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The Iraqi army retook Saddam Hussein's home village overnight, a symbolic victory in its struggle to seize back swathes of…

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has appointed Prince Khaled bin Bandar as head of intelligence three months after his predecessor, who…

Newly elected Iraqi lawmakers convene on Tuesday, under pressure to name a unity government to keep the country from splitting…

Militant Islamist fighters held a parade in Syria's northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after…

Photograph and satellite imagery indicate that Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgents have carried out mass executions…

Militants took a town an hour from Baghdad that is home to four natural gas fields on Thursday, another gain…

US Secretary of State John Kerry was in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday to urge its leaders not to withdraw from…

The strategic Shia-majority north Iraq town of Tal Afar and its airport were in the hands of Sunni Arab militants…

An al Qaeda splinter group thrust east from a newly-captured Iraqi-Syrian border post on Sunday, taking three towns in the…

Iraqi forces were massing north of Baghdad on Friday, aiming to strike back at Sunni Islamists whose drive toward the…