Beirut blast killed Lebanese security officer
The explosion happened at around midnight near an army checkpoint and a…
Kerry in Iraq as Sunni militants seize strategic town, airport
Kerry met with Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and was to hold talks…
Iraq militants ‘turning back clock’ in captured Mosul
Security forces in Mosul wilted in the face of the onslaught, in…
Fahmy rejects ‘barbaric acts’ in Iraq
Arab League Council rejects interference in Iraqi affairs, calls for reconciliation through…
Obama rules out sending troops as cleric calls Iraqis to arms
Washington spent billions of dollars training and equipping Iraqi security forces before…
Suspected jihadists seize Iraq’s Nineveh province
Military units first withdrew from the city’s east, heading to its west,…
Iran president visits Turkey hoping to fix troubled ties
Rouhani will meet his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep…
Bomb attacks on Kurd party kill 17 in latest Iraq unrest
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, though suicide bombings are a…
Nine dead in Iraq attacks as unrest spikes
South of Baghdad, a roadside bomb near a secondary school in Mahmudiyah…
Baghdad bombs against Shi’a kill 25
At least nine car bombs went off throughout the morning, when the…