A drone was intercepted late on Thursday near Erbil airport, which houses US-led anti-jihadist coalition troops in Iraq’s ...

The Iraqi government offensive against Islamic State fighters in the city of Tikrit, Iraq, is seeing some success. The largely Sunni city has been held by Islamists since last June.

In June 2007, all 10 army divisions will be under the control of the Iraqi Ground Forces Command. "They will be in receipt of additional armored protected mobility," Dempsey said.

Al-Abadi's announcement comes at a time when Iraqi ground forces backed by U.S.-led coalition air support are gaining territory against IS, most recently in Iraq's vast western Anbar province.

The U.S. has also sent 475 military trainers to Iraq, Tom says. "They will join a few hundred trainers already there," he explains. "They will be setting up in centers in Irbil and Baghdad," he adds.

WASHINGTON – Three of every four allied airstrikes are now targeting Republican Guard forces that stand between advancing columns of U.S. ground troops and Saddam Hussein's government, a top ...

The Iraqi Ground Forces Command now controls 11 Iraqi army infantry divisions and one mechanized division with more than 160,000 trained troops. The corps-level command took control of its first ...

New details on Iraqi ground offensive to retake Mosul. — -- U.S. military officials believe that the Iraqi offensive to retake Mosul from the militant group ISIS could come as early as April ...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces battled Sunday to secure the country's second-largest dam from Islamic State militants after U.S. airstrikes opened the way for a ground offensive, marking an expansion of ...

Iraqi forces have launched a ground offensive to drive out an estimated 500-to-2000 Islamic State militants inside the city of Fallujah, where some 50,000 civilians appear to be trapped.

Iraqi security forces will probably not be able to recapture ground they have lost to Islamist militants without assistance, the top U.S. military officer said on Thursday.

Before ground troops invaded on March 20, coalition forces targeted Iraq's early warning sites from the skies on March 19. It was the prelude to "shock and awe." The Iraq War started 20 years ago.