Thursday, 16 June, 2022 , 07:58 AFP — US coalition forces said they captured a senior Islamic State group bomb maker in an airborne operation before dawn Thursday in northern Syria.

Thursday, 16 June, 2022 , 03:34 AFP — A senior official from the so-called Islamic State group was captured in a raid in Syria on Thursday, the US-led coalition fighting the militants said.

Wednesday, 15 June, 2022 , 14:20 AFP — A child was killed on Wednesday in an air strike on Iraq's northern region of Sinjar, security sources said, blaming the Turkish air force.

Wednesday, 15 June, 2022 , 11:07 AFP — Turkey said on Wednesday that it was waiting for a "written response" from Sweden and Finland to Ankara's objections to their NATO bids.

Wednesday, 15 June, 2022 , 02:04 AFP — Noura al-Khalif married an Islamic State group supporter and then wound up without her husband in a Syrian camp viewed by many as the last surviving pocket of the "caliphate".

Tuesday, 14 June, 2022 , 16:05 AFP — Finland's Prime Minister said Tuesday that Finland's and Sweden's NATO applications could stall if an agreement with Turkey, which is currently blocking their bids, is not reached before a summit this month.

Monday, 13 June, 2022 , 15:28 AFP — Sweden is safer now than before it applied for NATO membership, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday, even though it is in a grey zone with its application stalled by Turkey.

Monday, 13 June, 2022 , 15:28 AFP — Iraq, an oil-rich but poverty-stricken country battered by decades of war and insurgency, has been mired in a long political crisis that just took a turn for the worse.

Sunday, 12 June, 2022 , 20:28 AFP — Iraqi lawmakers from firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's bloc resigned Sunday, the parliamentary speaker said, in a move ostensibly designed to up pressure to end an eight-month political paralysis.

Sunday, 12 June, 2022 , 19:10 AFP — Iraqi lawmakers from firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's bloc resigned Sunday, the parliamentary speaker said, in a move designed to up pressure to end an eight-month political paralysis.