CLAIM: A post on a Nigerian micro-blogging platform, Nairaland, claims that a Nigerian of Igbo dissent, Jude Igwemezie, has recently been awarded a contract worth $500...
A German woman who was accused of being an Islamist extremist and convicted for letting a 5-year-old Yezidi girl die in Iraq, is to face a...
A report by a global terrorism research/analysis group, Jihad Analytics (JA) has placed Nigeria as the second most terrorised/attacked country in the world between Iraq and...
An Iraqi-Kurdish man has been arrested for killing his 15-year-old daughter in an ‘Honour Killing’ on Friday in Soran district in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, police officials...
A 23-year-old transgender woman, Doski Azad, has been executed by her brother in an ‘honour killing’ for allegedly bringing shame to their family. The incident which...
The Prime Minister of Iraq, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, has survived an assassination attempt early on Sunday when his residence in Baghdad was hit in a drone attack,...
United States forces have carried out another round of air strikes against Iran-backed armed militia groups in Iraq and Syria, in a response to drone attacks...
Pope Francis arrived in Iraq on Friday for the first ever papal visit to the Middle Eastern country, a place where the Christian community has dwindled...
The student abductions in northwestern Nigeria reflect the growing strength of criminal gangs and the weakness of the federal government and its security services. Kidnapping is...
At least 28 people were feared dead and 73 others injured as a twin suicide blast ripped through a crowded market in Bagdad, Iraq’s capital in...
The Iraqi authorities have reportedly arrested an ISIS commander, Abdulnasser al-Qirdash, chosen successor to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who was killed in an air raid in 2019...
The Iraqi government on Wednesday confirmed that the Islamic Republic of Iran informed it of plans to carry out an overnight attack on US troops in...
France’s airline Air France said on Wednesday it has suspended flights over Iraq and Iran airspace after Iranian missile strikes hit United States bases in Iraq....
In what may signal the beginning of hostilities in the Middle East, Iran fired at least 22 ground to ground missiles at the United States military...
The Defense Secretary of the United State of America, Mark Esper, has told all who care to listen, that the US is not going to pull...
The State Department has urged American citizens to immediately leave Iraq, citing danger in the aftermath of a U.S. airstrike which killed General Qassem Soleimani, the...
Two soldiers were on Monday killed in a car explosion in Iraq’s western province of Anbar. One army officer was also seriously wounded in the blast...
No less than 300 people, including around 100 foreign women, are on death row in Iraq and hundreds bagged life imprisonment for having links with the...
Four suspects including three policemen and an employee of the Independent High Elections have been arrested in Iraq for setting fire to a storage site housing...
The revised travel ban signed by US President Donald Trump which now targets six mainly Muslim dominated countries except Iraq, is being contested in court after...
The revised travel ban signed by controversial US President Donald Trump has been greeted with protests even as politicians describe the order as ‘un-American’. US civil...
Ahmad Khan Raham, the Afghan-born suspect who was behind the bombings in New York and New Jersey has been portrayed by the US as a jihadist...
Over the weekend in Iraq, 36 men convicted over the 2014 massacre of hundreds of military recruits, were hanged following the country’s prime minister’s recent vow...
Two days after Donald Trump claimed during his south Florida campaign rally that President Barack Obama and his first secretary of state Hillary Clinton were the...
The US Embassy has warned of possible terror attacks on Hotels located at the seaside of the Lagos metropolis. The message was published on the website...
Security operatives in Turkey have arrested 17 suspects, mostly foreigners, in connection with the Ataturk Airport suicide attack which occurred in Istanbul last week claiming the...
Real Madrid have paid their tribute to 16 fans killed by ISIS in Iraq during the UCL final. At least 12 Real Madrid fans were killed...
The Iraqi government is currently facing serious pressure after at least 70 people were killed and over 100 people left injured following a series of bomb...
Social media giants Twitter may soon remove photos and links from its 140-character limit. For years, Twitter users have complained about the fact that link and...
President Barack Obama of the US has told world leaders at the ongoing nuclear summit in Washington DC that there will be deadly consequences if Islamic...
China is showing off its new armed drone helicopter. NORINCO, one of China’s leading defense contractors, is getting in on the international drone export game with...
An attempt by ISIS militants to infiltrate a residential compound near a strategic air base in western Anbar province of Iraq was thwarted by security forces...
The United States embassy in Iraq says “several” Americans have gone missing in the country moments after it was reported by local media that three Americans...
The Iraqi army has declared that the city of Ramadi has been freed from the stronghold of the Islamic State, though there are still pockets of...
The recent heinous executions by ISIS which saw them bomb captives tied to ancient artifacts in Palmyra has led to an offensive against the deadly group....
