Shafaq News/ A group of militants affiliated with the terrorist organization of ISIS reportedly abducted five shepherds from a village located in southern Kirkuk earlier today, Thursday.

A source told Shafaq News Agency that the abductees were tending a flock of sheep in a pasture near the village of al-Tamour when they were attacked by the

Shafaq News/ A Yazidi teenager returned to his family in Sinjar two months after being kidnapped by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

A local source told Shafaq News Agency that "the Kurdistan Workers' Party had kidnapped the young man and moved him to the Qandil Mountains to train him to become a fighter in its ranks."

"Idel Khalil Khalaf, 17,

Shafaq News/ Iraq's caretaker Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, received the Australian ambassador for Counter-Terrorism, Roger Noble, in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, earlier today, Thursday.

According to a readout issued by Al-Kadhimi's office, the meeting was attended by Australia's ambassador to Iraq, Paula Elizabeth Ganly.

Al-Kadhimi discussed

Shafaq News/ Diyala has completed the first phase of the plan devised to secure the villages of al-Abbara, northeast Baqubah, Diyala's capital city, al-Abbara administrator Shaker Mazen al-Tamimi said on Thursday.

In a statement to Shafaq News Agency, al-Tamimi said, "the security authorities installed thermographic surveillance cameras in twelve