IRAQ

The United States donated $5 billion to the coalition fighting Boko Haram militants.

Touting his experience as governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, the son and brother of former presidents, announced Monday he is running for president of the United States.

Sequestration, which largely applied to defense and domestic spending, began in March 2013 and is expected to continue until 2021.

The Islamic State group indicated Talha Asmal, 17, was one of four suicide bombers who attacked Iraqi security forces near an oil refinery.

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"The problem is the history of U.S. military involvement in Iraq, which caused over 1 million deaths," a professor and author said.

An apparently imminent attack on Fallujah could give ISIS control of a strategic swath of land that stretches all the way to Baghdad.

Shia-majority Iran is now providing arms and funds to the Taliban, a hard-line Sunni group, according to a report.

The U.S. is leading an aerial campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria since last August.

In a Moscow speech, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his country was united with the Islamic world.

The real problem is coordinating the three main groups fighting the Islamic State group.

"You can't negotiate with an entity like this," Australian Prime Minister Abbott said at this year's regional anti-jihadist summit.

"Above all, we need idealistic young people to appreciate that joining this death cult is an utterly misguided and wrong-headed way to express their desire to sacrifice."

According to a report from the Guardian, ISIS has drained recruits and money from al Qaeda, whose leadership has been cut off from its commanders.

David Moore is refusing to grant a permit for a block party sponsored by director Spike Lee.

Russia added the most oil and gas reserves during the past year while the U.S. overtook it as the top energy producer, oil company BP said on Wednesday in its benchmark annual review of world energy.

Roughly 70 percent of Christian families who fled the violence of the Iraq War had their property illegally confiscated, claims a Baghdad city official.

Russians and citizens of other former Soviet nations are flocking to ISIS, says a top Syrian Muslim leader.

"I didn't want him to go but I didn't have a choice in the matter," said his mother, Donna.

Just weeks after ISIS captured Ramadi, the U.S. is sending hundreds more military advisers to Iraq to help defeat the militant group.

The fight against the Islamic State group is faltering, hampered by Sunni soldiers in the army who feel no loyalty to the new Iraqi government.