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US send approximately six hundred extra troops to Iraq to help it in the recapture of the city of Mosul. This is by far the largest city in the hands of terrorist group Islamic State.

German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen has Iraq Thursday extended support promised in the fight against Islamic State. ' I can on behalf of Germany only say that we are on your side, because you also fight on our behalf against terror, '' she said during a lightning visit to Baghdad. ' We will continue to help you in the best way. \'

The Iraqi army has Shirqat town near the city of Mosul million retaken by Islamic State. Thus authority in Baghdad comes one step closer Mosul, the second largest city va country which IS in the hands of terrorist movement since 2014.

Warriors Islamic State may have fired a poison gas grenade on US and Iraqi troops in northern Iraq. US military personnel stationed remained unharmed in the affected military base, said a US military official.

The Iraqi army on Tuesday began an operation to retake the town of Shirqat in the north of Iraq Islamic State. The ultimate goal is to expel the terrorist group from its northern stronghold of Mosul.

France prepares to support an offensive by the Iraqi army against the terrorist group Islamic State in Mosul. Artillery pieces to be shipped to Iraq and also the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is being prepared, said Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian Tuesday.

Not only terrorist organization Islamic State puts children to fight, would also recruit child soldiers its opponents in Iraq.

Sunnis in Iraq should always be reduced further to prepare for a prolonged guerrilla now Islamic State by the Iraqi army and its allies. That al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said Thursday.

Iraqi forces have liberated IS from the hands of the city Kajara. The IS fighters were expelled Thursday from the town, 60 kilometers south of the IS stronghold Mosul is located.

The United Nations preparing for a huge influx of refugees if the Iraqi army proceeds with an offensive to recapture the city of Mosul in the group Islamic State.

With the conquest of several Iraqi villages that were held by Islamic State Kurdish troops have come closer Mosul Sunday. The second city of Iraq a few years ago there were still almost two million inhabitants, is already under the control of IS since June 2014. But a force where some five thousand Peshmergastrijders belong, is advancing towards the main IS stronghold.

A 26-year-old man from the Belgian Verviers has blown up in Iraq. The former military Lotfi Aoumeur surfaced earlier in propaganda films of terrorist Islamic State.

Possibly one million people will be in the coming weeks and months in Iraq to flee because of the fighting around the city of Mosul. The Red Cross has raised this Friday. The international aid organization is working to raise more money to help in Iraq. Assistance to Iraqis is the third-largest operation of the Red Cross.

France and the US are preparing a joint attack for terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) in the Iraqi city of Mosul. That explained a spokeswoman for the French government on Wednesday.

British journalist John Cantlie, which is being held hostage since 2012 by jihadists, is to see a new propaganda video by Islamic State (IS). The video talks about the hostage bombing at the University of Mosul, British media reported Wednesday.

The Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook announced Friday that its slain by air attacks in and around Mosul two leaders of Islamic State. It is among others to Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari, the Minister of Defence of the terrorist organization.

After Fallujah is now a plan in the works to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State. That Brett McGurk, the special envoy of President Obama (USA) said the fight against terror, Tuesday.

It IS Amaq affiliated news agency reports that Abu Bakr al-Bahgdadi would be slain during an airstrike in Raqqa. This city is considered the capital of IS.

Islamic State has put a video online which shows how a 3000 year old temple is inflated in the Assyrian city of Nimrud. It is the latest attack on archaeological and cultural heritage sites conducting the terrorist movement.

Iraqi government troops in their siege of the occupied Fallujah by Islamic State encountered a mass grave. The quarry contains about 400 corpses, told an Iraqi soldier. It would mainly go by IS murdered prisoner of war.

The Syrian army is the province of Raqqa invaded during an offensive backed by Russia against Islamic State. That the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Saturday on the authority of witnesses.

When air attacks on the western Iraqi city of Fallujah, the US has in recent days more than seventy warriors terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) slain, including the local commander Maher al-Bilawi. That said the spokesman for the US military in Iraq, Steve Warren, Friday.

More and more people flee to Syria from Mosul, the major city in northern Iraq, which is in the hands of terrorist group Islamic State. Only in May 4200 already attracted people from Mosul to Syria, says UN refugee agency UNHCR on Friday. It is feared that this number will go up to 50,000.

Terror movement Islamic State Tuesday at various locations in northern Iraq, the attack on Kurdish fighters. They managed to break through the lines of the peshmerga and take in a town a short time, said the Kurdish authorities in the area.

A leader of Islamic State Monday just south of the Iraqi city of Mosul slain by US commandos and Kurdish terrorism forces.

US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter arrived Monday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. He comes with US commanders and members of the Iraqi government to discuss how recent successes can be developed against the extremist group Islamic State.

A sixteen year old teenager from Sweden to the field of Islamic State (IS) had traveled, was saved by Kurdish forces in Mosul in northern Iraq. Special units of the Kurds IS rescue from the hands of the girl last week, reported the Kurdish authorities on Tuesday.

In the fight against Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria will have to bet the coalition ground forces led by the United States to book some victories. It said US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter Friday in Davos, Switzerland. The US has so far that it would not put ground troops in.

An estimated 3,500 people, including many women and children, are being held as slaves by the Islamic State in Iraq.

In an air raid on the city Barwana in western Iraq, a senior member of terrorist group Islamic State slain. That the Iraqi Ministry of Defense reported Saturday. It would be Asi Ali Mohammad Nasir al-Obaidi. He was the second deputy to the manager of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.