On 10 July 2017, Iraq declared victory over Islamic State (IS) in Mosul, following a gruelling ten-month offensive led by a 100,000-strong alliance of Iraqi government units, Kurdish Peshmerga fighter ...

The History and Development of Islam Islam is the Arabic word for *submission', in the sense of surrendering to God's will. It is the religion of about 1.6 billion people around the globe as of 2010, ...

In an interview with the newspaper Global Post on 14 October 2014, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said his country was determined to destroy the Islamic State, commonly known today as IS, but he ...