Iraq Turmoil

Kurdish peshmerga fighters were caught up in a battle against ISIS forces south of the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

Iraqi TV broadcast video of what it said are Iraqi security forces driving around one sector of the Baiji oil refinery after battling to oust ISIS.

Iraq Defense Ministry video shows the battle on the ground as heavy weapons are used to clear 12 villages of ISIS forces near the Hamreen dam

NBC News' Bill Neely gets a close-up view of a standoff between ISIS militants and Kurdish fighters in Iraq.

Al Qaeda's branches in the Gulf and Northern Africa have issued a rare joint statement calling on warring militants in Iraq and Syria to unite.

In a short visit Wednesday, the top U.S. diplomat will urge Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to take quick steps to ease sectarian tensions.

Britain said on Tuesday it would send machine guns and ammunition to Iraq to help the new government in its battle against ISIS militants.

Iraq's parliament has officially named Haider al-Abadi the country's new prime minister and approved most of his candidates as part of his Cabinet.

The aid dropped off this week in Erbil includes 3,000 family kitchen sets, 6,000 collapsible water containers and 12,000 blankets.

President Obama has authorized another 350 U.S. military personnel to be sent to Iraq, the White House announced on Tuesday evening.

A shooting that killed or injured more than 30 Iraqis during the Iraq war is now in a federal U.S. jury's hands, and is reopening old wounds.

Iraq's outgoing prime minister traveled to a small northern Shiite town Monday, praising its residents for fending off attacks by Sunni militants.

Under fire for not acting more forcefully against ISIS, President Obama hopes to persuade more nations to join the fight.

Senate Intelligence Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein details ISIS’ latest offensive in Iraq.

Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Dianne Feinstein says ISIS is a serious threat.

Richard Engel explains a possible reluctance by the Obama administration to take the fight against ISIS beyond Iraq’s borders.

NBC News analyst says other organizations within Syria could pose a greater threat to the U.S.

Retired general says “boots on the ground” would push ISIS back into Syria.

Retired General Anthony Zinni, says American leadership should be “demonstrated clearly and decisively.”

Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen liberated the town of Amirli on Sunday after a two-month siege by ISIS militants, officials told NBC News.

The Pentagon said humanitarian drops were made over the city of Amirli, where Islamic State fighters have cut off access to the Iraqi city.

Fighter jets and drones attacked five positions being used by the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham near the Mosul Dam.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein discusses the threat of ISIS in an exclusive interview with NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell to air Sunday on Meet the Press.

Obama took heat for saying there's no strategy yet to combating the militant group ISIS, but there remain a number of options at his disposal.

The United States' fight against ISIS in Iraq has cost an average of $7.5 million per day since it began in mid-June — for a total of $500 million.

President Obama discusses whether his administration will work with Congress on a plan to defeat ISIS militants in the Mideast.

President Obama talks about the efforts to stop ISIS militants from advancing in Iraq.

President Barack Obama talks about U.S. efforts to stop the ISIS militant group from expanding.

President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that destroying “a cancer” like the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham will not be easy.

The Iraqi military evacuates families from the town of Amerli Monday as ISIS militants reportedly closed in on the area.

A U.S. court on Monday threw out an order to seize some 1 million barrels of disputed Iraqi Kurdish crude oil from a tanker near Texas.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest says the Obama administration is "closely monitoring" the ISIS militant group.

Gen. Martin Dempsey said that there is no evidence that ISIS is a threat to the U.S. homeland or Europe.

Rep. Mike Rogers talks about the threat ISIS poses to the U.S. and its interests.

NBC News foreign correspondent Richard Engel offers perspective on U.S. strategy in Iraq.

The Meet the Press roundtable discusses ISIS’ capabilities, as well as the optics of presidential vacations.

British officials say they might have found the English-accented jihadist who murdered U.S. journalist James Foley in a video released last week. NBC’s Keir Simmons reports.

Bombings in two Iraqi cities left at least 30 people dead on Saturday, a day after 60 were killed in an attack by Shiite militia at a Sunni mosque.

A suicide car bomb rammed into Baghdad’s intelligence headquarters Saturday, killing at least eight people and injuring 11, police said.

The extremist group remains a specter in Iraq and Syria, where it is trying to establish an Islamic State under Shariah law.

At least 30 Sunni Muslims were killed after prayers Friday when a Shiite militia opened fire at a mosque in Iraq, security sources said.

Any local who shows an Iraqi ID card in Mosul will have it confiscated and replaced, two sources told NBC News.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel talks about the threat ISIS poses to the U.S. and the world.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the U.S. military involvement in Iraq isn't over because ISIS "clearly poses a long-term threat."

Is the goal of U.S. campaign to defeat ISIS? And, if so, for how long will it continue? Analysis from NBC News' Chief Global Correspondent Bill Neely.

The leaflets called ISIS an "ignorant atheist expansion," and told citizens "it is time that we all stand together on the land of our sacred city."

Suspected militants loyal to ISIS bought bomb-making material ahead of a proposed attack on a Carlsberg brewery, according to a Malaysian official.

U.S. officials estimate the number of U.S. citizens who have joined Islamic extremist group is small, but acknowledge that they can't say for sure.

The request was described as under consideration by the Pentagon.

The strikes were launched after ISIS released a video purporting the show the beheading of an American journalist.

NBC News' Bill Neely was taken on tour of the Mosul dam by the Peshmergas one day after Iraqis and Kurdish forces drove out ISIS militants.

British television releases video of what it claims are three ISIS fighters captured by Kurdish forces in an undisclosed location in Iraq.

Kurdish intelligence chief Masrour Barzani, son of the president of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, described the dam as a “nuclear weapon.”

Invigorated by United States airstrikes, the Iraqi army is pushing to retake the town of Tikrit from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

After renewed U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, NBC News’ Bill Neely reports follows in the tracks of ISIS militants on their retreat from Mosul dam.

President Obama talks about U.S. military efforts in Iraq against ISIS.

Iraqi and Kurdish forces have retaken a strategically important dam near Mosul on Monday after two days of airstrikes.

The pontiff said an intervention strategy in Iraq must be discussed by the international community and not decided by one country.

The Kurdish Peshmerga fire rockets at ISIS militants in the aftermath of U.S. airstrikes. Kurdish fighters hope to regain control of the Mosul Dam.

The bombing raids wiped out nine fighting positions held by Islamic militants, officials said.

American warplanes helped Iraqi and Kurdish forces dislodge Islamist militants from a key dam in a fierce battle that stretched across 30 miles.

Iraq's army spokesman said the troops were backed by aerial support but he didn't specify whether there were U.S. airstrikes during the battle.

Assad Haig lost 63 relatives to ISIS - but his grandmother escaped. This is her story.

Kurdish militants in Syria have trained hundreds of Yazidi volunteers to fight Islamic State forces in Iraq.

NBC’s Chief Global Correspondent Bill Neely reports on whether or not the President’s decision not to bomb Syria is having an impact in Iraq today.

Kurdish forces took over parts of Iraq's largest dam on Sunday less than two weeks after it was captured by ISIS, Kurdish security officials said.

MTP roundtable discusses the U.S.’s strategy to combat ISIS in the Middle East.

Abu Saif, a former chef in Belgium, has landed in Syria with hopes of joining ISIS and moving on to fight in Iraq. He spoke to NBC News about his jihad journey.

Officials said FA-18 fighter bombers were launching airstrikes and offering cover to Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting to retake Mosul Dam.

A world away from the turmoil in Iraq, the largest concentration of Yazidis in the United States worries for relatives fleeing from ISIS militants.

ITN’s John Irvine looks into the human cost of Islamic State’s campaign on minorities.

Voice of America journalist and Yazidi activist Dakhil Shammo on the situation in Iraq between Yazidi faithful and ISIS militants.

Embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has agreed to step aside and support his nominated replacement.

President Obama talks about U.S. military efforts to help displaced Yazidi refugees in the Sinjar Mountains.

President Obama said air strikes and humanitarian aid have “greatly improved” the situation for Yazidis trapped on a mountain in northern Iraq

Ghanni Hannada is among 80,000 people who have fled the brutal Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to the safe haven of Erbil in the past week.

Nine Moroccan citizens were arrested as part of a suspected network suspected of recruiting fighters for ISIS.

Hundreds of refugees demonstrated in hopes of drawing attention from the world and asking for more supplies and better care.

U.S. Special Forces have landed on Iraq’s Mt. Sinjar as the U.N. declares the Iraq humanitarian crisis has reached its highest level of emergency.

Thousands of Yazidi refugees stranded on Mt. Sinjar have made their way to a refugee camp near the Syria border.

Special Operations forces in northern Iraq have landed on top of the Sinjar Mountains to assess the possibility of a mission to rescue Yazidi refugees

The helicopter was carrying aid to stranded Yazidis in the Sinjar mountains of northern Iraq when it crashed on Tuesday, killing the pilot and injuring other passengers, including a Yazidi member of Parliament and a New York Times journalist.

Posts on social media showing pro-ISIS leaflets reportedly handed out on London's streets have drawn the attention of British police.

France did not specify what weapons it was sending

President Barack Obama has sent 130 U.S. military advisers to northern Iraq as part of an effort to help minority sects being threatened by ISIS.

As the ISIS threat continues to spread, some Kurdish commanders battling ISIS are now uniting with the Iraqi army against a common enemy.

ISIS militants killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority in northern Iraq and scattered tens of thousands.

The U.S. military said it carried out one airstrike on ISIS forces in Iraq on Tuesday as part of its mission to help protect thousands of Yazidi.

A journalist for The New York Times was hurt, the newspaper reported.

Iraq's PM Nouri al-Maliki, ordered security forces not intervene in the country’s political crisis amid fears that he might cling to power.

It started as a supply run for a Kurdish army garrison, but it turned into a dramatic rescue mission faced with impossible choices.

ITV's John Irvine captures the dramatic rescue of a group of Yazidi refugees from the top of Mount Sinjar in Iraq.

John Kerry's comments follow a statement from President Obama that Iraq had taken "a promising step forward" in designating a new prime minister.