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• Iraqi Police Confirm Three Missing Individuals are US Citizens

  Three US citizens have been reported to be kidnapped in Baghdad. The Iraqi police today confirmed the news about the three US nationals that have gone missing in Baghdad a few days ago.

• Iraq's new premier battles to unite a fractured nation

  Three months after he took office with a mission to unite his broken, warring country, Iraq's new prime minister has swept away the divisive legacy of his predecessor with a burst of rapid and dramatic measures.

• U.S. military chief says battle with IS starting to turn

  The United States' top military officer told American troops on a surprise visit to Baghdad on Saturday that the momentum in the battle with Islamic State was "starting to turn", but predicted a drawn-out campaign lasting several years.

• After victory in key Iraqi town, time for revenge

  After helping government forces break Islamic State's grip over a strategic town just south of Baghdad on Saturday, Shi'ite militias decided it was time for payback.

• Who runs the militant group Islamic State?

  Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group, has seized a third of Syria and large areas of Iraq and this year proclaimed a caliphate across the two countries in the heart of the Middle East.

• In rare alliance, Shi'ites join Sunnis to defend Iraqi towns

  When Islamic State fighters tried to storm the Tigris River town of Dhuluiya north of Baghdad this week, they were repelled by a rare coalition of Sunni tribal fighters inside the town and Shi'ites in its sister city Balad on the opposite bank.

• Australia seeks broad new security powers after anti-terror raids

  Australia's government is seeking broad new security powers to combat what it says is a rising threat from militant Islamists, the prime minister said on Monday, on the heels of sweeping counter-terrorism raids last week.

• Iraqi parliament approves new government headed by Haider al-Abadi

  Iraq's parliament approved a new government headed by Haider al-Abadi as prime minister on Monday night, in a bid to rescue Iraq from collapse, with sectarianism and Arab-Kurdish tensions on the rise.

• Iraq refiles case in U.S. court over disputed Kurdish crude

  Iraq has refiled in U.S. court to gain control of $100 million of Kurdish crude oil on a tanker near Texas, days after the court ruled it lacked jurisdiction to seize the cargo but said it could hear arguments over who is the oil's rightful owner.

• U.N. accuses Islamic State of mass killings

  The United Nations condemned on Monday "appalling, widespread" crimes by Islamic State forces in Iraq, including mass executions of prisoners that could amount to war crimes.