Friday, 8 August, 2014 , 13:40 AFP — The Foreign Office on Friday urged Britons in the Arbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dohuk provinces of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region to "leave now" following attacks by extremists.

Friday, 8 August, 2014 , 13:32 AFP —

Thursday, 7 August, 2014 , 22:36 AFP — A spokesman for the Kurdish peshmerga force said US warplanes on Thursday bombed Islamic State jihadist targets in two areas of northern Iraq.

Thursday, 7 August, 2014 , 22:15 AFP — A spokesman for the Kurdish peshmerga force said US warplanes on Thursday bombed Islamic State jihadist targets in two areas of northern Iraq.

Thursday, 7 August, 2014 , 16:59 AFP — French President Francois Hollande on Thursday pledged his country's "support" to forces battling Islamist militants in Iraq amid growing Western concern over an advance by Islamic State fighters.

Thursday, 7 August, 2014 , 16:36 AFP — French President Francois Hollande on Thursday pledged his country's "support" to forces battling Islamist militants in Iraq amid growing Western concern over an advance by Islamic State fighters.

Thursday, 7 August, 2014 , 15:30 AFP — Several Yazidi families who had been hiding from jihadists on a northern Iraqi mountain have used a safe passage provided by Turkish Kurdish fighters to reach Syria, a spokesman said.

Thursday, 7 August, 2014 , 10:25 AFP — Kurdish peshmerga forces protecting the Mosul dam, said to be Iraq's largest, repelled a jihadist attack on Thursday, a spokesman said.

Thursday, 7 August, 2014 , 07:58 AFP — Jihadists took over Iraq's largest Christian town Qaraqosh and surrounding areas on Thursday and sent tens of thousands of panicked residents fleeing towards autonomous Kurdistan, officials and witnesses said.

Thursday, 7 August, 2014 , 07:39 AFP — The jihadist takeover of a large area of northern Iraq, home to much of its Christian population, forced tens of thousands of people to flee Thursday, a top Christian cleric said.