 20 years.

NGOs report that 200,000 are displaced in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, while thousands trapped in legal limbo in Europe.