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The UN atomic agency said on Thursday it believed nuclear material Iraq said had been seized by insurgents was "low…

Iraqi security forces found the bodies Wednesday of 53 men who had been bound and executed in a confessionally mixed…

A 12-year-old girl has been killed and eight other civilians wounded in an Iraqi airstrike on a Kurdish-held town in…

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition should withdraw its support for his third term bid and pick another candidate, urged…

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…